Innovations in Policing
America's Historical Newspapers
1690-1922 including Early American Newspapers Series 1 - 5
Ethnic News Watch
US minority & ethnic newspapers, journals, and magazines - Yale access only
Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
The retrospective companion to Ethnic NewsWatch. This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses provides the historical foreground to the content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1960–1989.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.
ProQuest Alt-Press Watch
Alt-Press Watch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. As a current and retrospective collection, Alt-Press Watch provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of ...
Search and Display
ProQuest Newspapers
Coverage of national, international, and local news. Find full text articles from many major U.S. newspapers - current and historical; includes Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. New papers added frequently, check "Searching: ## databases" for full, current list.
Guidestar
Find non-profit organizations' tax returns and other information
Leadership Library
Personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States, integrating 14 "Yellow Book" directories with information on more than 400,000 individuals leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations.
The Black Youth Project
The Black Youth Project was a national research project launched in 2004 that examined the attitudes, resources, and culture of African American youth ages 15 to 25, exploring how these factors and others influence the decision-making, norms, and behavior of black youth.
Academic Search (EbscoHOST)
Popular and scholarly material - subscription database with access to Yale community only
bepress Legal Repository
Law-related working papers and research materials posted by law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and learned societies.
CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports
Search the law library's Morris catalog or Proquest Congressional for CRS reports.
Google Scholar
Provides .pdf image and text for journals in the arts and humanities, back to the beginning of the journal (in most cases), and up to 2-3 years of current. Look for Yale Fulltext links to access the materials directly.
JSTOR
Interdisciplinary, full-text, mostly US/UK; includes some F/I journals - subscription database with access to Yale community only
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Working papers and networking opportunities - subscription database with access available to Yale community only
Web of Knowledge
Web of Knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
State Law Research Guide
This state-by-state guide connects to the best research guides and popular databases for each jurisdiction.
Court Briefs Research Guide
This guide will point you to some of the sources for finding court records, including the parties' briefs, motions and other filings. Records for the United States Supreme Court are readily available in various formats.
Landmark Briefs and Arguments of the Supreme Court of the United States
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Selective Coverage of records and briefs for argued and cert denied cases.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Includes a link to BJS publications, which summarizes the movement of prisoners into and out of death sentence status during the year - many stats, including Prisons & Expenditures
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database. The collection, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 205,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.
Sourcebook for Criminal Justice Statistics
1973-current - UES; the Sourcebook brings together data from more than 100 sources about many aspects of criminal justice (including juvenile justice) in the United States. Topics include: criminal justice characteristics; public opinion; types of crime; victims; arrests and seizures; courts, prosecution, sentencing; and parole, jails, prisons and death penalty.
The Black Youth Project
The Black Youth Project was a national research project launched in 2004 that examined the attitudes, resources, and culture of African American youth ages 15 to 25, exploring how these factors and others influence the decision-making, norms, and behavior of black youth.
Orbis
Yale University Library catalog - do Keyword searches in "Journals/Periodicals/Newspapers"
WorldCat
WorldCat is the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) online "union catalog"; that is, its database of over 1 billion records of books and other materials held in more than 10,000 academic, public, special and national libraries around the world. Use WorldCat to locate materials outside of Yale, in almost any area of study, or to locate items in specific libraries and research collections. WorldCat provides catalog records for books, maps, sound recordings, musical scores, films, archives, and computer files held in research, corporate, and public libraries, as well as museums, archives and historical societies. All searches may be easily printed, downloaded or e-mailed directly to you.
NEW ! Click on the Yale links icon and then on the link for submitting an Interlibrary Loan request to obtain items that Yale does not own.
Yale subscribes to a paid version of WorldCat, click of 'Access database.''
