LibGuides: LAW 211: Databases

Search Strategies

Here are some tips for better search results in databases. This usage works on most databases, but you can also check the 'Help' sections for more detailed search strategies.

Boolean: (using operators: and, or, not)

health AND medicine searches for occurrences of both words within scope defined.

health OR medicine searches for one or all, but both are not required.

Truncation:

govern* searches for govern, government, governmental, etc.

Wildcard:

m?n searches for man and men.

Remote Access

No library barcode is needed to access databases and e-journal packages anymore! Instead, for registered students, LIU credentials (email username and password) will be used to check out materials and access electronic resources remotely. For more information, please check the LIU’s New University ID Card and the Library LibGuide. Please contact the Circulation Department for help: bkln-libcirc@liu.edu; (718) 488-1080.

Articles in Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals. Previous known as Criminal Justice Collection
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides access to long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals, making complete archives of full text available and searchable. Coverage begins with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s, and extends to a "moving wall" of 2 to 5 years prior to the most recently published issue. JSTOR' now includes Current Collection, comprised of titles from leading publishers, covering journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, statistics, archaeology, classics, and Asian, African, Slavic, Latin American, and Middle Eastern studies, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

LexisNexis Tutorials

Full text electronic journals

All of the following journals are available to read, save, and print online. The links below will take you to the library catalog record for each journal. Click on any of the "Full text available" links within the record to browse articles within each journal, then enter your LIU credentials for access (if you are working from off campus).

Journal Finder: Find Full Text, Print or Microform @ LIU Libraries

Full Text Journals by Title

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