Electronic Resources: Public Affairs and Law

Resource Name	Source	Description
Criminal Justice Abstracts	SilverPlatter	Provides indexing for publications on crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, police, courts, corrections, offenders, punishment and sentencing, and victimology. 1968 - present. Updated annually.
Expanded Academic ASAP	InfoTrac SearchBank	Provides indexing for recently published popular magazines and scholarly journals. Topics include astronomy, religion, law, history, psychology, humanities, current events, sociology, communications, and the general sciences. Selected full-text articles. 1995 - present with access to backfile (1980-1994). Updated weekly.
GPO Monthly Catalog	FirstSearch	Provides records for U.S. Government documents including congressional reports, hearings, debates and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments. July 1976 - present. Updated monthly
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books	FirstSearch	Provides indexing for book reviews and articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications. August 1981 - present. Updated weekly.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)	FirstSearch	Articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers from 1972 to the present with abstracts for most records from 1985. Updated monthly.
Safety Science and Risk Abstracts	Internet Database Service (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)	Provides a comprehensive survey of recent work relating to public health, safety, and industrial hygiene.
Additional CD-ROM Resources are available in the McConnell Library reference area.

VIVA (Virginia colleges and universities) only

Radford University only