Article
Databases for Social Work.
Social
Work Abstracts [Off-campus
Access]
(1977 to the presen) Social Work Abstract is produced by the National
Association of Social Workers, Inc. and contains more than 40,000 records.
Citations are from social work and related journals and cover such topics
as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse,
legislation, community organization, and much more.
NCJRS Abstracts Database
contains
summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications. NCJRS
(National Criminal Justice Reference Service)
is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information
to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
Academic
Search Elite (EBSCOhost)[Off-campus
Access]
A multi-disciplinary database that offers full text for more
than 1,850 scholarly journals including 1,300 peer-reviewed
titles. It offers full text information dating as far back as
1985.
ISI Web of Knowledge [Off-campus Access] New
13,000 journals,23 million patents, 192,000 conference proceedings, 9,100 Web sites, 5,000 books, 2 million chemical structures, Over 100 years of backfiles, 40 million cited references added annually, 256 subject categoriesin Science, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.
LEXIS-NEXIS Academic
Search [Off-campus
Asccess]
includes full-text articles (found under "General News Topics" and "Medical
and Health" and "Law Reviews"). "General News Topics" includes newspaper
and journal articles. A very extensive collection of fulltext legal
materials is under "Federal Case Law," "U.S. Code, Constitution &
Court Rules" and "State Legal Research." A
title list is available for viewing.
INFOTRAC
Expanded Academic ASAP [Off-campus
Access]
(1980 to present) From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science
and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic
disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers
Wilson Web [Off-campus
Access]
Full text begins in 1994. OmniFile Full Text Mega 1982-present. Comprehensive
database covering Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Social Sciences
etc. Full text degins in 1994.
PSYCINFO
[Off-campus
Access]
PsycInfo contains summaries of articles from journals and chapters of
books in social work, psychology, psychiatry and related subjects. Because
of its research orientation and the large number of citations it contains,
this database is a very important source for social work research.
PsycARTICLES (EBSCOhost) [Off-campus Access]
Contains more than 100,000 full-text articles from 59 peer-reviewed journals and chapters from selected APA books.
JSTOR [Off-campus
Access]
Full-text articles and images from more than 120 scholarly journas.
Subjects covered include African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian
Studies, Ecology,Economics, Political Science, Education, Finance, History,
Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Population Studies, Sociology,
Statistics, and General Science Collection.
The
NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers [Off-campus
Access]
Listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for
education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification
Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.
The "NASW Register" has become an important resource for identifying
social workers who are qualified providers of mental health services.
It aims to advance sound professional practice standards by providing
a uniform method to identify qualified clinical social work practitioners.
National Conference of
Social Welfare Proceedings(1874-1982)
AARP's Ageline Database
AgeLine abstracts the literature of social gerontology as well as aging-related
research from psychology, sociology, social work, economics, public policy,
and the health sciences. It covers aging-related issues for professionals
in aging services, health, business, law, and mental health. AgeLine also
includes selected consumer content.
Dissertation Abstracts Online(FirstSearch) [Off-campus Access]
This database is primarily for doctoral students. It covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations.
Compiled by Miao Hong
