LibGuides: Criminal Justice: Specialized Databases

Database Tutorial Videos

Gale Academic OneFile A series of short videos demonstrating the search features for Gale Academic OneFile database.
Nexis Uni Homepage Search Video This short Nexis Uni™ video will address using Boolean connectors and filtering options when conducting a search.
ProQuest Overview Collection of 5 short videos on using the ProQuest database - Basic Search, Advanced Search, Publications Search, Search Results & Thesaurus

Specialized Databases

To see all NU Library Databases, go to the A-Z Database List.

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Content: Material from Federal, State, international, and private sources related to security policy, strategy, and management. The content is primarily current with some historical material.
Purpose: Informs users about current topics related to homeland security and national defense.
Special Features: Informs users about current topics related to homeland security and national defense
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Content: Contains resources for research on national security. Topics include regional conflicts, civil liberties, criminal justice, disaster & recovery, public health threats, cyber security, risk management, bio-terrorism, and more.
Purpose: Provides users with information and resources relevant to many topics pertaining to international security and terrorism
Special Features: Includes a tool for discovering citing articles, a browsable index of subject terms, and text-to-speech feature for some articles.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Content: Database supporting business and legal research.
Purpose: News, journals, and company profiles and directories for both public and private companies.
Special Features: U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to the 1790s, New York Times articles, Cases, Law Reviews, Company & Country Information, and much more.
Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Content: Law school students only. Primary and analytical law sources, news, trade publications, company information, and more.
Purpose: Use to search legal cases, codes, and other information.

Castext
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Fastcase
Cases, statutes, court roles, constitutions

HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Content: Traditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations.
Purpose: Informs users about a broad range of legal and governmental topics.
Special Features: Users can narrow by topic and subject and may also search particular databases.