Law Technology Today

• Free search of articles over 300 online law reviews

Wex

• Cornell Law’s Free Online law dictionary.
• Search or Browse full legal definitions of thousands of legal terms.

JURIST

• From University of Pittsburg Law school
• Largest source of free online legal news.

Digital Commons Network – Law

• The BEPress Digital Commons Network is an open source institutional repository which makes the scholarly output of several universities and institutions freely available
• Law subject area contains over 167,000 works from 212 institutions
• A tutorial on using the Digital Commons Network can be found here

Digital Public Library of America

• Brings together free resources from America’s archives libraries, archives, and museums
• Striving to contain the full breadth of human expression, this portal currently provide access to over 5,000,000 resources
• Use the bookshelf tab or the search bar to navigate to the search interface or find resources on a particular topic

Directory of Open-Access Journals

• “The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals, thereby promoting their increased usage and impact”
• Thousands of open access journals with full text articles

Google Scholar

• “Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.”
• Since not all resources on Google Scholar are free, look for items that have a PDF link on the right hand side of the page, which indicate they are available for free immediate viewing

American Bar Association – Criminal Justice

• The ABA is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations dedicated to serving its members, improving the legal profession, and advancing the rule of law
• News, events and products related to criminal justice

American Civil Liberties Union

• Works to preserve liberties, specifically those protected by the first amendment, equal protection under the law, due process and privacy
• Focuses on a legal and legislative approach and provides information, resources, tools and reports

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

• Finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those available online
• Can search by authoring agency, title, subject, keyword or more

Crime Solutions

• A subsidiary of the NIJ and DoJ
• Focuses on research to inform practitioners and policy makers about what works in “criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services”

Data.gov

• Easy access to datasets generated and held by the federal government

Govinfo

• Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal government
• Search, browse, access and download official publications

MetaLib

• Federated search engine that searches millions of U.S. Federal government databases

National Institute of Justice

• Research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice
• Provides overviews of key topics, access to NIJ publications and podcasts, events and much more

Congressional Research Service Reports

• Reports from the Congressional Research Service, a federal legislative branch agency located within the Library of Congress
• Provides access to CRS reports already in the public domain

U.S. Government Accountability Office

• GAO is an independent and non-partisan agency that works for congress to investigate how the federal government spends taxpayer money

Bureau of Justice Statistics

• A component of the Office of Justice Programs in the U.S. Department of Justice
• The US’s primary source for criminal justice statistics

International Justice Statistics

• Collects criminal justice data from international resources including the UN as well as country specific information

National Archive for Criminal Justice Data

• Provides free, downloadable access to hundreds of data collections for research and instruction in criminal justice

Sourcebook of Federal Sentencing Statistics

• Data on all aspects of crime gathered from approximately 200 public and private sources

Internet Journal of Criminology

• Their aim is to publish international, scholarly and peer-reviewed criminology articles of the highest standard.

Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture

• An online peer-reviewed academic journal highlighting research that focuses on the intersection of criminal justice and popular culture.

Western Criminology Review Archive

• Archives from 1998-2014.