LibGuides: Administration of Justice Studies: Articles

Journal Articles from Databases

Why use Databases? Why not just Google the information?

Anyone can publish on the internet.
They may or may not know their topic.
In order to publish in a Journal, you must be an expert and meet specific standards in your area of expertise.

This means that you can trust what you read in a Journal Article.

ACCESSING THE DATABASES WITH USERNAME & PASSWORD:

You need these to access library databases for articles and eBooks.

Log in to MyNPC
Click on the "My Courses" link
At the right side of the screen you will see a section called "Other Important Information."
Beneath that you will see "Library Information."
Further down you must click on the link to the "Passwords for Access to the Library Databases"

Best Bets - places to begin

BASE This link opens in a new window
BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window
The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
DPLA This link opens in a new window
The DPLA is a free digital resource that provides access to millions of materials from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions across the United States in one single search.
Boundless Audiobook Collection This link opens in a new window
EBSCO - Listen to eAudiobooks while you're on the go. Download titles to your Android or Apple device (free apps available from the App Store or Google Play)
EBSCO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
Numerous eBooks covering various topics and subject matter. Each title is limited to one user at a time.
Elsevier's Open Access Journal List This link opens in a new window
All articles in open access journals which are published by Elsevier have undergone peer review and upon acceptance are immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. Published articles: Are fully peer reviewed. Are immediately free to access and download from ScienceDirect. Permitted re-use defined by the author's choice of Creative Commons user licenses. Published with CrossMark® to maintain the publication record
Google Books This link opens in a new window
Internet Archive This link opens in a new window
Non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Our mission is to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge. We began in 1996 by archiving the Internet itself, a medium that was just beginning to grow in use. Like newspapers, the content published on the web was ephemeral - but unlike newspapers, no one was saving it. Today we have 20+ years of web history accessible through the Wayback Machine and we work with 450+ library and other partners through our Archive-It program to identify important web pages. As our web archive grew, so did our commitment to providing digital versions of other published works. Today our archive contains: 279 billion web pages, 11 million books and texts, 4 million audio recordings (including 160,000 live concerts), 3 million videos (including 1 million Television News programs), 1 million images, and 100,000 software programs.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
OAIster This link opens in a new window
OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open archive resources that was built by harvesting from open archive collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster boasts more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors.
OpenDOAR This link opens in a new window
OpenDOAR provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation and analysis to assist the wider use and exploitation of repositories. Each of the repositories has been visited by OpenDOAR staff to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided: OpenDOAR is maintained by SHERPA Services, based at the Centre for Research Communications at the University of Nottingham.