Criminal Justice 

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• Visit the reference desk
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Reference hours:

• Mon-Thurs: 10a-9p
• Fri: 10a-5p
• Sat: 12p-4p
• Sun: 1p-9p

When you're on-campus, you're within the University's IP range. So if you're using Google Scholar and click out to an article on a journal's website or in a subscription database, you will be seemlessly authenticated and given access to (pretty much) whatever we subscribe to.

From the Library’s homepage, go to the Library Catalog.

Change the Material Type to Periodicals. (Periodicals are newspapers, magazines & journals.)

Then search the title of the journal (not the title of the article.)

If St. Edward's has access to that journal, you'll see a list of the databases that it's in, plus the date range. (Or we might have the journal in print or microfilm! Same deal.) For example, see Consumer Reports, below:

Check the date of your citation against that date range. Got a match? Then we have access.

Click the name of the database. You'll go to the journal "homepage" in the database. Then use the chronological navigation tools to find the volume you need, and scroll to find your article. For example:

If it's print or microfilm, it's at the library.

If we don't have access to your journal, you may request the article via Interlibrary Loan.

Getting articles or books St. Ed’s doesn’t own:

If you have used the Library Catalog and determined that St. Ed’s doesn’t have access to the book, article or journal you want, try one of these methods. Don’t ever pay for an article without trying Interlibrary Loan!

Interlibrary Loan: the library will try to borrow books or articles for you from other libraries at no charge.  Articles come via email, so make sure to register with an email account you check regularly.

TexShare: the library will issue you a card that allows you to access many other Texas libraries. Visit the Circulation Desk or click the link.