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
Social
Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
- Abstracts of journal 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 from University Libraries
- 1977 +
- More info
- Indexes articles on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
- Covers over a thousand journals as well as dissertations.
- 1980 +
SocIndex with Full Text (SIFT) (EBSCO)
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Comprehensive coverage of sociology and related areas of study including social work, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, social development, social psychology, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse & other addictions, violence, etc.
- 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 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
- 1987 +
- More info
PsycINFO (EBSCO)
- Abstracts and some full text for journals, book chapters and books in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology and social work
- Selected topics: behavioral assessment, community mental health, casework with special populations. etc.
- 1872 +
- More info
PsycArticles (EBSCO)
- Full text of about 50 core journals including all from the American Psychological Assn
- 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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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full text database.
- 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
- More info
Child Development and Family Studies (EBSCO)
- Covers materials relating to the growth and development of children through the age of 21.
- 1927 +
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 +
- Use this link to simultaneously search any of the 20+ EBSCO databases
- NB: In most cases the thesaurus and some of the other limiters will
not be available
- Abstracts for 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.
- 1963 +
- More info
Humanities and Social Science Retrospective (Wilson)
- 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 peer-reviewed science and social science journals, book reviews, editorials, letters, meeting abstracts, notes, review papers, reviews of software, and more
- Shows references cited by the authors of the journal articles they cover. You can use these cited references as search terms
- Cited reference search: find articles from journals that have cited a book or another article
- Searchable by topic, author, and source title
- Includes Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index.
- 1955 +
- 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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Nancy Ryckman
Social Work Librarian
