Welcome! You are looking at the best library resources for Social Work. If you need to research a different discipline, please take a look at some of our other Research Guides to get an idea of what is available.
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- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowA full text database containing nearly 5,100 journals. Great for social work topics. You can combine this with Social Work Abstracts to search two different databases at once!
- Library SearchThis will search most of what is available in the library.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
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Home 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 Ultimate This link opens in a new windowThis is the definitive research database for nursing and allied health professionals. This is an upgrade from CINAHL Complete.
- 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.
- 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.
Background Information
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowReports of issues of the day, including many related to social work, e.g. homelessness, LGBTQ+ rights, immigration. Note that these sources are NOT peer reviewed, but can help you learn about a topic.
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.
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Last Updated: Oct 17, 2023 1:58 PM
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URL: https://library.brockport.edu/socialwork