Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Index of major journals, books, and reports in criminology and related disciplines.  more info

Index to Legal Periodicals
International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence.  more info

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

LexisNexis Legal
Federal, state, and some international statutes, codes, case law; law reviews; and patents.  more info

More Databases

Facts on File World News Digest
News back to 1940 plus an almanac, encyclopedia, and more.  more info

ICPSR Direct
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Remote access only for UAA Students from the Anchorage Campus.  more info

Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.  more info

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts on all aspects of sociology and related disciplines. NOTE: This database has changed from FirstSearch to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  more info

Wilson Select Plus
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

Alaska Law
Links to alaska law and legal sites.  more info

Alaska State Court Law Library
Home page for the law library- includes online catalog.  more info

Anchorage Police Department
Municipal website of the Anchorage Police Department  more info

Bureau of Justice Statistics
Excellent source for statistics on crime, violence, etc.  more info

Center for Problem Oriented Policing
Access to information about ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems.  more info

Crime Prevention Studies
Annual publication published by the Center for Problem Oriented Policing  more info

Crime Topics
From the Librarians' Index to the Internet.  more info

Criminal Justice
From the Argus Clearinghouse.  more info

Emory Law School Electronic Reference Desk
A listing of electronic legal journals and other periodicals.  more info

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Social science data and resources for researchers  more info

Justice Center Web Site
From the University of Alaska Anchorage.  more info

NJCRS
National Criminal Justice Reference Service  more info

SAC
Alaska Justice Statistical Analysis Center  more info

University of Alaska Anchorage Police Department
Website of the Police Department at University of Alaska Anchorage  more info

WWW Virtual Library - Law
Material within the Virtual Law Library is organized by organization type (e.g. U.S. Government Servers) and by legal topic.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

Anchorage Police Department statistical report.
Available up to 1998.  more info

Black's law dictionary.
Bryan A. Garner, editor in chief.  more info