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Choose Library Databases

Many more discipline-specific databases are available on the library's Articles and Database page.

Interlibrary Loan is also available if we do not have full-text access to articles.

Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO)
This database includes abstracts, citations, and some full-text articles from scholarly and trade journals and more on crime and justice studies, criminology, and related disciplines.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar can be a helpful supplement to the library's suite of databases. In particular, Google Scholar is helpful for performing forward citation searches. When using Google Scholar be sure to evaluate your source carefully. Link Google Scholar to UMD Libraries to determine if the library owns the item.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
This resource offers concise topic overviews on current and controversial issues as well as links to reference articles, infographics, news, images, video, audio, and more.
ProQuest Central
This database includes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from scholarly and trade journals, magazines, newspapers, and more. This multidisciplinary database contains the content of the most used ProQuest databases with several subjects areas covered extensively including business and economics, health and medical, news and world affairs, technology, social sciences, and more.
APA PsycInfo (EBSCO)
This database contains citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from schoarly and journals in the psychological sciences, including basic/experimental psychology, clinical psychology, developmental psychology, education and school psychology, health psychology, and industrial/organizational psychology. APA PsycArticles is included within this database.
SocINDEX (EBSCO)
This database includes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, and more. Offers coverage of all subdisciplines of sociology, including anthropology, criminal justice, political science, social work, and social psychology.
Women's Studies International (EBSCO)
This database includes citations, abstracts, and some full-text articles from scholarly journals, magazines, including latest scholarship in feminist research. Topics include sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business, and education.

Find Peer Reviewed Journals

This video contains a step-by-step tutorial that outlines how to find peer reviewed journal articles in library databases. It's a great one to revisit throughout your time at UMassD.

Access Library Links in Google Scholar

Watch this video to learn how to link Google Scholar to the library databases. This is a quick way to freely access full text articles and interlibrary loan services!

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