LibGuides: Social Work: Articles

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The databases below are recommended by the Research Librarian for Social Work.

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Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Social Services Abstracts 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 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
PsycINFO provides access to abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations. It is provides peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health, and contains citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s.
PsycINFO is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA's Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®. Included is information on the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the 1800s to the present, includes international material selected from periodicals in dozens of languages.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Annual Reviews provides researchers, professors, and scientific professionals with a definitive academic resource in more than 45 scientific disciplines.

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Additional Social Work Databases for Your Research

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Humanities + Social Science) This link opens in a new window
Access to citations for dissertations and theses written for humanities and social sciences degrees, including full-text (PDF) of most since 1997.
PILOTS: Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress This link opens in a new window
The PILOTS bibliographic database includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and offers both current and retrospective coverage.
Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Online legal research database that provides access to case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary, full-text database offering full-text articles, including peer-reviewed titles; also includes indexing and abstracts. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Scopus This link opens in a new window
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Search for articles from a very large but selective list of high-impact research journals. Provides complete reference list for covered journals, robust citation tracing tools and research metrics. Includes selected book chapters and conference proceedings.

Social Work Journals in Academic Journal Collections

University Library subscriptions usually include most but not all of the content available from these sites. The number of social work titles available to Stanislaus users are listed below.

Wiley Online: Social Work
The University Library subscribes to over 40 journals in social work. This subscription also includes over 1000 journals in all disciplines.
SAGE Premier
The University Library subscribes to over 450 journals covering most disciplines, including 16 social work journals.

Browse within "SAGE Journals available to me:"
+ Social Sciences & Humanities
> Social Work
SpringerLink: Social Work Journals
The University Library subscription includes over 1000 journals published by Springer covering all disciplines, especially strong in the sciences, including 7 journals published by Springer covering Social Work.
Selected Journals
Selected University Library subscriptions to social work journals.

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