Newspaper Articles

• America’s Newspapers
• LexisNexis Academic
• Newspaper Source

Trade/Professional Resources

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database articles, books, reports, government publications
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library wide variety of full text publications
• National Institute of Corrections Database browse the online library of full text research reports and articles

Mixture of Academic & Trade/Professional Articles

• Criminal Justice Periodicals Index - both magazine & journal articles
• Academic Search Premier - both magazine & journal articles
• InfoTrac (Expanded Academic Index) - both magazine & journal articles

Academic Resources

• Criminal Justice Abstracts - articles, books, reports, gov’t publications
• PsycINFO - journal articles, books, chapters
• Sociological Abstracts - journal articles, books, dissertations
• Dissertations & Theses – full text since 1997
  Note: if you find reference to a dissertation in another database or catalog, search for it in D & T, which may provide the full text.

LEJA Journals at WIU

Distinguishing Scholarly from Non-scholarly Periodicals: A Checklist of Criteria

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