Director of Collections Strategies & Services
Resources
- MerlotConsists of tens of thousands of discipline-specific learning materials, learning exercises, and Content Builder webpages, together with associated comments, and bookmark collections, all intended to enhance the teaching experience of using a learning material.
- NCJA ResourcesFree webinars, community websites and grant funding opportunities from the National Criminal Justice Association.
- OER CommonsA digital commons of OER course content including textbooks, videos, labs, illustrations, assessments, students guides and more.
Databases
- Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Contains magazine and journal articles on criminology, law enforcement, and criminal law. - National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides summaries of important law enforcement and criminal justice publications. - International Security & Counter Terrorism Center This link opens in a new window
Open source intelligence resource of scholarly writings, commentaries, and reviews Information on security and counter-terrorism issues. - Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides coverage of 500 journals in topics like emotional & behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, and mental processes. - APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
Psychological literature coverage includes journals, books, dissertations and technical reports, with coverage from 1872. - Sociological Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers information in all areas of sociology from 1965 to present. Includes or has links to full text. - SocINDEX This link opens in a new window
Sociology research database of full text journal articles, books, and conference papers. - Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Multidisciplinary resource that includes journals, magazines, books, reports and proceedings. Contains over 10,000 titles, some coverage from 1880s to the present. - UDiscover This link opens in a new window
A search tool that lets you retrieve all types of research sources with one search. If you're looking for a variety of sources on your topic, or you're just getting started, UDiscover can help you access more information at once than ever before. It has a Google-like relevancy ranking, but helps you locate scholarly resources.
Statistics Sources
- ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
Archive of digital social science data. - Statista This link opens in a new window
Collection of statistics and studies on over 600 global industries. - Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Note: access is available for content that predates 12/31/21; any content from 01/01/2022 - present is unavailable. A dynamic tool to scan and search the contents of billions of datasets from the United States. Compare and contrast variables of interest and create customized views in tables, maps, rankings, and charts. Views also include descriptive summaries of the datasets and data sources. Datasets cover a wide range of subjects – including business, finance, banking, economics, sociology, political science, demography, agriculture, education, international studies, criminal justice, housing and construction, labor and employment, energy resources and industries, and more.
