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Research about Forensic Science is found in the literature of law, crime, politics, science, social science and psychology. See Related guides for additional resources.

Key databases

FORENSICnetBASE/LAWENFORCEMENTnetBASE Full Text
FORENSICnetBASE/LAWENFORCEMENTnetBASE contains the full text of hundreds of books on forensic science, law enforcement and criminal justice.

Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
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ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

PsycINFO Selected Full Text
Scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
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ScienceDirect Full Text
Access 227 Elsevier journals through the ScienceDirect platform.
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SpringerLink Full Text
Peer-reviewed journals in astronomy, chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, environmental sciences, geosciences, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and physics.
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TOXLINE
TOXLINE offers rapid access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. The index abstracts journal articles, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, papers and reports. CSA's TOXLINE is a 'rolling 5-year' index, consisting of records from the last 5 years plus the current year.
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Web of Knowledge
Search Web of Science, Current Contents Connect, CAB Abstracts and Journal Citation Reports.

Wiley InterScience Full Text
Search current journals in a wide range of disciplines.
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AGIS Plus Text: Attorney General's Information Service Plus Text Full Text
Access to legal journals for Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. Includes all aspects of law.

AustLII: The Australasian Legal Information Institute Selected Full Text
Australian legal materials (including journals) and the decisions of most state courts and tribunals.

Biological Sciences Selected Full Text
This database covers research in biomedicine, biotechnology, zoology,ecology, and specific aspects of agriculture and veterinary science.

EMBASE
Covers the latest scientific developments in biomedical and pharmacological information.
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JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
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Newsbank Full Text
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.

PubMed Selected Full Text
PubMed provides access to over 15 million MEDLINE citations dating back to the mid-1960s.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Selected Full text
Covers chemical science and provides access to the RSC Journals Archive back to 1841.

Taylor & Francis SSH Full Text
Access journals in the humanities, economics, management, geography, environmental sciences and the social sciences.
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Colour Atlas and Manual of Microscopy for Criminalists, Chemists, and Conservators
Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security
Forensic Science: An Illustrated Dictionary
Gunshot Wounds
Oxford Reference Online — Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
SAGE eReference — SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias. Sage eReference includes the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, and Encyclopedia of Law & Society, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, and Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Society.
World of Forensic Science

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Recommended journals

American Journal of Psychiatry
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences
Criminology
Forensic Science Communications
International Journal of Legal Medicine
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Journal of Quantitative Criminology

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Web sites and Internet resources

Australian Institute of Criminology— Australia's national crime and justice research agency: includes statistics, fact sheets and newsletter.
Australian Museum Insect Links
AuthorMapper - searches journal articles and maps the location of authors.
Crime Scene Investigation— an overview of crime scene investigation including evidence collection and preservation, photography, fingerprinting and tracking.
David Willshire's Forensic Psychology, Psychiatry and Cycling Links.
FBI Laboratory— this FBI page provides links to articles through Forensic Science Communication and the the Handbook of Forensic Services.
Forensic Science Resources
National Institute of Forensic Science
ScienceResearch.com - accelerates your research by returning relevant results from over 300 authoritative science and technology collections.
ScientificCommons.org - aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet.
Wolfram Alpha - a computational database using knowledge-based computing. Enter your question and WA computes the answer.

 

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