Ruth Gustafson
Student Services
Student Services and Researcher Services Librarian
530-752-1883
by Ruth Gustafson, Sheena M Campbell – February 7, 2022
Welcome to the UC Davis Library guide to forensic science which provides links to key information resources in this subject area. It describes and provides links to various types of content including articles, e-books & dissertations, government information & statistics, as well as methods & protocols.
FOR UCD students, faculty, and staff: With the re-opening of campus on Jan 31, 2022, feel free to book an appointment with Ruth for assistance in using these resources or for any questions you may have. Ruth will continue with Zoom appointments. (Exceptions will be made if in-person is the only/best option for the requestor.)
Off-Campus Access
Student Services
Student Services and Researcher Services Librarian
530-752-1883
Searching in a library catalog requires looking for broader topics such as forensic entomology or DNA fingerprinting rather than the more specific necrophagous flies or heterozygote single-source LR.
UC Davis theses and dissertations on Forensic Science may be found by searching this subject heading: Dissertations, Academic — University of California, Davis — Forensic Science
Typical CALL NUMBER areas for Forensic Science: general Forensic Science (HV 8073); or Molecular Forensics/Forensic Chemistry (RA 1057); or Forensic Toxicology (RA 1220s); or Fire Forensics (TH 9180).
Library of Congress Classification is used for all of the UCD libraries except the health sciences libraries (which use NLM — National Library of Medicine — classification). Learn about how books are arranged in the UCD libraries with this guide.
The UCD Mabie Law Library is part of the King Hall Law School but any UCD affiliate can visit the Library. Note that many online resources may be licensed for the Law School only. https://law.ucdavis.edu/library/
NOTE: For the first time, the collections of the Mabie Law Library are now part of the UC Library Search: UCD online catalog.
The Taylor & Francis eBooks collection includes a comprehensive forensic science subset of 100s of books formerly known as the CRC FORENSICnetBASE.
The OHE ebook collection comprises online-only how-to books on computers, computer programming and computer tech related devices.
The Taylor & Francis eBooks collection includes a comprehensive forensic science subset of 100s of books formerly known as the CRC FORENSICnetBASE.
The OHE ebook collection comprises online-only how-to books on computers, computer programming and computer tech related devices.
Methods in Enzymology is the classic laboratory methods/protocols book series. The complete backfile of the full-text is available back to volume 1 from 1955. As of 2017, videos are selectively being added to accompany the written methods. Direct article/chapter links are provided from core subject databases such as PubMed and BIOSIS Previews. Contains detailed protocols and descriptions of biochemical and biophysical techniques for research in biological and molecular sciences. More than 500 volumes are browse-able by individual volumes online from 1955 to the present or by searching across the collection by title, author, abstract, and keyword. Full-text access to articles is available in HTML and PDF formats.
Offers access to information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. TOXLINE is also part of TOXNET but the ProQuest version of TOXLINE has UC-eLinks which is not enabled in TOXNET.
Not all articles or ebooks will be available for download directly from a database. To access full-text articles and ebooks directly from databases (e.g., PubMed, Web of Science) and Google Scholar, click the Get it at UC button. If you are not on campus, be sure to connect to the library VPN to access your article.
Note that Get it at UC e-links can only connect you to material licensed or owned by the library. However, we can borrow material from other libraries, if you put in an Interlibrary Loan request:
Provides access to statistics for a variety of U.S. Department of Justice reports and documents as well as some international statistics on crime and criminal justice. Link to data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports and download data series. Includes surveys of DNA Crime Laboratories.
Describes or provides links to major FBI Forensic Systems such as the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS); National DNA Index System (NDIS); Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS); and Latent Print Unit.
Uniform Crime Reports is the FBI site providing Crime in the U.S. annual statistical reports,and additional reports including Hate Crime Statistics; Terrorism Statistics, and more data from the National Incident-Based Reporting System.
Related: Bureau of Justice Statistics releases statistical reports on corrections, courts and criminal justice. They also publish special topical reports.