Table A2.
GPD search locations and protocol (January 1st 1950 to December 2018)
| Indexed and academic databases | Content coverage fed into osid? | Full or modified search? | Search modifications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProQuest | Criminal Justice | Yes | Full | None. |
| Dissertation and Theses Database Global | Not Available | Modified | Social Sciences subset. | |
| Political Science | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Periodical Archive Online | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Research Library | Yes | Modified | Social Sciences subset. | |
| Social Science Journals | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Sociology | Yes | Modified | Search 2 unique journal titles and nonserial content only. | |
| Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts | Yes | Full | None. | |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Public Affairs Information Service | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Social Services Abstracts | Yes | Modified | Search 5 unique journal titles and nonserial content only. | |
| Sociological Abstracts | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Worldwide Political Sciences Abstracts | Yes | Modified | Search 9 unique journal titles and nonserial content only. | |
| EBSCO | Academic Search Premier | Yes | Full | None. |
| Criminal Justice Abstracts | Yes | Full | None. | |
| EconLit | Yes | Full | None. | |
| MEDLINE with Full‐Text | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Social Sciences Full‐Text | Yes | Full | None. | |
| OVID | International Political Science Abstracts | Not Available | Full | None. |
| PsycARTICLES | Yes | Modified | Search 4 unique journal titles only. | |
| PsycEXTRA | Not Available | Full | None. | |
| PsycINFO | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Social Work Abstracts | Not Available | Full | None. | |
| Web of Science | Current Contents Connect – Social and Behavioural Sciences Edition | Yes | Modified | Search 1 unique journal title and nonserial content only. |
| Book Citation Index (Social Sciences and Humanities) | Not Available | Full | None. | |
| Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Social Sciences and Humanities) | Not Available | Full | None. | |
| Social Science Citation Index | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Informit | Australian Attorney‐General Information Service | Yes | Full | None. |
| Australian Criminology Database (CINCH) | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Australian Federal Police Database | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Australian Public Affairs Full‐Text | Yes | Full | None. | |
| DRUG | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Health & Society Database | Yes | Modified | Search unique journal titles and nonserial content only. | |
| Humanities and Social Sciences Collection | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Gale‐Cengage | Expanded Academic ASAP | Yes | Full | None. |
| Standalone and open access databases | Cambridge Journals Online | Yes | Modified | Search 4 unique journal titles in Law and Political Science collections and a full search of Social Studies collection. |
| Directory of Open Access Journals | Yes | Full | None. | |
| HeinOnline | Yes | Modified | Law Journals Online collection only. | |
| JSTOR | Yes | Modified | Search unique titles across the Law, Political Science, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Work and Sociology collections only. The Criminal Justice collection had no unique content and so will be excluded from the search. Only 10% of the content in this database have abstracts and a full‐text search returns > 250,000 results because of inability to construct complex search strings. Therefore, a modified search of the unique titles across these collections will be more pragmatic than a full search of the database. | |
| Oxford Scholarship Online | Yes | Full | None. | |
| Sage Journals Online and Archive (Sage Premier) | Yes | Modified | Search 5 unique journal titles and nonserial content only. | |
| ScienceDirect | Yes | Full | None. | |
| SCOPUS | Yes | Full | None. | |
| SpringerLink | Yes | Full | Although this database has low uniqueness when combined with the full set of databases, a full search using only the policing search terms will be more pragmatic than a modified search on unique titles because of the restricted search functionality of this database. | |
| Taylor & Francis Online | Yes | Modified | Although this database has low uniqueness when combined with the full set of databases, a full search using only the policing search terms will be more pragmatic than a modified search on unique titles because of the restricted search functionality of this database. | |
| Wiley Online Library | Yes | Full | None. | |
| California Commission on Peace Officer Standards & Training Library | No | Full | None. | |
| Cochrane Library | No | Full | None. | |
| CrimeSolutions.gov | No | Full | None. | |
| Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness (DARE) | No | Full | None. | |
| FBI – The Fault (Reports and Publications) | No | Full | None. | |
| Evidence‐Based Policing Matrix | No | Full | None. | |
| International Initiative for Impact Evaluation Database (3ie) | No | Full | None. | |
| National Criminal Justice Reference Service | No | Full | None. | |
| Safety Lit Database | No | Full | None. | |
| Australian Institute of Criminology | No | Full | None. | |
| Bureau of Police Research and Development (India) | No | Full | None. | |
| Canadian Police Research Catalogue | No | Full | None. | |
| Centre for Problem‐Oriented Policing | No | Full | None. | |
| College of Policing (including POLKA and Crime Reduction Toolkit) | No | Full | None. | |
| European Police College (CEPOL) | No | Full | None. | |
| Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre | No | Full | None. | |
| National Research Institute of Police Science (Japanese) | No | Full | None. | |
| Office of Community Oriented Policing Services | No | Full | None. | |
| Police Executive Research Forum (US) | No | Full | None. | |
| Police Foundation (US) | No | Full | None. | |
| Tasmania Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (Australia) | No | Full | None. | |
| Policing Online Information System (POLIS, Europe) | No | Full | None. | |
| Scottish Institute for Policing Research | No | Full | None. | |
| Centre of Excellence in Policing and Security (Australian, now archived) | No | Full | None. |