Databases
Databases are computerized subject guides to magazines, journals, newspapers, and other materials. For more choices than those listed below, go to the Jackson Library home page, then click on Databases
- Contains over 33,000 abstracts of periodical articles and dissertations on social work and related disciplines such as child and family welfare, sociology, crime and delinquency, and community health.
- International in scope. Some foreign language materials.
- Major journals in these fields available or accessible in Jackson library.
- 1977 to present
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- Indexes articles on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
- Covers over 1,400 journals, as well as dissertations.
- Indexes book reviews.
- Covers 1980 to the present
SocIndex with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)
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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, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others.
- Covers articles from over 4,000 journals and the full text of more than 700 books and thousands of conference papers
- Abstracts of some of the core journals date as far back as 1895.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
- Indexes approximately 650 journals in social work, psychology, sociology, political science, and health, including some peer-reviewed journals.
- Covers such topics as family, housing, ethnic studies, child abuse and substance abuse.
- Covers 1987 to the present.
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- Provides abstracts for over 1300 periodicals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology and social work
- Covers such topics as behavioral assessment, community mental health and casework with special populations.
- Large number of foreign language titles. Jackson library owns or has access to many of the core, English-language titles.
- 1872 to present
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- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- Abstracts and indexes over 7,900 journals (over 6,175 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Provides the full text of over 4,500 journals (over 3,600 of those are peer-reviewed).
- Covers the social sciences including sociology, social work, and family studies.
- Dates of coverage vary by title but full text mainly from 1990.
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- Citations, abstracts and some full-text for several thousand English-language general periodicals and scholarly journals dealing with all subject areas including sociology, social work, and family studies
- Most materials available in Jackson library
- 1980 to present; full text varies by title
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Child Development and Family Studies
- Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21.
- Included are book reviews and abstracts from hundreds of journals, and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations that cover the biomedical and social sciences worldwide.
- 1927 to present
Child Abuse, Child Welfare, and Adoption Database
- Covers the maltreatment, safety, permanency, and well-being of children.
- Provides citations and abstracts to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grant, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed or continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.
- Focuses on the United States
- 1965 to date
- Abstracts for over 2,000 journals, plus books, conference papers, and other materials in sociology, social psychology, social work, community development, criminal justice
- International in scope. Many foreign language titles.
- Major journals in these fields available in Jackson library.
- Includes book reviews.
- 1963 to present
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- Full text of about 50 journals from the Amer. Psychological Assn, Canadian Psychological Assn, and Hogrefe & Huber Publishers
- Covers all aspects of psychology. Includes related areas such as community and social services, home care, hospice, and drug and alcohol rehabilitation
- Mainly 1988 to present but varies by title
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Humanities and Social Science Retrospective
- Indexes the core scholarly, English-language journals published between 1907 and 1984
- Includes citations to more than 1 million articles, including book reviews.
- Over 180,000 bibliographic records and abstracts drawn from over 1,000 professional journals as well as books, popular literature, conference papers, and government reports.
- Includes research, policy and practice literature in the fields of family science, human ecology and human development.
- Considerable Australian material. Limited amount of these materials available in Jackson library.
- 1970 to present
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- Indexes more than 8,100 peer-reviewed science and social science journals cover-to-cover, providing complete bibliographic data, full-length author abstracts, and cited references.
- The citation databases contain the references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms. A cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other, later works that cite it.
- In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, and address.
- Indexes articles, bibliographies, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
- Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index.
- 1985 to date
- News, culture and history from several hundred U.S. publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
- Full text titles offer additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.
- Dates vary by title with most beginning full text coverage in the 1990s. A few date as far back as the 1960s.
Social Work Resources
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