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CQ.com
Provides discussion of issues and legislation of interest to the U. S. Congress. Includes full-text coverage of CQ Weekly from 1983 to the present. The full text of congressional bills can be searched.
Criminal Justice Collection
Provides access to 150 journals and 16 reference works related to the fields of law and law enforcement. (Some full-text)
Directory of Open Access Journals
List of free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly online journals. Covers journals for all subjects, in all languages. (Full text)
Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia designed to meet the reseach needs of elementary, middle and high school students. (Full-text)
InfoTrac Criminal Justice
Focuses on law, law enforcement, and security. (Some full-text)
InfoTrac Environmental Studies & Policies Collection
A collection of nearly 200 journals covering environmental issues and policies. (Some full-text)
InfoTrac Insurance & Liability Collection
A collection of nearly 40 journals for the insurance field, covering such topics as labor relations, mortgage banking, legal issues, and more. (Some full-text)
Legal Collection
Provides full text for nearly 250 scholarly law journals. (Full-text).
United States Government Manual
Provides information on the legislative, judicial, and executive branches, as well as quasi-official agencies; international organizations; and boards, commissions, and committees. (Full-text)
Multi-subject Databases Recommended for
Law & Criminal Justice Research
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
(Some full text)
Academic Search Complete
Provides more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals, with indexing and abstracts for 10,900 publications. Content goes back as far as 1865. Covers many academic disciplines including art, music, literature, history, sociology, psychology, government, and science. (Some full-text)
General Reference Center Gold
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)
InfoTrac OneFile
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social sciences, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.
JSTOR
Includes articles from over 300 research journals covering a wide range of academic fields. (Full-text)
Project Muse
This multi-purpose database offers the full text of over 300 scholarly journals covering the humanities, arts, and social sciences. (Full-text)
ProQuest Direct
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)
SIRS Knowledge Source
A suite of databases providing access to periodical articles, reference materials, pictures, government documents, and selected Internet sites, related to a wide range of topics. (Full-text)
Wilson OmniFile
A general purpose database that includes the full text of many magazines and journals from a number of fields and disciplines. Good for popular, current event, opinion-oriented, practical, and how-to topics. (Some full-text)

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