Subject & Course Guides

Subject Guide for Forensic Science

FINDING ARTICLES

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Franco Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Forensic Science Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library Web site.

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

WorldCat 179 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

A good way to start your research is to read brief overviews about your topic. Reference books provided an overview as well as a sense of the scope of a topic, and introduce terms that may be helpful in searching for additional information. Examples of books with background information and reference sources are listed below:

Reference Collection

Environmental Forensics R344.7304 M881 2000

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science R363.25 C752 2002

Encyclopedia of Forensic Science R363.25 E56 2000

Forensic Science Handbook R363.25 F715 2002

McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology R503 M1478

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms R503 M147 2003

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics R541 C517 2002

Current Protocols in Toxicology R615.9 C976

ONLINE BOOKS

NetLibrary

Over 12,000 ebooks covering a broad range of subject areas.

Several examples of ebooks on addictions include:

• Incident Response & Computer Forensics (2003)
• Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics (2004)
• A Question of Evidence: A Casebook of Great Forensic Controversies, From Napoleon to O.J. (2003)
• Scene of the Cybercrime: Computer Forensics Handbook (2002)

Biomedical books

Your comments are welcome.