Article length is longer and content is in-depth.
Written by expert/s in the field, and name(s) and credentials provided.
Language includes concepts and/or jargon of the field for scholarly readers.
Structured arrangement, often with abstract, literature review, methodology, results, conclusion.
Illustrations support the text, as with statistical tables, graphs.
Content is peer-reviewed, refereed by a group of experts.
Bibliography/works cited/footnotes document the research.
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A research database is a searchable collection of many types of sources. A database might include journal, magazine, or newspaper articles, book chapters, book reviews, reports, and other types of published information. These collections might be topic-specific and narrowly-focused, or they may be very broad and comprehensive in the subject matter they include.
Use your list of keywords as search words in these databases.
Content includes criminology; criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections; policing; investigation; forensic sciences; addiction; probation and parole.
Provides access to journals, books, dissertations and working papers in the field of economics.
Covers emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.
Provides access to the literature of psychology and an array of related disciplines such as education, business, medicine, nursing, law, and social work.
SSCI covers nursing, allied health fields, education, psychology, and other social science; offers citation connections between scholarly research articles. From Web of Science.
Offers indexing/abstracts of 450+ social work and human services journals covering theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems. 1965-present.
Index, abstracts, and full text for articles and other publications in sociology.
Covers all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture and social structure.