Proquest/CSA
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ProQuest Research Library
ProQuest Research Library provides instant access to thousands of general reference titles. The material covers all general reference subject areas, including:
• Arts
• Business and finance
• Children’s interest
• Consumer affairs
• Health
• Humanities
• Legal studies
• Military studies
• Popular literature
• Women’s interest
ProQuest Research Library is designed to cover the top 150 core academic subject areas—and cover them extensively—so not only is it an invaluable database for a number of different academic disciplines, it's also accessible to readers and researchers at every level.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts, published by SAGE, presents comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Prepared in cooperation with the Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University Law Library, Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.
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Criminal Justice Periodical Index
The publications indexed in ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals Index (CJPI) provide research support for professionals in law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security. The focus of most publications is practical, rather than theoretical. CJPI includes abstracts and indexing for more than 235 titles, as well as full text and/or full image for over 80 of those titles. Indexing dates from 1981 onwards, abstracts from 1999 onwards, and full text and/or full image from 1994 onwards (earlier for some titles).
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Education Journals incorporates every education and education-related title in the ProQuest databases. Over 640 journals are indexed and abstracted, more than 350 are provided in full text and page image. Education Complete includes not only the standard journals for educators at all levels but also periodicals for professionals in related fields including AIDS education, human development, child abuse, and developmental psychology.
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Philosopher's Index
The Philosopher's Index is a bibliographic database with informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology, and book reviews published by The Philosopher's Information Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to serving philosophers founded in 1967. The Philosopher's Index monitors over 550 journals from more than 40 countries and is updated quarterly. Extensive indexing includes personal and proper names along with subject terms. It also offers the capability to search for the authors of book reviews.
PsycARTICLES
ProQuest offers an interface to PsycARTICLES, a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. The database includes all substantive material from the print journals but does not include nonarticle content such as ads, covers, editorial board lists, and the like. PsycARTICLES is recognized worldwide as a leading full text source for academic, research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines. Featuring a continuously growing number of significant and highly regarded periodicals, PsycARTICLES is an unmatched resource for information in behavioral science.
PsycINFO
ProQuest offers an interface to The American Psychological Association's PsycINFO database, which is the comprehensive international bibliographic database of psychology. It contains citations and summaries of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports, all in the field of psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1806 to present, includes international material selected from more than 2,450 periodicals from more than 49 countries written in 29 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to present. Over 80,000 records are added annually through weekly updates. More than 36 million references in over 870,000 journal articles, books, and book chapters; retrospective to 2001 and earlier, where available; more than 3.2 million references from 1920 to 2000.
Safari® Select (for Academic and Public Libraries) is an online collection of over 530 technical e-books from the world's top IT publishers including exclusive access to books from O'Reilly Media and Pearson Technology Group. Safari Select covers the top subjects in the area of popular computing and electronics, ranging from desktop software to digital photography. Patrons often ask for information on setting up a wireless network at home, which iPod they should choose, or where they can learn more about their home PC or Mac.
