CoLPS: Forensic Science Resources

Content: Scholarly journals, academic content, periodicals and videos covering a broad range of academic disciplines.

Purpose: A good starting point for research with coverage across many disciplines and fields.

Special Features: Text-to-speech listening feature. Tool to help discover citing articles.

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Content: Database of open access, peer-reviewed journals specializing in biomedicine and life sciences.

Purpose: Database for science and medical students.

Special Features: Easily browse by journal, however, there is no advanced searching functionality.

Content: Essential references on crisis management and negotiation methods, arson and homicide investigation, expert witnessing, forensic pathology and toxicology, and cybercrime.

Purpose: Provides work from criminologists and forensic practitioners on a variety of criminal justice topics.

Special Features: You can print or save one chapter or section at a time, up to 50 chapters in one day.

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.

Contents: Contains bibliographic information and abstracts of more than 230,000 collection resources and over 80,000 online materials, including all known OJP works.

Purpose: The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is an Office of Justice Programs (OJP) resource offering information to support research, policy, and program development.

Special Features: Searchable by government office, date, grant number, and more.