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The Use of Electronic Resources in Forensic Sciences
Ruchareka Asavisanu
Information Specialist
Stang Mongkolsuk Library and Information Division
Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
scras@mahidol.ac.th
http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th
-----------------------------------------------"Forensic" comes to us from the Latin forensus, meaning "of the forum." In Ancient Rome, the
forum was where governmental debates were held, but it was also where trials were held. It was the
courthouse. So forensic science has come to mean the application of the natural and physical sciences to
the resolution of conflicts within a legal setting.
… Forensic Solutions LLC
http://www.forensic-science.com
The Forensic Sciences Keywords :
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Computer Forensics
Computer Crime Investigation
Crime Scene Investigation
Criminal Investigation / Criminal Profiling
Criminalistics and Trace Evidence
Cybercrime Specialist
Death Investigation
Digital Forensics
Expert Witness
Fingerprint Analysis
Firearms Examination
Forensic Evidence (Electronic / Digital Evidence, Biological Evidence, Physical Evidence)
Forensic Art
Forensic Anthropology
Forensic Biology
Forensic Botany and Palynology
Forensic Ballistics
Forensic Chemistry and Toxicology
Forensic DNA Analysis
Forensic Dentistry
Forensic Entomology
Forensic Genetics
Forensic Hematology
Forensic Medicine
Forensic Odontology
Forensic Pathology
Forensic Pharmacology
Forensic Photography / Videography
Forensic Psychiatry / Psychology
Forensic Sciences
Forensic Serontology / Serology
Forensic Statistics
Homicide Investigation
Rape Investigation
Sex Crimes Investigation
Related E-Databases :
SCFS 503 : Professional Aspects of Forensic Science (2 credits)
May 17, 2005, 1.30-4.00 p.m. N201 Room, New Biology (N) Building, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
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(See the complete list of e-databases from Stang Mongkolsuk Library website at
http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th/text/ebase.htm )
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Academic Search Premier (ASP)
http://www.ebscohost.com
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier
provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600
peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over
one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000
titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Online Subscription | by Mahidol University
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Blackwell Synergy
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com
Blackwell Synergy is the online journals service from Blackwell Publishing. It holds
the content for 805 Blackwell's journals, the majority of which are published on behalf of
international scholarly and professional societies. Blackwell Synergy enables readers to
search for relevant articles, read abstracts for free, print the full-text of subscribed to
articles, download citations, and make connections to other relevant research through
reference linking.
Online Subscription | by Mahidol University
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ISI Web of Knowledge
Web of Science
http://isiknowledge.com
http://isiknowledge.com/wos
Web of Science® consists of five databases containing information gathered from
thousands of scholarly journals in all areas of research:
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Science Citation Index Expanded™
Social Sciences Citation Index®
Arts & Humanities Citation Index®
Index Chemicus®
Current Chemical Reactions®
A citation index contains the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by
the index. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited
reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. In
addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author,
source title, and address.
Science Citation Index Expanded is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of
the sciences. It fully indexes 5,900 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines
Online Subscription | by ThaiLis–UniNet
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Proquest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT)
http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American
graduate schools and European universities. It includes citations for materials ranging
from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last
semester. PQDT provides web-based access to citations and abstracts, and free 24 page
previews of dissertations and theses published after 1996.
Online Subscription | by ThaiLIS - UniNet
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PubMed
http://pubmed.gov
SCFS 503 : Professional Aspects of Forensic Science (2 credits)
May 17, 2005, 1.30-4.00 p.m. N201 Room, New Biology (N) Building, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations
for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and
additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text
articles and other related resources.
Free Database | Produced by NLM
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ScienceDirect
http://www.sciencedirect.com
Since its launch in 1997, ScienceDirect has evolved from a web database of Elsevier
journals to one of the world's largest providers of scientific, technical and medical
(STM) literature. Its collection includes more than 1,800 Elsevier journals, and over 6
million full-text articles spanning 24 subjects in life, physical, social and health sciences.
Online Subscription | by ThaiLis–UniNet
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SciFinder Scholar
http://www.cas.org/SCIFINDER/SCHOLAR/index.html
SciFinder Scholar is today's leader in providing the most accurate and comprehensive
chemical and related scientific information. This desktop research tool provides easy
access to the rich and diverse scientific information offered by the CAS databases such as
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patent and journal references
substance information
chemical reactions
chemical supplier information
regulated chemicals
(CAPlus & MEDLINE)
(CAS Registry)
(CHEMREACT)
(CHEMCATS)
(CHEMLIST)
Download SciFinder Search software at http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th/text/ebase.htm
Online Subscription (3 users) | by Mahidol Univ.
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SCOPUS
http://www.scopus.com
Scopus is a unique new navigational product for all science from Elsevier. Apart from being
the world's biggest full-text linking, abstracting-and-indexing database covering 25
million abstracts from over 14,000 titles across 4,000 publishers, Scopus also
offers powerful and innovative searching and browsing tools.
Elsevier's ScienceDirect product covers 1,800 full text journals from Elsevier only, while
Scopus opens access to other STM publishers-and 14,000 titles.
(Free trial, until December 2005)
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SpringerLink
http://springerlink.metapress.com
SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in
biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer
science, humanities, and economics.
Springer has combined two of the world’s leading research powerhouses – SpringerLink
and KluwerOnline – to bring you the new SpringerLink. Home to thousands of
journals and eBooks.
Online Subscription | by Mahidol University
Full-text Forensic Science E-Journals :
SCFS 503 : Professional Aspects of Forensic Science (2 credits)
May 17, 2005, 1.30-4.00 p.m. N201 Room, New Biology (N) Building, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
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(See URLs of the whole list of e-journals subscribed by Mahidol University and some open access
journals from the library website at http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th/text/ejournal.htm )
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American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Digital Investigation
Environmental Forensics
Forensic Science Communications
Forensic Science International
International Journal of Legal Medicine
International Journal of Police Science & Management
Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry
Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology
Journal of Forensic Sciences
Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Legal Medicine
Pharmacology & Toxicology
(OVID)
(AR)
(ScienceDirect)
(ScienceDirect)
(FBI Laboratory)
(ScienceDirect)
(SpringerLink)
(ASP)
(ScienceDirect)
(ASP)
(ASP)
(AAFS / ASTM)
(Kluwer / SpringerLink)
(ScienceDirect)
(Blackwell Synergy)
Not subscribed. Full-text not available :
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Journal of Forensic Identification
Journal of the Canadian Society of Forensic Science
Legal and Criminological Psychology
Medicine, Science and the Law
Science & Justice – Journal of the Forensic Science Society
Print Journals :
Journal of Forensic Sciences
v1, 1956-present
(LISI = Siriraj Medical Library)
You can check journal holdings from the library homepage, Library Online Catalogs (OPAC) and
JournalLink website (Union List of Serials in Thai libraries) at http://www.journallink.or.th
Journal Impact Factor :
Journal Impact Factor is from Journal Citation Report (JCR) database, a product of Thomson ISI
(Institute for Scientific Information). JCR provides quantitative tools for ranking, evaluating,
categorizing, and comparing 5,907 scientific journals. The impact factor is one of these; it is
a measure of the frequency with which the "average article" in a journal has been cited in a
particular year or period.
Journal Name
International Journal of Legal Medicine
Forensic Science International
Journal of Forensic Sciences
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology
Check Impact Factor of the journals from
Impact Factor
2.093
1.616
1.237
0.527
http://stang.sc.mahidol.ac.th/text/if.htm
Books :
Forensic science books are available at Stang Mongkolsuk Library (LISC), Siriraj Medical Library (LISI),
Ramathibodi Medical Library (LIRA), and International College Library at Salaya (LIIC)
Search your required books from Mahidol Library Catalogs (WebOPAC) at :
http://www.li.mahidol.ac.th/library/opaceng.htm
Example Books :
SCFS 503 : Professional Aspects of Forensic Science (2 credits)
May 17, 2005, 1.30-4.00 p.m. N201 Room, New Biology (N) Building, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University
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1. C.G.G. Aitken, D.A. Stoney. The use of statistics in forensic science. New York: Ellis
Horwood, c1991.
LC & NLM Call No. : HV8073 A311u 1991
Location :
LISC
2. Colin G.G. Aitken, Franco Taroni. Statistics and the evaluation of evidence for
forensic scientists. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley, c2004.
LC & NLM Call No. : HV8073 A311s 2004
Location :
LISI
3. Henry C. Lee, Timothy Palmbach, Marilyn T. Miller. Henry Lee’s crime scene handbook.
Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2001.
LC & NLM Call No. : HV8073 L478h 2001
Location :
LISI, LISC
4. Peter White. Crime scene to court : the essentials of forensic science. Cambridge:
Royal Society of Chemistry, Information Services, c1998.
LC & NLM Call No. : HV8073 C929 1998
Location :
LISC, LICL (Central Library)
5. Richard Saferstein. Forensic science handbook. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 2002.
LC & NLM Call No. : W775 F715 V.1 2002
Location :
LISC
6. Richard Saferstein. Criminalistics: an introduction to forensic science. 8th ed. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004.
LC & NLM Call No. : W700 S128c 2004
Location :
LISC
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American Academy of Forensic Sciences. [Online]. Available URL: http://www.aafs.org
[May 16, 2005].
Carpenter’s Forensic Science Resources. [Online]. Available URL:
http://www.tncrimlaw.com/forensic [May 16, 2005].
Cynthia Holt. Forensic Science Resources on the Internet. [Online]. Available URL:
http://www.istl.org/03-spring/internet.html [May 16, 2005].
Dr. Henry Lee. [Online]. Available URL: http://www.drhenrylee.com [May 16, 2005].
Dr. Adrian MT Linacre. [Online]. Available URL:
http://www.chem.strath.ac.uk/people.php?id=cbas43 [May 16, 2005].
Forensic Solutions LLC. Forensic Science. [Online]. Available URL: http://www.forensicscience.com [May 16, 2005].
Zeno’s Forensic Science Site. [Online]. Available URL: http://forensic.to/forensic.html
[May 16, 2005].
SCFS 503 : Professional Aspects of Forensic Science (2 credits)
May 17, 2005, 1.30-4.00 p.m. N201 Room, New Biology (N) Building, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University