Periodical Articles

American Periodicals (1740-1900+) offers full text of about 1100 American periodicals. In cases where a periodical started before 1900 coverage is included until 1940. Full text searchable.

MasterFILE Premier (1980- ), designed for school and public library use, indexes more popular magazines than Academic Search Premier. A few magazines indexed back to circa. 1900.  Includes full-text Saturday Evening Post back to 1931.

Opinion Archives offers a full text, as well as author/title, search of full runs of the following opinion periodicals:
American Spectator (1972- ) - Commentary – (1945- ) Commonweal (1924) - Dissent (1954- ) - Harpers Magazine (1850- ) - Moment (1975- )- NACLA (1966- ) - Nation (1965- ) - National Review (1955- ) - New Leader (1924- ) - New Republic (1914- ) - New York Review (1963- ) - New Yorker (1925- ) - Orion Magazine (1982- ) - Progressive (1909- )- Washington Monthly (1969- ) - Weekly Standard (1995- ) Full text searchable.

Periodicals Index Online indexes contents of thousands of journals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1995. Covers journals from North America, the United Kingdom, and the rest of the English-speaking world and journals in other European languages including French, German, Italian and Spanish. Includes the complete table of contents for each issue of each journal.

Reader's Guide Retrospective (WilsonWeb) (1890-1982) indexes many popular periodicals.

Eight Centuries includes several Nineteenth Century periodical indexes together with many separate indexes to individual periodicals.

National police gazette. New York, (1845- ) was a sensationalistic popular magazine with lots of crime content  HOLLIS record

More sources for magazines are listed on the in the General and Popular Indexes pages of Finding Articles in General and Popular Periodicals (North America and Western Europe).

 

Business Premium Collection (1971-) indexes academic management, marketing, and general business journals

Business Source Complete (early 20th century- )

EconLit (1969- ) indexes articles from over 525 journals. Since 1987 includes books and dissertations. Earlier years available in print in Index to Economic Journals (1886- ) and Index of economic articles in collective volumes (1960- )

International bibliography of economics (1953- ), included in International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, is a bibliography of periodical articles, books, essays in books, and government publications.

Economist Historical Archive (1843-2004).

NCJRS abstracts database (National Criminal Justice Reference Service abstracts database, 1970- ) covers Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

Oxford Bibliographies: Criminology

Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968- ) covers U.S. and international criminal justice literature including scholarly journals, books, dissertations, governmental and non-governmental studies and reports, unpublished papers, magazines, newsletters, etc. and other materials.

See also the general legal literature

Many police and criminological periodicals are available full text in the Internet Archive.

  • Search: collection:(Periodicals) AND Police. Select Media Type: Collections
  • Search: collection:(Periodicals) AND Prison. Select Media Type: Collections
  • Search: collection:(Magazine_Rack) AND Prison. Select Media Type: Collections

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Specific publications: 

  • The Detective : official journal of the police authorities and sheriffs of the United States, 1885-1953?. HOLLIS record
  • National police officer (St. Louis, Mo.), 1929- . HOLLIS record
  • Police (Springfield, Ill.), 1956-1972. HOLLIS record
  • The Police chief (Washington, D.C. : International Association of Chiefs of Police), 1953- HOLLIS record
  • Police chiefs' news letter. Chicago Ill. : International Association of Chiefs of Police), 1934-1947 HOLLIS record

Find more by searching in HOLLIS on Police Periodicals as a Subject keyword search

Bibliographies

American prisons: an annotated bibliography, by Elizabeth Huffmaster McConnell and Laura J. Moriarty. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1998, 321 p.
HOLLIS Record

Criminal justice literature is covered in this series of bibliographies

A guide to material on crime and criminal justice, by Augustus Frederick Kuhlman for the Committee on Survey of Research on Crime and Criminal Justice of the Social Science Research Council. New York : H.W. Wilson, 1929, 633 p.
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Bibliography of crime and criminal justice, 1927-1931, by Dorothy Campbell Culver. New York, The H. W. Wilson company, 1934. xl, 413 p.
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Bibliography of crime and criminal justice, 1932-1937, by Dorothy Campbell Culver. New York, The H.W. Wilson Company, 1939. xxxi, 391 p.
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Sources for the study of the administration of criminal justice, 193-1948, by Dorothy Campbell Tompkins, Bureau of Public Administration, University of California, 1949. 294 p.
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Administration of criminal justice, 1949-1956; a selected bibliography, by Dorothy Campbell Tompkins. [Sacramento?] California Special Study Commission on Correctional Facilities and Services, 1956. ix, 351 p.
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Criminal justice in America, 1959-1984: an annotated bibliography, by John D. Hewitt, Eric D. Poole, Robert M. Regoli. New York: Garland Pub., 1985. xvii, 347 p.
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GenderWatch (1974- ) provides full text of scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and pamphlets, conference proceedings, and government, non-governmental organization, and special reports.

Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (1995-)

LGBT Life with Full Text indexes magazines, academic journals, news sources, gray literature, and books that deal with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender concerns.

Women's Studies International (1972- ) accesses a variety of women's studies databases.

Oxford Bibliographies offer numerous annotated bibliographies of secondary sources.

America: History and Life (1955- ) includes books, book chapters, journal articles, and book reviews on North American history.

Historical Abstracts (1954- ) includes books, book chapters, journal articles (but not book reviews) for non-North American history, 1450-date.

Bibliography of British and Irish History is a comprehensive bibliography of books and periodical articles on British and British colonial history. Most historical society publications were excluded.

Web of Science Citation Indexes allow citation searching, that is, starting with an article of interest and finding more recent articles that have cited it.

JSTOR allows simultaneous or individual searching, full-text searching optional. Advanced search is most effective.

Labor History: Digitized Labor Publications (U. Maryland)

The Online Books Page: Labor Unions

Labor Periodicals (Internet Archive)

International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text (1900- ; full text 1998- ) indexes over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the US, Africa and the Caribbean. Now included within ProQuest Black Studies.

African American Periodicals, 1825-1995 offers over 170 periodicals from 26 states including academic and political journals, commercial magazines, institutional newsletters, organizations’ bulletins, annual reports, etc.

Race Relations Abstracts (1975-Present)

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) (1915- ) indexes international public and social policy literature. Includes journal articles, books, book chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, government documents, etc. Journals indexed in PAIS http://www.csa.com/factsheets/pais-set-c.php

JSTOR includes the full text of 119 political science journals from their date of inception to about 5 years ago.

International bibliography of political science (1953- ), included in International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, is a bibliography of periodical articles, books, essays in books, and government publications.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) (1991- ) includes articles, books, conference proceedings, working papers, etc.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975- )

CAB Abstracts (1910-Present) includes journal articles, conference papers, reports, and books on public health. Worldwide coverage with emphasis on Africa and Latin America.

Global health, 1973-Present

PubMed (1950-Present) covers, usually with abstracts, periodical articles on all areas of medicine. 

 

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts: ASSIA (largely 1987- )

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences(1951- ) includes: International bibliography of sociology

Social Services Abstracts (1980- (Social Service Review back to 1927))

Sociological Abstracts (1952-)

Urban Studies Abstracts (1973 - )

Urban Studies Abstracts (1973 - )

Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes more than 2,500 international periodicals on archeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage begins in the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) and extends to the present.