Monday, October 22, 2012

Databases Trials: Criminal Justice Abstracts With Full Text and SocIndex with Full Text



Currently on trial are these two databases from EBSCO, Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text and SocIndex with Full Text.

About Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text:
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ is the full-text counterpart of Criminal Justice Abstracts™, formerly a SAGE database. This resource includes bibliographic records and full text covering essential areas related to criminal justice and criminology. The increasing globalization of criminology is reflected in Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text’s coverage of hundreds of journals from around the world.

About SocIndex with Full Text:
SocINDEX™ with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
 SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 890 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
Both trials end December 31st. Send feedback to Subject Liaison Karen Brunner: brunner@csp.edu or to the Reference Staff: reference@csp.edu