Forensic Science

This is UCLan's Forensic Science library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Faculty Librarian: Bob Frost

Find out about Library Search

Books

Use Library Search to locate print books. The catalogue will tell you exactly what we have in stock and where it is located.

Alternatively, use Reading Lists Online to locate items on your module reading lists.

Forensic Science eBooks/collections which may be useful include:

Multi-Subject eBook Collections

Top Tip! Although you'll find all titles within the e-book collections on Library Search , if you visit the collections directly you can then search within the full-text of the books. It may be a book you wouldn’t have thought looking at has a very relevant chapter – the catalogue wouldn’t be able to identify this for you

Journals and Articles

Finding specific journals or journal articles

If you have a reference for a particular journal article, or if you want to find out if we take a particular journal title, use the Journal Finder.

Searching for journal articles (Multi-subject, full-text, journal databases)

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full-Text - articles, books and reports in criminology. Subjects cover criminal justice; criminal law and procedure; corrections and prisons; police and policing; criminal investigation; forensics sciences and investigation; history of crime; substance abuse and addiction; probation and parole.
Taylor & Francis Collection - over 1,750 journal titles including Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, Forensic Science Policy & Management and Journal of Forensic Social Work
ProQuest Hospital Collection - covers many health related subject areas, such as Pathology & Psychiatry and includes journals such as Forensic Science Communication and Journal of Forensic Biomechanics
ScienceDirect- 2,000 scientific, technical and medical related titles including Forensic Science International: Genetics Supplement Series and Journal of Forensic & Legal Medicine
SpringerLink - 1,200 science, technology and medicine peer-reviewed journals including Forensic Toxicology & Forensic Science, Medicine and Pathology
Academic Search Complete - A full-text database of over 6,000 journals in most subject areas, titles include Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology and Issues in Forensic Psychology
Dentistry & Oral Sciences Sources - Includes Indian Journal of Forensic Odontology and Journal of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology

Searching for journal articles (Abstracting & indexing databases)

Should you want to undertake a more thorough search for research materials/literature, try searching the following abstract and indexing databases. Unlike our other databases, generally you will only find the abstract of articles within these databases. Conference papers are also available too.

Additional Resources

UCLan subscribes to a range of additional e-resources, aside from the e-journals, which you will not find freely available on the Web. Within the forensic science discipline you may find the following useful:

Nexis UK - local, regional, national and international news archive
Lexis Library - UK law reports and legislation together with legal journals. It also incorporates the online version of Halsbury's Laws of England; a key legal research encyclopedia covering all aspects of English Law.
Westlaw - law reports and legislation from the UK and Europe, together with many legal journals.
Zetoc - British Library's electronic table of contents of current journals and conference proceedings