Welcome to the Social Work Research Guide!
A guide on searching for social work information for assignments & research (University of Regina).
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A note for instructors:
I am available to give your class an instructional session on searching for social work literature, or, more generally, information literacy.
Please contact me for more information.
Key Databases
- Social Services Abstracts
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Social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development; abstracts and indexes over 1,400 serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. - Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)Indexes journals, dissertations, books, and occasional papers. Subject areas: social work profession, theory and practice, related social issues and topics including homelessness, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, and community organization.
- Social Care Online Access the UK's most complete database of social care information, from fostering, to mental health, to human resources and more. Indexes research briefings, reports, government documents, journal articles, websites and more.
- APA PsycInfo (Ovid) An index to the international literature of psychology and material relevant to psychology in the related disciplines of education, medicine, business, sociology, and psychiatry.
Navigating this Research Guide
Use the tabs at the top of this Research Guide to find the specific resources or type(s) of information that you are looking for.
The Finding Articles and Videos page lists social work best bet databases for finding journal articles, as well as links to multidisciplinary and other discipline focused databases (for example, health sciences databases). If you are looking for organization guidelines, policy, etc. by region, try the Web Links page.
If you have any questions or comments about this Research Guide or the resources it points to, do not hesitate to contact me (Chris Read, Social Work Librarian).
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