Research Guides: Criminology, Law & Society: Home

Remote Access - VPN

Remote (off campus) access to the UC Irvine Libraries' licensed online resources is available to current UC Irvine students, faculty & staff.

OIT Help Center: 115 Aldrich Hall. After hours assistance is available via the 24/7 phone help line 949.824.2222 or oit@uci.edu

OIT - Virtual Private Network (VPN)
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VPN allows you to connect to on campus-only resources like the Library and encrypts the information you are sending over the network, protecting your data.
OIT Help Center
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Located in 115 Aldrich Hall. After hours assistance is available [ (949) 824-2222 oit@uci.edu]
UCI Libraries Connect From Off Campus
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For further assistance, call OIT at (949) 824-2222 (available 24/7) or visit the OIT Help Desk page.

Supreme Court News

About SCOTUSblog: "SCOTUSblog is devoted to comprehensively covering the U.S. Supreme Court without bias and according to the highest journalistic & legal ethical standards."

UCI Libraries -- Unlimited Access

Click each link to learn how to activate your complimentary subscription to these newspapers, courtesy of UCI Libraries. You only have to activate once to get started, and renew each year while you are at UCI. VPN required to activate.

Local News

Orange County Register
The full text OC Register is now available to UCI community members from the OC Register's website. [requires Cisco VPN authentication]
LA Times* 1985 - current
OC Register* 1987 -current

CLS

Key Sites

* = UC Irvine access only

A-Z Databases
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Comprehensive, searchable, alpha index to all licensed databases
Academic Search Complete*
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Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals."
Annual Reviews*
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Annual Review publications are among the most highly cited in the scientific literature. Annual Reviews are published each year for 46 disciplines within the Bio-medical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences.
Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS)
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BJS collects, analyses, and disseminates criminal justice related data and reports.
CEB (Continuing Education of the Bar California) OnLAW*
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Practice Manuals Online Full Text -- OnLAW provides online access to CEB's California Practice Guides. The CEB Cali Practice Guides provide step-by-step guidance, legal analysis, and forms for practice law in the state of California. OnLAW is "the world's largest source of web-based California legal commentary and analysis..."
CINAHL Complete*
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"The definitive nursing and allied health information database."
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text*
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"CJA with Full Text™ contains over 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline."
Criminal Justice Database*
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"ProQuest Criminal Justice is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals."
Fastcase Platform*
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The Fastcase platform provides access to primary law, treatises, bar publications and more. Fastcase’s libraries are searchable, just like you search the Web or traditional legal research services – by keyword (or “Boolean” search), natural language search, or citation lookup. Fastcase’s libraries include legal treatises (formerly available via LosiLaw), primary law from all 50 states, as well as deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions.
Google Scholar
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"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites."
HeinOnline
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"[M]ore than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,800 law and law-related periodicals. HeinOnline also contains the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more..."
JSTOR
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Five Things About JSTOR: "JSTOR currently includes more than 2,000 academic journals, dating back to the first volume ever published, along with thousands of monographs and other materials relevant for education. We have digitized more than 50 million pages and continue to digitize approximately 3 million pages annually..."
Legal Source*
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"Searchable database provides access to information on the discipline of law and various legal topics, including international coverage, and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, periodicals, and more."

LegalTrac This link opens in a new window This database covers federal and state cases, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, as well as British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law. LegalTrac indexes major law reviews, legal newspapers, law specialty publications, and bar association journals.

Nexis Uni*
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Nexis Uni* provides access to a comprehensive collection of news, business, and law-related resources. Like WestlawNext, Nexis Uni provides full-text access to several hundred law reviews and other legal periodicals, with coverage in most instances beginning in the mid 1980s or early 1990s.
OnLAW (CEB)*
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"OnLAW provides online access to CEB's California Practice Guides. The CEB Cali Practice Guides provide step-by-step guidance, legal analysis, and forms for practice law in the state of California."
Project Muse*
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"Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community."
ProQuest Congressional*
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ProQuest Congressional (1789 to Present Day) provides full text access to congressional publications from the dawn of the Republic to present. Includes access to the full text of all versions of all U.S. bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present.
ProQuest History Vault*
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"ProQuest History Vault provides access to millions of primary source, cross-searchable, full-text/full-image documents on the most widely studied topics in 19th and 20th-century American history." Modules include American Indians and American West, Black Freedom Struggle, Immigration: records of the INS, 1880-1930, Law and society since the civil war, Slavery and the Law, and the Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
ProQuest Legislative Insight*
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ProQuest Legislative Insight* is “the” Federal legislative history service. It’s been around since when the source docs were on MICROFICHE. PLI is made up of “compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.”
PsycINFO*
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"PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines."
Scopus*
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"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research."
Sociological Abstracts *
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"Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences."
Web of Science *
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"Web of Science provides tens of millions of records of curated research content."
WestlawNext*
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WestlawNext Campus Research* provides access to a comprehensive collection of law-related resources.

Dissertations Global

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global*
A comprehensive collection of dissertations, spanning from 1743 to the present, offering full text for graduate works added since 1997...”
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[Our previous dissertations subscription only provided full text access to UC graduate works]

Criminology & Political Science Librarian

Elizabeth V. Hernandez

(she/her)

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Subjects: Chicano/Latinx Studies, Criminology, Ethnic Studies, Law, Political Science, Spanish & Portuguese

The Chronicle of Higher Education

Chronicle of Higher Education
Access the very latest Chronicle of Higher Education content online (authentication required).

Legal News

Law.com*
Provides full text access to over 18 U.S. national and regional legal publications that deliver law related news, rankings, reports, strategy.

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