CJS 211: Policing in America (Bailey): Finding Articles

Articles & More

• Start searching for articles here (searches 80 databases at once).
• Use limiters - peer-reviewed, subject, date, etc.  
• Use "Cite" tool on the right to create an APA citation.
• "Research Starter" provides a topic overview.
• To share this article, copy the Permalink on the right in the item record. (not the browser URL)

Watch:  Articles & More (Burke, 3 min., 2018)

Need a Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed Journal Article?  Who writes them?  Why?  Where do you find one?

• Peer Review in 3 Minutes (NCSU Libraries) 
• Anatomy of a Scholarly Article  (NCSU Libraries)

Use these sources to find more information on the topics you are researching, or to discover topics that interest you:

Research guides - more databases and other information sources on the topic in the title

• Criminal Justice Studies
• Criminology

E-Reference Books for topic ideas related to Criminal Justice:

• Profiling and Criminal Justice in America.
• World of Forensic Science 

“And”, “Or”, “Not” (Boolean Operators): Use the words to narrow or expand your search results. For Example:

• “automobiles” AND “accidents” will return results that contain BOTH of the terms.
• “juvenile” OR “adolescent” OR “teenager” will return results that contain at least one of the terms. Useful for words with similar meanings.
• “cinderella” NOT “rock band” will return results that do NOT include the 1980’s rock band, Cinderella.

Use an * at the end of a root word to find all variations of that word. For example, “child*” will search for “child,” “children,” “childhood,” and “children's.”

Brainstorm words or concepts that are similar in meaning and use those as search terms. If you find a good resource, look at the “Subject Headings” or “Descriptors” listed and use those as additional search terms.

Bibliographies/References/Works Cited pages are great ways to find additional resources. You can search the library’s Catalogs and/or Databases.

When you search a database for a "Full Text" item, you are only searching through that particular database for the document in full-text, and not our entire collection.  An item may exist as a "Full Text" selection within a different database.

If you don't find an item as full-text in the database you're searching, use the "Find It" button to cross-search other databses for that same item.  You may discover that we have electronic access to that material after all.