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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Research report every week examining a topic of national interest.
Oxford Academic Reference Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Oxford Reference offers full text access to numerous dictionaries and encyclopedias by Oxford University Press as well as selected titles from the Oxford Companion series.
PsycINFO 1640's--Current This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 5 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. 97 percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection provides access to databases covering international literature in social sciences. Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development. The database abstracts and indexes thousands of serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations and citations to book reviews.
Social Work Abstracts (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
Contains information on the fields of social work and human services from 1977 to present and provides coverage of all areas of the profession, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues and social problems. Practitioners and researchers in areas such as social sciences, gerontology, welfare, public health, criminology and education as well as all areas of human services, may benefit from using this database.
Subject Headings
- Family social work
- Social service
- Social work with immigrants
- Social work with minorities
- Social work with older people
- Social work administration
- Community organization
- Interviewing in social service
- Public welfare
- Social advocacy
- Social case work
Oxford Dictionary of Social Work & Social Care
Dictionary of Social Work & Social Care
Covering social work theories, methods, policies, organizations, and statutes, as well as key terms from interdisciplinary topics such as health and education....