Security Management Resources
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Criminal Justice Database (ProQuest): Access ProQuest databases through your Learner Center
- Watch this Introduction to ProQuest Databases video to learn the basics of accessing and using this resource.
- Research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as litigation and crime trends from scholarly journals, law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, and more.
- Additional help can be found in the ProQuest Tutorial series
Additional Resources
Best Web Sources
Other Databases
Websites
Open Access Journals
Best Web Sources
Department of Homeland Security – Law Enforcement Resources
- Comprehensive guide to free resources for law enforcement personnel
- Includes:
- State and Local Law Enforcement Information Guide
- Homeland Security Information Network
- Gatherings, Trainings and Meetings
- Cornell Law’s Free Online law dictionary.
- Search or Browse full legal definitions of thousands of legal terms.
- From University of Pittsburg Law school
- Largest source of free online legal news.
Other Databases
Digital Commons Network-Law Commons
- 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 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
Websites
- A global community of 34,000+ security professionals across industries and disciplines, and at all career stages.
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
- 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”
- Easy access to datasets generated and held by the federal government
- Provides free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal government
- Search for, browse, access and download official publications
- Federated search engine that searches millions of U.S. Federal government databases
- 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
Security Industry Association (SIA)
- A membership trade organization, that provides education, certification, standards, advocacy and influential events which connect the industry.
International Security Management Association
- Their mission is to provide members with a global, trusted, and unrivalled peer information sharing network, a forum for robust thought leadership, and relevant professional development.
Open Access Journals
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 on-line peer-reviewed academic journal highlighting research that focuses on the intersection of criminal justice and popular culture.
- A double-blind peer-reviewed professional journal published quarterly by Global and National Security Institute (GNSI) at the University of South Florida with support from the USF Libraries.
- Security Journal is hybrid open access and provides comprehensive insights into the latest research and advancements in the field of security and related topics.
Western Criminology Review Archive
- Archives from 1998-2014.