SOCWORK 371: Social Work Practice I   Tags: course_guides, social_work  

This guide is designed to help students in the course, Social Work 371, find the Library resources needed for their research.

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Look in the following databases to locate articles related to Social Work

Social Work Abstracts (EBSCOhost)   
Restricted to 4 users at a time
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

Sociological Abstracts/Social Services Abstracts (CSA)
Contains records from journals covering sociology, social work, and other social sciences.

Social Sciences Full Text (WilsonWeb)
Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals.

SocIndex with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
Articles and abstracts for journals, books and monographs, and conference papers for topics in all areas of sociology.

You might try some of the following databases as well.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Multi-disciplinary database which provides more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.

CINAHL PLUS with Full Text (EBSCOhost)
CINAHL Plus with Full Text provides indexing for 3,001 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937.

PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost)
Provides full text articles on current issues in psychology from respected sources, spanning from 1988 to the present. PsycARTICLES includes more than 25,000 full-text articles from 42 journals published by American Psychological Association and allied organizations. All journals included in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.

PsycINFO (EBSCOhost)
PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, and books in psychology, as well as psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Includes PsycLit database.

ERIC (EBSCOhost)
The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information.

For a complete list of the Library's article databases, see the Alphabetical List of Indexes and Databases.

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