CoLPS: Criminal Justice

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

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.

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.

Content: Primary and analytical law sources, news, trade publications, company information, and more.

Purpose: Use to search legal cases, codes, and other information.

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.

Content: A reference database useful for accessing scholarly definitions, background and contextual information. Subjects covered include art, biography, business, economics, education, history, literature, music, psychology, religion, and science and technology.

Purpose: An excellent starting point for brainstorming a research topic and building out your initial search terms list.

Special Features: Mindmap; related articles; image search

Content: Ebooks with coverage across all academic disciplines. The collection offers a critical mass of more than 150,000 foundational scholarly ebooks with balanced quantity and quality to improve teaching, learning and research workflow and outcomes.

Purpose: Provides access to multidisciplinary ebooks for download or to be read online.

Special Features: Browse by subject option; highlight and take notes in text.

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Content: Reference sources, primarily books but also videos and business cases. 

Purpose: Use for finding reference sources like encyclopedias and handbooks that provide contextual or explanatory material. 

Special Features: Includes Sage Navigator