Databases
- ProQuest Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new windowProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. In addition to scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice.
- HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline contains core legal journals and law review publications.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowAbstract and citation database of scholarly literature in psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences. Includes journal articles, books, reports, theses, and dissertations from 1806 to present.
- ProQuest Social Science database This link opens in a new windowThis database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work and sociology.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowTo set preferences to USC, click on Scholar Preferences. Next enter USC into the search box, and click Find Library. Select University of Southern California, then click Save Preferences.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCore collections of social science, humanities, and science journals with some backfiles dating backing to early 1800s.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowTo increase the relevancy of your results try navigating to the Social Sciences Citation Index within Web of Science.
- Nexis Uni (formerly LEXIS/NEXIS Academic) This link opens in a new windowFull text business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources. Database of full text online news, business, financial, legal, medical, biographical, government and domestic and international newspaper resources.
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- Developing Keywords - USC Libraries Tutorial
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