Library: Social Work: Social Work

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This guide provides resources that may be helpful to Social Work classes.

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Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings.
Social Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
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.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to 4,000+ scholarly journals covering many subject disciplines.
APA PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Delve into the science of psychology and behavior with PsycARTICLES, the database of full-text peer-reviewed articles published by the American Psychological Association and affiliated journals.
APA PsycInfo This link opens in a new window
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.
Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions.

Find resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions. Includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.
Black Lives Matter Learning Resources This link opens in a new window
A freely available Black Lives Matter learning resource, featuring a rich collection of handpicked articles from the digital archives of over 50 different publications.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
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.
eBook Collections (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 280,000 ebooks across a variety of subject disciplines.
SAGE Premier This link opens in a new window
Search and browse more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals across a range of disciplines, with complimentary access back to 1999.