Criminology and Policing

SocINDEX

Vast sociology database which includes material relating to social justice, criminology and mental health.

Westlaw

This is a legal database which provides the full text of Acts of Parliament, Statutory Instruments (SIs) and legal cases.

Scopus - Essential research tool for students undertaking a literature review for a dissertation topic. Scopus provides important data on research papers which have been cited by other authors in previous work.

APA PsycINFO provides access to the international literature of psychology material related to the psychological aspects of education, medicine, business, sociology and psychiatry.

DISCOVER allows you to search across multiple academic databases provided through the University of Bedfordshire Library. It is a good place to start searching for academic journal articles on all topics relating to Criminology and Policing.

Reading lists for the units you are studying in Criminology and Policing can be accessed through BREO, or by searching for the unit title. The online reading lists are a good place to start off from as they provide access to the core-texts and selected readings for your unit.

Web of Science core collection brings together three citation indexes which provide data from about 22,000 journals: Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) as well as published proceeding from about 12 000 annual conferences.

Credo Reference is a searchable collection containing 100 reference sources including subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, biographical sources and quotations. Includes titles such as The Gale encyclodpedia of nursing and allied health and Black's medical dictionary

ETHOS - Electronic Theses Online - The British Library's Open Access collection of UK doctoral theses. Thousands of theses are indexed, but not all are available for download,