Social Work

Electronic Databases

Subject Specific Databases:

  • SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, gerontology, marriage & family, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse, violence and many others. Ebsco features more than 1,660,000 records with full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.
  • PsycINFO indexes and abstracts more than 1500 scholarly psychology journals, books, chapters in books, and dissertations. Links to journal articles that are full text in EBSCO Academic.
  • NCJRS Abstracts (Criminal Justice)  The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 160,000 criminal justice publications, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

General or Related Databases:

  • Article First  indexes complied from the tables of contents from 12,500 journals 1990 to the present.
  • Ebscohost is a collection of general reference and subject-specific research databases offering indexing and abstracting for periodical and newspaper articles; some full-text.
  • Ethnic News Watch is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
  • Population Index (1990-present) covers all fields of interest to demographers, including fertility, mortality, population size and growth, migration, nuptiality and the family, research methodology, projections and predictions, historical demography, and demographic and economic interrelations. Monographs, journal articles, other serial publications, working papers, doctoral dissertations, and machine-readable data files are indexed.
  • WorldCat is a union catalog of thousands of libraries around the world containing over 41 million records of books, journals, manuscripts, videos, music scores and recordings.

Print Materials

General and Subject Encyclopedias

  • Encyclopedia of Drugs and Alcohol. [Reference] HV5804 .E53 1995 v. 1-4 catalog record
  • Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior. [Reference] HV6017 .E53 2001 v.1-4 catalog record
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. [Reference] H41 .I5 v.1-18 catalog record
  • Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family. [Reference] HQ9 .E52 1995 v. 1-2 catalog record
  • Encyclopedia of Social Work. [Reference] HV .S6 1995 v. 1-3 catalog record
  • International Encyclopedia of Statistics. [Reference] HA17 .I63 v. 1-2 catalog record

Dictionaries

  • The Social Work Dictionary. [Reference] HV12 .B37 1995 catalog record

Handbooks

  • Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences. [Main Library] HQ1061 .H336 1996 catalog record
  • Handbook of Applied Social Research Methods. [Main Library] H62 .H24534 1998 catalog record
  • Handbook of Qualitative Research. [Main Library] H62 .H2455 2000 catalog record
  • Handbook of Statistical Modeling for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. [Main Library] HA29 .H2487 1995 catalog record
  • Violence in America: An Encyclopedia. [Reference] HN90 .V5 V5474 1999 v. 1-3 catalog record

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