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CJ 202: Introduction to Criminal Law and Procedure: Databases

Overview

  • We use different techniques to search online databases than we use in a search engine, like google.
  • These are common search strategies and can be applied to any online database.
  • If you are not getting the results that you need, contact a librarian by visiting the library or emailing askus@hilbert.edu.

Databases for Scholarly Sources

InterLibrary Loan (ILL)

If we do not have the full text version of an article, users can request that article through InterLibrary Loan (ILL). We look for the article at other libraries and do our best to get you a copy of the article! 

 

Visit the ILL page on our website to learn more about this service.

 

If you've never used ILL before, you will have to create an account. Click the button below to access your account and/or make a new account:

Concept/Keyword Searching

Boolean Operators

Use AND in between the different concepts in your topic to narrow the focus.

Stalking AND same-sex AND legislation

Use OR to broaden the focus of your search

Legislation OR law

Stalking OR harassing 

Same-sex OR LGBTQIA 

Use NOT to exclude a specific term from your results.

 

Truncation

Truncation:

  • A tool that researchers use that instructs database to search for alternate endings of a word.
  • Type the root of a word and use as asterisk (*)
    • EX: boy* will search for boy, boys, boyhood
    • art* will search for art, arts, artist, artichoke (<-- look for odd results and modify when needed!)

Limit to Peer-Review

When you are in the databases, you can limit your results to "peer-reviewed". This means that only articles from scholarly sources will be displayed.