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Welcome!
Welcome to the CRJ 4200 Course Guide. This guide will introduce you to some resources for your Leadership and Ethical Challenges presentation and paper. If you need assistance, please ask - my email and appointment scheduler is in the Librarian box below left.
Biographical Sources
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Biography in Context This link opens in a new window
Discover the world's most influential people by searching narrative biographies, news, magazine, and multimedia content.
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U.S. Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Access hundreds of U.S. newspapers, including the New York Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Wall Street Journal, and more. Coverage from the 1980's through today.
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Wikipedia: The Free EncyclopediaUseful for basic biographical information about your leader and links to other, more credible, sources.
Article Databases - Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
These resources include peer-reviewed journal articles, but also other types of sources (newspapers, books, etc).
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Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new window
The leading bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. Criminal Justice Abstracts provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 800 journals covering all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.
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OneSearch This link opens in a new window
OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
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Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowFollow these steps to add PennWest library links to your Google Scholar settings.