Resources for Social Work

Reference Databases

Full Text Databases:

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

Annual Reviews - Annual Review of Sociology

Blackwell Synergy Journals - Social Science Quarterly

Cambridge Journals Online - Social Policy and Society

Child Welfare Information Gateway

JSTOR

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)

PsycARTICLES (EBSCO)

SAGE Journals - Sociology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 1952 - current

SocINDEX with Full Text

Social Sciences Full Text (Wilson)

Wiley Interscience - Social Sciences

Indexes with Abstracts:

AIDSearch

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database

ERIC (EBSCO)

PsycINFO 1887-Current (EBSCO)

Scopus (links to some full text)

Social Sciences Abstracts (Wilson)

Social Work Abstracts (Silverplatter)

Electronic Journals (type in “social work” in search box)

<http://dq9tx9bc6r.search.serialssolutions.com/>

Websites for Research

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

“...devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research”

http://www.ssrn.com/

Social Work Subject Guides

Social Work Library, Columbia University

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/socwk/guides/index.html

Social Welfare

University Libraries, SUNY-Albany

http://library.albany.edu/subject/socwork.htm

Topics in Social Work

Karen Hartman, Social Sciences / Social Work Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries

http://www.libraries.rutgers.edu/rul/rr_gateway/research_guides/social_work/topics.shtml

Select Web Resources of Interest to Social Workers
University of Wisconsin-Madison Social Work Library

http://socialwork.library.wisc.edu/sites-of-interest/index.html

Topics in Social Work

Derik Badman, Librarian, Temple University Libraries

http://155.247.160.19/articles/subject_guides/topics-socialwork.jsp?bhcp=1

Government Statistics for Social Work Research

Oviatt Library, California State University Northridge

http://library.csun.edu/mfinley/socialworkstats.html

Sample search: Statistics on Child and Family Well-Being - Child Trends DataBank – Connect me now – Child Trends Databank – Health – Mental Health - Suicidal Teens - See Figure 1 …

Social Work Resources at Yahoo!

http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Social_Work/

Social Science Dictionary

http://bitbucket.icaap.org/

Glossary of Selected Social Science Computing Terms and Social Science Data Terms

http://3stages.org/glossary/glossary.html

Medical Dictionary

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Medical Encyclopedia

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html

List and Glossary of medical terms: English

http://users.ugent.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/EN/lijst.html

Laws

http://www.laws.com

Social Work Research Topics

Topics in Social Work from Rutgers University Libraries

Aging/Gerontology

Community Violence

Children and Families

Disabilities

Domestic/Family Violence

Grants and Funding

Health and Mental Health

Housing and Homelessness

Poverty and Welfare Reform

Social Policy/Public Policy

Street Violence

Substance Abuse and Other Addictive Behaviors

From Opposing Viewpoints (Gale):

Abortion Adoption Affirmative action AIDS (Disease) Alcoholism Animal experimentation Animal rights Assisted suicide Athletes Bioethics Biological weapons Birth control Capital punishment Censorship Child abuse Church and state Civil rights Cloning Creationism Crime Death Divorce Domestic violence Drinking (Alcoholic beverages) Driving while intoxicated Drug abuse Drug traffic Drugs and athletes Eating disorders Education Elderly Emigration and immigration Employment Endangered species Environmentalism Euthanasia Evolution (Biology) Family Family relations Feminism Gambling Gangs Genetic engineering Genocide Global warming Globalization Gun control Hate crimes Health care reform Health insurance Homelessness Homosexuality Human rights Illegal immigrants Internet Iraq Islamic fundamentalism Juvenile drinking Juvenile drug abuse Juvenile offenders

Marijuana Media violence Medical care Medical ethics Mental disorders Mental health Middle East Minimum wage Narcotics legalization National security Nuclear weapons Nutrition Oceans Outsourcing Patriot Act 2001 Political corruption Pollution Population growth Pornography Poverty Prisons Race relations Racism Rape Religion Renewable energy Right of privacy Same sex marriage School violence Sex education Sexual behavior Slavery reparations Smoking Social security Stem cells Suicide Teenage pregnancy Teenage sexual behavior Terrorism United States foreign relations Violence War crimes Welfare reform Women Women's rights Working women Youth

Social Welfare & Social Work

Child & Youth Development

Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency

Disabilities

Family Violence

Gerontology

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Substance Abuse

Created: 9/22/2007 Last update: 4/25/11

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