Fall 2009
These are the main sources for identifying articles and books in Social Work and related fields.
Subject Portal » Social Work
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- Susan Turkel (BMC)
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PsycINFO
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journals, books, book chapters, technical reports and dissertations. Areas covered include psychology and related disciplines, sociology, linguistics, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, and anthropology. Covers 1887-present.
Social work abstracts
Provides abstracts of journal articles from social work and other related areas. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers. Covers 1977-present.
Social services abstracts
Use this resource to locate journal articles in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Covers 1980-present.
Finding articles on special populations:
Child welfare information gateway
Provides access to print and electronic publications covering a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, adoption, search and reunion, and more. Use the "Library Search" feature to find citations to journal articles, books, and evaluation reports on these topics.
Family & society studies worldwide
Provider: Ebsco
Provides abstracts for journal articles, books, book chapters, government reports, and more about all areas of family studies, including marriage, divorce, chidren, aging, domestic violence, and much more. Materials from all areas of the social sciences are included (i.e., psychology, sociology, social work, public policy, education, law, history), and some full text is linked. Covers materials published since 1970.
NCJRS abstracts database
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts contains summaries of more than 185,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
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CQ researcher
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1991-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1991-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1991-present.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly, Inc.
Offers full-text reports on current and controversial world issues. Topics include social,environmental, health, education, science and technology issues. Covers 1991-present.
CQ weekly
Holdings:
(Bryn Mawr College) Available from 1983-present.
(Haverford College) Available from 1983-present.
(Swarthmore College) Available from 1983-present.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Congressional Quarterly,
Offers comprehensive, non-partisan, coverage of the U.S. Congress including bill status, votes, debates and amendments. Includes full-text articles published since 1983. Covers 1983-present.
PAIS international
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.
PolicyFile
Provider: Chadwyck-Healey
Provides online access to abstracts and full-text articles on public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.Covers a wide range of topics from international trade to health care reform, from telecommunications regulation to terrorism. Coverage varies.
More Resources for Finding Journal Articles:
Applied social sciences index and abstracts
Provider: CSA
Coverage includes all branches of the applied social sciences dating back to 1987.
Google scholar
"Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web"--About Google Scholar.
JSTOR
Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.
ProQuest Research Library
Provider: ProQuest
Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971 - present.
PubMed
Provider: NCBI
Includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
ScienceDirect
Provides full-text,online access to journal articles in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full-text is available only for journals to which the TriColleges subscribe. Full-text access for most journals goes back to 1993.
Sociological abstracts
Holdings:
1963-
Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,
Provider: CSA
Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal articles. Covers 1963-present.
Web of science
Provider: ISI
Provides access to the Social Sciences Citation Index. This multidisciplinary database can be searched by subject, author, and journal title. Articles that cite a known author or work can also be searched: click Cited Reference Search. Cited reference searching helps identify more recent articles on the same topic. Covers 1956-present.
EBSCO HealthSource: Nursing/Academic (Requires PA public library card)
PA residents: Navigate to your public library's website, then look for AccessPA Power Library. When you click on the database link, you will be prompted for your barcode.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is an excellent resource for all health and medical research. Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on all areas of medicine and related fields, including psychology and social work. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage from 1975-present.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition is an excellent resource for all health and medical research. Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on all areas of medicine and related fields, including psychology and social work. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. Coverage from 1975-present.
Tests and Measurements:
Locating Psychological and Educational Tests and Measurements
This site explains the processes for identifying and locating published and nonpublished psychological and educational tests and measurements. Provided by the Social Work Library at the University of Michigan.
Resources for Psychological and Educational Tests and Measurements
Identifies databases and reference books that provide information on tests and measures, and explains when to use each resource. Provided by the Social Work Library at the University of Michigan.
Frequently Asked Questions: Finding Information About Psychological Tests
Describes the differences between published and nonpublished tests, and gives specific hints on which reference tool might be most useful for your need. Also provides advice on identifying and obtaining tests. Provided by the APA.
Tests and measures in the social sciences
This site provides a searchable index to complete testing instruments that are reproduced in more than 115 printed reference books.
ETS Test Collection Database
Provides information about 20,000 tests and other measurement devices. The database is a comprehensive listing of assessment instruments from the early 1900s to the present. It does not provide the full instrument.
Health and psychosocial instruments
Provider: Ovid
Provides information on measurement instruments including questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes/manuals, rating scales, projective techniques and tests in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. Covers 1985-present.
Selected online reference books:
Cambridge encyclopedia of child development
Provides an interdisciplinary approach to everything from prenatal development to education, pediatrics, neuroscience, theories and research methods to physical development, social development, cognitive development, psychopathology and parenting. It also looks at cultural issues, sex differences and the history of child development.
Encyclopedia of applied psychology
Encompasses topics including aging (geropsychology), assessment, clinical, cognitive, community, counseling, educational, environmental, family, industrial/organizational, health, school, sports, and transportation psychology. Each entry provides a clear definition, a brief review of the theoretical basis, and emphasizes major areas of application.