LibGuides: UMass Lowell Library Resources on Racism in the United States: Library Databases

Newspapers

Boston Globe (1980-present) This link opens in a new window
Authoritative coverage of local, national and international news, from one of the newspapers of record for Massachusetts. Detailed indexing with subjects, companies, people, products, and geographic areas. Includes editorials, editorial cartoons, obituaries, and letters to the editor.

Coverage: Full text Jan 1, 1980-present
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
A key resource for regional, national, and international news, especially useful for business, including company and market information, and political science research. Also a major resource for legal information such as case law, law reviews, codes and regulations, and patents. Coverage from 1800 – current.

Databases

Global Issues In Context This link opens in a new window
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, hot topics, and current events, through issue and country portals that bring together specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health, and cultural issues. Gateway pages include overviews, unique "perspectives" articles written by local experts, primary source and statistical information, and rich multimedia like podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.
Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Abstracts from journals, books, reports, and dissertations related to criminology.
Coverage: 1968 - current
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, dissertations, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
Criminal Justice Collection This link opens in a new window
Full-text content from over 700 journals.
Coverage: 1980 - current
This database contains nearly 5 million articles focused on all aspects of the criminal justice field. Publications include: American Criminal Law Review, Corrections Today, Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Ethics, Forensic Examiner, Psychology Today, and much more!
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
Indexing and full text across a wide range of Criminal Justice subjects.
Coverage: 1981-current
ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals is a comprehensive database supporting research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends. As well as U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. The database includes abstract and indexing for 250 titles, with more than 100 available in full-text.

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