Search a specific database
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA full text database containing nearly 5,100 journals, this scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study. Provided by SUNYConnect.
- Library SearchThis will search most of what is available in the library.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowHome to nearly 13,000 indexed journals, a comprehensive, up-to-date and easy-to-use database for serious academic research. Provided by NOVEL NY.
- CINAHL Complete This link opens in a new windowThis is the definitive research database for nursing and allied health professionals. This is an upgrade from CINAHL Plus with Full Text. I
- MEDLINE with Full Text This link opens in a new windowMajor database for research in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine and much more. Includes content from the free online database PubMed.
- PsycINFO This link opens in a new windowOur biggest psychology database. Good for topics on behavior, motivation, addiction and attitudes.
- Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowLargest full text database covering topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods.
- PsycTESTS This link opens in a new windowA research database that provides access to psychological tests, measures, scales, surveys, and other assessments as well as descriptive information about each test and its development and administration.
- Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new windowIncludes 1570 full-text newspapers from around the world and more than 583,100 television and radio news transcripts, videos & podcasts.
- New York TimesOffers current issues of the New York Times.
- New York Times Historical Archive This link opens in a new windowOffers full page and article images of the New York Times with searchable full text from every available issue, 1851 - 2018.
*NOTE: nytimes.com access available at https://brockport.libanswers.com/faq/384973
- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowOur best Social Work database. Contains indexing and abstracting from social work, social welfare and other related journals from 1965 to the present. It covers topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization and much more.
Note: This database looks different than most of our databases, but is a very powerful tool. Please ask for help if you need it.
Brockport Downtown library services
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Agencies, departments...
- Dept. Health & Human ServicesThe U.S., federal level department responsible for social services.
- Monroe County Dept. Human ServicesThe local county level social services agency.
Online reference sources
- CQ ResearcherReports of issues of the day, including many related to social work, e.g. homelessness, gay marriage etc.
- Encyclopedia of Social WorkMajor social work encyclopedia, online. (In print too in the library, REF HV35 .S6)
- West's Encyclopedia of American LawMany entries on social work related topics - adoption, foster care etc.
Print Reference
- Encyclopedia of Activism and Social JusticeREF HM671 .E53
- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society:REF HQ772 .G27
Last Updated: May 16, 2023 10:45 AM
URL: https://library.brockport.edu/socialwork
URL: https://library.brockport.edu/socialwork