AJ 50 (McQuiston)

Articles, including popular, scholarly, and scholarly-peer reviewed from periodicals are great for exploring a narrower, particular aspect of your topic. Each type of article can be found through our online library databases and offer a different sort of view, depending on their purpose.

To find articles select one of the periodical databases for this class displayed to the right.  Once the database is open, search for your topic by keyword, refine your results, capture relevant entries, and finally, be sure to enter in the citation information into Noodletools or other citing tool.

Click here for information on the different article types.

Search terms are important for good results. The computer is looking only for the words in the search box. Generally in the Basic Search mode, the computer is only looking for the search terms in: Title, Abstract and Subject Headings.

Subject Headings are listed after the magazine/journal title information. When a good article is found, look at the Subject Headings. Repeat those terms in your search to find more articles on the same subject.

1) Determine the key words

2) Use quotation marks around any phrases

3) Look at Subject Headings listed under the Title information

4) Having trouble getting results? Broaden or change your search strategy.

If you need research assistance, please contact an LPC librarian.  A librarian can suggest further search terms, strategies, or databases to try.

Community policing

Homicide investigation

Forensic sciences

Criminal justice

Juvenile justice

Corrections

Miranda rights

Mandatory minimum sentencing