Research Guide for Social Work

• Finding Articles
• Finding Authoritative Web Sites
• Finding Books, Videos, DVDs, & CDs
• Domestic Violence Resources
• Online Books

FINDING ARTICLES

Sociology

EBSCO's Sociology databases searches SocINDEX™ with Full Text and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. SocINDEX™ with Full Text encompasses the broad spectrum of sociological study with abstracts for more than 815 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The full text for 397 "core" and 150 "priority" coverage journals dating back to 1908, are covered. Books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources are also included.

EBSCO Education & ERIC

EBSCO's Education searches three databases, Professional Development Collection ™, ERIC ®, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Most of the citations in these databases link to the full text of the article. You can search individual databases by going to EBSCO Database Selection . Additional search features are provided when you limit your search to a single database

ProQuest Education Journals

ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 700 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

Psychology

EBSCO's Psychology searches three databases, PsycINFO ®, PsycARTICLES, and the multidisciplinary Academic Search ™ Premier. Searches can be limited to the PsycINFO database by going to EBSCO Database Selection. This will allow you to search using an electronic version of APA's official Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms ® .

JSTOR

JSTOR is a non-profit organization that archives scanned images of journal issues and pages. Alvernia College has access to the Arts & Sciences I, II and IV Collections. These collections include many of the core research and society published journals in key fields in the humanities and social sciences, and a limited number of journals in the sciences.

LexisNexis Academic

Legal Research
This full text database includes case law, law reviews, legal news, state and federal codes, federal regulations, European Union law and patents.

Medical News 47 Titles
This is a database of full text articles in the fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, all titles to present)

Medical Journals 20 Titles
This is an index of full-text journal articles in fields of life sciences, medicine, & health. (Dates of coverage: varies by title, 11 titles to present)

Medical Abstracts
This is an index to the abstracts of journal articles in the National Library of Medicine's Medline (Dates of coverage: 1966-present)

News
This full text database includes U.S. & International news from newspapers, magazines, journals, television and radio news broadcasts.

ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodical Index

This database covers a broad range of criminal justice topics, including corrections administration, law enforcement, social work, industrial security, drug rehabilitation, and criminal and family law. (dates of coverage: 1981 – present)

WestLaw Campus Research

WestLaw Research Campus is an online legal research tool for students interested in law-related areas such as criminal justice, social work, business, education and law. In addition to primary legal information consisting of case law, and state and federal statutes, this resource provides summaries and analysis of court decisions, law reviews, and synopsis of legal issues.

Please note that in order to access this database, WestLaw requires users to check the I agree button at the bottom of the terms of agreement page.   

FINDING AUTHORITATIVE WEB SITES

Franco Library’s Internet Reference Library

The Internet Reference Library has a list of selected Social Work Web sites. The Internet Reference Library can be accessed from the Resources page of the Library website.

Alvernia Library Research Page

The Research Guides page, listed under Research Help on the Alvernia Library Research page, links to sources for finding and evaluating Web sites.

Brodart DartClix

The Brodart DartClix consists of 16,000 professionally selected Web sites.

FINDING BOOKS, VIDEOS, DVDS, & CDS

WorldCat 100 million records

This Online Union Catalog lists holdings from libraries across the world. Searches can be conducted across all libraries or limited to the Alvernia Library collection. Searches can also be limited to specific types of documents such as books, visual materials and Internet resources. (dates of coverage: 2100 B.C. – present)

Requesting a book from this collection only takes a minute. Click on the Borrow this item from another library link. Submit the form with your Alvernia ID number and allow two weeks for delivery of the requested book.

Alvernia's Catalog

Alvernia's Catalog is the best tool for finding items in Alvernia Library's collection. You can search for books, audiobooks, books in the Best Seller collection, audio-visual materials (videos, DVD's and CD's), course reserves, and journals in our print collection. Item records indicate if the item is available. Students, faculty and staff with an Alvernia ID card can place a hold on items that are currently in circulation.

The Dewey Decimal System is used to classify books in the Alvernia Library. Books on social work are primarily located in the sections 360 to 363.

Examples of books with background information on social work are listed below:

The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research 001.42 S129 2005

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences R 300.3 I61 2008

The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods R 300.72 S129 2004

Encyclopedia of Sociology R301.03 E56 2000

Encyclopedia of Aging R301.26 E56 2002

International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences R303 I61

Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World R307.03 E56 2003

Encyclopedia of Social Work R361 E56 1995

Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America R361.97 E56 2005

Social Work Almanac R361 G493 1995

Social Work Dictionary R361.3 B255 1999

Dictionary of Counseling R361.3 B592 1994

Encyclopedia of Social Work R361.303 M685 2008

Social Worker's Desk Reference R361.32 S678 2002

The Encyclopedia of Elder Care R362.198 E56 2004

The Crisis in Youth Mental Health R618.928 C932 2006

ONLINE BOOKS

NetLibrary eBooks

A collection of over 12,000 eBooks is now accessible from NetLibrary. eBooks are full text electronic versions that can be borrowed and returned over the Internet. To access eBooks from off-campus, you must first Create A Free Account from a computer on the Alvernia College computer network.

International Encyclopedia of the Social Services

The Encyclopedia covers articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences.

Mental Measurements Yearbook

Produced by the Buros Institute at the University of Nebraska, the Mental Measurements Yearbook (MMY) provides users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments. The MMY series contains information essential for a complete evaluation of test products within such diverse areas as psychology, education, business, and leadership. All MMY entries contain descriptive information (e.g., test purpose, publisher, pricing) and edited review(s) written by leading content area experts. MMY provides coverage from Volume 9 to the present.

Updated: July 10, 2008

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