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Using Information Services and Library Resources

• Introduction
• World Wide Web Databases, Journals and Websites
• Electronic Journals
• Government Publications
• Starting Points in Research
• Evaluation
• Storage of Information

Introduction

The Information Division and the Library provide a range of services that enable access to both electronic and print information and encourage the research process. With over 3 million items and a world class microform and collaborative learning centre you can be well placed to satisfy your curiosity, in books, on the Web and through our many databases and electronic journals. Although electronic information is important, books journals and newspapers are still available in all branches and give that tactile experience missing on the computer screen! There are many special collections including maps and archives that can give you that little bit of information to make your research or essay more interesting.

The library catalogue and its electronic collection of journals and journal indexes can be searched on campus at the many branches or from any computer off campus with internet access at http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/.

Criminology resources

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Socio-Legal Studies resources

http://dozer.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/SuRe/subject.php?subject=Socio-Legal+Studies

Melanie Lazarow (Room 508, 49426, mlazarow@ unimelb.edu.au) is available to help staff and research students find articles, documents and statistics relevant to your research or conference papers. E-literature and cited articles with their rankings are also her domain. She can help with citing sources, avoiding plagiarism and using EndNote Software. Melanie is particularly interested in developing exercises and sequenced plans for students in class time or as exercises as part of course requirements. Past examples have included on-line bibliographies, the development of blogs for understanding information, web diaries relating to information sources and evaluation of web sites. Electronic resources can be supplied to supplement learning resource systems like Blackboard or Webraft.

Borrowing Books

Undergraduates are allowed to borrow 30 items and renew them by phone or on the WWW. Also if a book is out to another borrower you can place a hold on it and it will be set aside for you on its return.

Some books or journal articles in high demand are put on the Reserve Desk in the Baillieu or in the Law library's closed section. These are available overnight or for a two hour period. Material held in the Reserve collection can be retrieved and copied on site or it can be borrowed at the Loans Desk and used for two hours anywhere in the Library. Overnight loans are held in the Reserve collection and should be borrowed at the Loans Desk.

Finding Material in the Reserve Collection. Use the computer catalogue, Innopac, to find material put in Reserve for your course. Choose the option "Reserve Lists" and search by Course Number, Course title or by Lecturer. You can also search the Library Catalogue by author or title to find books or photocopied articles in Reserve. Note down the call number, author's name and the title.

All University of Melbourne Students and Staff are able to borrow books from other University Libraries using the CAVAL system. You need to take your current student ID card to any loans desk and a CAVAL Card will be issued.

Exam Papers. The most recent exam papers are held in the Reserve Collection in the Baillieu Library and some are available on the Internet via the University of Melbourne Library Home Page. http://exams.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/exams.html Older exams are on microfilm and are held in the Microform Section on the First Floor.

World Wide Web Databases, Journals and Websites

The University has created a system called "Buddy" which arranges all electronic information in one place for convenience. The Library's Website for Criminology emphasizes these databases at the moment:

CINCH - The Australian Criminology Database. A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice.

Criminal Justice Abstracts - is an international index with comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines. Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.

Current Contents - is a database which contains citations to journal articles and tables of contents from thousands of periodicals many of which are crucial to criminology. Updated weekly to provide timely access to recently published journal issues, book chapters, etc.

APAIS - Indexes and abstracts articles from journals, newspapers, conference papers and books. Subject coverage includes social sciences and humanities. This electronic version of the database commences in 1990. It is useful for Australian content. Also has a parallel database including some full-text journals called AP-AFT.

PsycINFO (CSA) - PsycINFO provides access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines. Unrivaled in its depth of psychological coverage and respected worldwide for its high quality, the database is enriched with literature from an array of disciplines related to psychology such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, criminology, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 to the present are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.

AFPD - 1991+ Australian Federal Police Digest (AFPD), produced by the Australian Federal Police Library, Canberra, is bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields.

Expanded Academic ASAP - Expanded Academic ASAP is a multidisciplinary database with many links to full text articles. Covers criminology well.

Family - 1980+ Bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on research, policy and practice issues about, or of relevance to, Australian families. Children, marriage, divorce, family relations, demography, economics and families, family health, family law, social issues, sociology.

Social Science Plus (Proquest 5000) - Covers a wide range of articles including many criminology sources. Many of the articles are full-text.

Some guides to these databases can be found at:

http://dydo.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/index.php?browse=14

Electronic Journals

This is a list of just some electronic criminology journals found through the library's system on the web.

To find these journals, click the Key resources link on this webpage:

Criminology

http://subjectresources.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/subject.php?subject=Criminology

Socio-Legal Studies

http://dozer.infodiv.unimelb.edu.au/SuRe/subject.php?subject=Socio-Legal+Studies

Government Publications

The University Library holds government documents. These include parliamentary papers, debates, votes, proceedings & journals, government gazettes, bills, laws, statutes, rules & regulations, and yearbooks. Increasingly it is possible to get parliamentary debates, papers and some publications on the WWW mainly from the Australian Government Home Page at http://www.australia.gov.au/

Starting Points in Research

Dictionaries, handbooks, encyclopedias and introductory guides are often useful starting points when writing essays. These are useful for Criminal Justice.

Champion, Dean J. 1997. The Roxbury dictionary of criminal justice: Key terms and major court cases. Los Angeles: Roxbury Pub. Co.UniM Baill 364.03 CHAM

Encyclopedia of crime and justice. 2002. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, v1-v4 UniM Baill REF 364.03 ENCY

Johnson, Elmer H. 1983. International handbook of contemporary developments in criminology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. UniM Baill 364 INTE : V.1 & 2 UniM Law KB 300 INTE v.1 & 2

Maguire, Mike, Rodney Morgan, and Robert Reiner. 1997. The Oxford handbook of criminology. Oxford [England] New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press. UniM Baill 364 OXFO

Walsh, Dermot and Adrian Poole. 1983. A dictionary of criminology. London; Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.UniM Baill REF 364.0321 DICT

Evaluation

As the process of research in the library allows for more and more information retrieval in many formats, the need to evaluate sources becomes very important. The WWW can give quick information but you need to look at how relevant, up-to-date, authoritative. Look at intended audience, coverage and writing style. For a more detailed guide to evaluating go to: http://www.lib.unimelb.edu.au/sg/evaluation/index.html

Storage of Information

Be sure to keep records of what databases you have searched and references located so that it is easy to prepare a bibliography at the end of your essays.

If you want to see what classes are being offered by the Information Division, like using the library catalogue or other electronic sources, have a look at the Information Literacy Program button on the Library's Home Page.