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University of Southern Maine
Libraries & Learning

CRM 402: Criminology Capstone: Our Library Session

Learning objectives for this class

After our library session, you will be able to:

- Locate Criminal Justice Abstracts and other relevant databases from the library homepage

- Know how to log in to USM's subscription databases from off campus

- Construct a search in Criminal Justice Abstracts that retrieves a reasonable number of relevant results

- Use Find It successfully most of the time

- Be able to distinguish among various kinds of citations - books, government documents, journal articles, etc.

- Determine whether USM has an article or book for which you already have a citation

- Get in touch with a live library staff member who will be able to help if all else fails