Suggested Databases
- Academic Search Complete EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals - of which more than 7,300 are peer-reviewed journals.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications using a variety of flexible search options. Access over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources.
- Newspaper Source EBSCO This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for more than national and international newspapers - including Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Times (London), Toronto Star - and selective full text for 390 U.S. regional newspapers in a searchable archive.
- Search OWL (Oakton's Whole Library)
Via this link you can search for books, news articles, and academic articles. It casts a very wide net so you'll have to narrow your search quite a bit.
Suggested Links
- U.S. Refugee Admissions ProgramU.S. Department of state website explains the definition and process for refugees seeking entry into the united states.
- U.S. Government Refugee infoThis information is from the government website, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
- Mapping Police Violence"This information has been meticulously sourced from the three largest, most comprehensive and impartial crowdsourced databases on police killings in the country: FatalEncounters.org, the U.S. Police Shootings Database and KilledbyPolice.net. We've also done extensive original research to further improve the quality and completeness of the data; searching social media, obituaries, criminal records databases, police reports and other sources to identify the race of 90 percent of all victims in the database."
- Campaign ZeroCampaign Zero is a project of the non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, WeTheProtesters. Funds donated to Campaign Zero support the analysis of policing practices across the country, research to identify effective solutions to end police violence, technical assistance to organizers leading police accountability campaigns and the development of model legislation and advocacy to end police violence nationwide.
- Chicago Police Department's home pageUse the CPD website to learn more about how CPD describes itself, its policies, procedures and more.
- Skokie Police DepartmentLearn more about how the Skokie Police department describes itself, its policies, programs and procedures.
- Des Plaines Police DeptUse this website to learn about how the DP police department describes itself, its programs, policies, and procedures.