This guide provides resources that may be helpful to Social Work classes.
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Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text database includes some of the most important English-language social science journals.
This database is the world's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association for the discovery of global scholarly research.
Includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
A freely available Black Lives Matter learning resource, featuring a rich collection of handpicked articles from the digital archives of over 50 different publications.
Provides access to the full-text of 300+ journals covering criminology, criminal justice, corrections and prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences, substance abuse and addiction, and probation and parole.
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Search and browse more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals across a range of disciplines, with materials dating back to 1999.
Need some help with these frequently-used terms?
Peer-reviewed journals (often called "scholarly" or "academic" journals) contain original research articles.
These articles have been reviewed by other scholars in the field - the authors' academic peers. The reviewers work to ensure the integrity and quality of the research being reported upon.
Empirical articles are based on experimentation or observation. In other words, they describe the results of research. Peer-reviewed articles usually describe empirical research.
Peer-reviewed articles may describe either qualitative or quantitative research.
Qualitative research tries to understand who, what, how, when, and why. It explores the nature of something. Typical approaches include observation, interviews, and focus groups.
Quantitative research describes how much or how often. It relies on statistics and variables to prove or disprove something.
Here's a short video describing the difference.
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