Lauris Olson
Librarian & Coordinator, Social Sciences Collections
As the Penn Libraries' social sciences bibliographer - now coordinator for social sciences collections - since 1998, Lauris is responsible for selecting books, journals, electronic resources, and other media supporting Penn research and instruction in sociology, economics, linguistics, criminology, communication, and related fields. Lauris is Penn's Official Representative to the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research and the contact person for the Penn Libraries' Pennsylvania State Data Center affiliate membership. Lauris coordinates collection development and management activities of subject librarians for anthropology & archaeology, business, education, gender, women's studies & sexuality, political science & international relations, psychology, and social policy & practice/social work. Lauris is also the Penn Libraries' African studies bibliographer. Lauris started at the Penn Libraries in 1991 as a Van Pelt Library reference librarian, but Lauris's presence at Penn began in 1975 as an undergraduate, earning BA and MA degrees in Anthropology here, alongside a Drexel library degree.
Criminal Justice Abstracts is the leading database for finding journal articles in criminology and related fields. The Penn Libraries have upgraded our subscription to include full text for several hundred academic journals, trade publications, magazines, and conference papers and proceedings.
The new Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text provides subject indexing for articles appearing in more than 500 academic journals and 100 magazines and trade publications in criminology, criminal justice, law enforcement, forensic sciences, criminal law, victim services and victimology, and crime-related sociology, psychology, and social work. Fulltext in PDF or HTML is now available for almost 350 journals and magazines, with more than 180 titles having current fulltext with no embargo.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text indexes 20 academic journals in criminology with runs of fifty or more years, and offers fulltext for six of these long-lived academic journals. The database provides PDF fulltext for more than 9,000 conference papers presented at the annual meetings of the American Society of Criminology, 2005-present, and selected papers from the British Criminology Conference, 2010-present.