Sections
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Section 3: Finding Articles
Criminal justice periodicals can be separated into two different types:
- Scholarly journals publish the results of scientifically designed studies (primary sources)
conducted by university faculty and other criminal justice professionals.
- Newspapers and
general or criminal justice trade magazines publish non-scientific
articles of interest to the public or criminal justice practioners.
In general, articles
tend to be more current than books. However, they often only concern one
small aspect of what may be a large, diverse subject. In
this chapter you will:
- Learn what an index
is
- Learn which indexes
work with criminal justice topics
- Learn how to best
select and arrange search terms
- Learn how to search
Criminal Justice Abstracts
- Learn how to determine
whether articles found in Criminal Justice Abstracts are available in
the Old Dominion University Library
- Learn how to acquire
articles not available in the Old Dominion University Library
- Learn how Distance
Education Students can acquire articles
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