I need to tap the DU braintrust for college help

[anti_shrub]

My g/f is in a masters program for criminology and need articles on terrorism that are either from a scholarly type journal or some kind of peer review. Stuff like magazine articles won't cut it.

Assistance would be appriciated by her ever loving boyfriend who's trying to keep a nervous breakdown from happening! :)

[Don_G]

1. She Might Have To Check With A Professor

At a College that offeres degrees in Police Science or possibly Forensic Science. If they don't have any professional jorrnals in the Library then they would probably know of related publications in the field.

[anti_shrub]

2. They do, but....

Terrorism is such a new topic that a lot of the stuff happening now isn't in the journals they have on hand.

[Don_G]

4. There Is Bound To Be Something

On the first bombing of the World Trade Center and the Middle Eastern conflicts since 1948.

[NaMeaHou]

3. start with

http://www.crimelibrary.com/


and go from there.

they have a section on terrorists.

[anti_shrub]

5. Nice site

This will probably help, thanks!

[salin]

6. probably not going to find as much peer reviewed

articles from the net. Best to go through the university and various academic data bases and specify in the search - research journals. There might be different angles to go through searches in databases tailored to different disciplines. Eg - economic costs of.. in sociology - root causes, societal responses to.. etc. Would presume there are some data bases for info in journals related to criminal justice - and to law. Best to utilize the U resources for this (heck - it is buried in somewhere with all of those fees she undoubtedly has to pay - in terms of access to such databases through the university library system.)

[chrisesq]

7. Try the University of Pittsburgh School of Law

I was in there recently and they have an excellent law library. It is a public school so anyone is permitted to use it, however if she is a Pitt student, that won't be a problem. (of course I am assuming you are in PGH, due to the avatar you are using)

Anyway, she should look at law review articles. There should be quite a few on terrorism, as it is the hot topic right now. It should be noted that most, if not all, of the articles will contain some legal aspect, so that may be outside of what she is looking for.

She should ask at the front desk on how to search law review articles, they can help, whether or not they will is a different story depending on how busy they are.

If that fails, send me a private message or e-mail, I have a contact with the US DoD who briefs the armed forces on terrorism and cross cultural communications. He has done this for the past 25 years and has written several books on the topic. In fact, he gave a lecture at Pitt on terrorism about a month after 9/11. I may be able to pick his brain for sources.