Green River LibGuides: Criminal Justice Subject Guide: Find Scholarly Articles

Find Scholarly Articles & Case Law in Library Databases and Online

Holman Library One Search

Use the Holman Library One Search to search for peer reviewed and other sources in all of our databases at once.

To find sources:

Type in your initial search terms.
Add more search words with Advanced Search
Search and use the menu to find Peer Reviewed Journals only
Use other limiters on the left to filter your results by date and more
To expand your search beyond our collection (and borrow with Interlibrary Loan), check the box to include sources not in full text.

Search in a Specialized Database

Sometimes it's more productive to search in a specific database! Library databases offer useful subject terms and specialized databases return more relevant results.

Criminal Justice Database:

Criminal Justice OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
Full-text scholarly journals in law, law enforcement, court reporting, forensic science, crime scene investigation and paralegal service.

Psychology Database

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Part of Academic Search Complete (Also known as "Ebsco"). Thousands of full text articles from psychology and behavioral science magazines and journals ready to search with your subject keywords.

Multidisciplinary Databases:

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Search more than 18,000 academic journals and magazines from a wide variety of disciplines including more than 7500 full text peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Find in-depth research and analysis in JSTOR's full text archive of academic journals in all subjects.
ProQuest Combined Databases This link opens in a new window
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and academic journals
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
Search high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

Search Tips

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Use multiple and different search terms to retrieve different articles. Use quotation marks around exact terms if the results are not relevant.
Check the "full text" and "peer-reviewed" options if needed
You can also limit by publication date when needed.

Legal Archives Online

You can find some good scholarly criminal justice articles for this assignment on the free web, but remember, the burden of proof rests on you to determine if the article is scholarly.

Be sure to check for date!

The following legal archives on the web offer some free full text content.

Berkeley Law Scholarship Repository
Features a developing collection of law publications and papers from University of California at Berkeley
Example: A search of "police misconduct" returns 30 articles from the California Law Review, Asian American Law Journal, and others, including "From the Community Lawyers' Lens: The Case of the Quincy 4 and Challenges to Securing Civil Rights for Asian Americans"
bepress: Legal Scholarship Repository
Open access archive of legal and criminal justice sources, many of which are scholarly journal articles or are analysis papers written by legal scholars.

Google Scholar - Articles & Case Law

Use Google Scholar to find articles about laws and to find the laws themselves.

Choose Case Law to find laws.
Search for Articles about laws with a basic or advanced search.

PRO TIP: Set Google Scholar to check for full text in Holman Library Databases.

Click on three line menu bar
Click on Settings.
Click on Library Links.
Type in Green River College Library.

InterLibrary Loan

If the full text is not available through Holman Library, you can submit a request to borrow articles and books free of charge with InterLibrary Loan.

Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Request books and articles from other libraries using ILL