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Social Work : Resources for Subjects Related to Social Work
This guide presents resources useful for students in social work classes.
Databases Relevant to Education
- Education Research CompleteEducation database (EBSCO) that covers research in the field of education from early childhood through higher education. Covers Journal articles, conference papers, and selected books.
- ERIC - Educational Resources Information CenterReferences to published and unpublished texts on education topics sourced from journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and more.
Database Relevant to Ethnic Studies
- Ethnic Diversity SourceFull text sources covering the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America.
- Ethnic NewsWatchNewspapers, magazines and journals of ethnic, minority and native press, from Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, multi-ethnic communities.
Databases Relevant to Family Studies
- Family & Society Studies WorldwideCovers a wide range of current issues with an emphasis on how they impact families. Includes a variety of sources beyond articles such as government reports and book chapters.
Databases Relevant to Gender / Sexuality / Women's Studies
- Alternative Press Index and Alternative Press Index Archive (combined)Provides access to non-mainstream content from a variety of cultural and social viewpoints across the sociopolitical spectrum.
- Dorothy: Global Films About Gender and WomenDatabase of production information for films and television programs from around the world focused on the lives of women, girls, and transgender people.
- GenderWatchCovers gender, women, and gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) issues from an array of academic, radical, community, and independent presses.
- Independent VoicesOpen access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, produced during the latter half of the 20th century.
- LGBTQ+ Rights (HeinOnline)Legal materials and supporting documents charting the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States and legal aspects of gender identity and sexual orientation.
- LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)Covers fulltext of current or historically significant Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Queer (LGBTQ) journals, magazines and regional newspapers and a selection of full text ebooks.
- LGBT Thought and CultureLGBT Thought and Culture is an online resource hosting the key works and archival documentation of LGBT political and social movements throughout the 20th century and into the present day.
- Sex & SexualityCollection of primary sources documenting the wide-ranging breadth and experience of human sexuality.
- Studies on Women & Gender Abstractsprovides summaries of articles in a variety of worldwide English-language journals.
- Sylvia: Scholarly Books on Gender and FeminismDatabase of bibliographic details for academic books written for researchers, scholarly editions, selected memoirs, and notable works for a general audience on gender and feminism.
- Women's Studies InternationalWomen's Studies International indexes women's studies, women's issues, and gender-focused books, book chapters, journal and magazine articles, dissertations, and reports from throughout the world, starting in 1972.
- Women and Social Movements, International: 1840 to PresentPrimary source collection of writings of women activists and conference proceedings at which pivotal decisions in women's social movements were made.
- Women and Transnational NetworksPrimary sources document issues of gender and class from the 18th century to early 20th century.
Databases Relevant to Psychology and Medicine
- APA PsycInfoLarge database covering the field of psychology, behavioral science and mental health, including the psychological aspects of medicine, nursing, education, physiology, business, law, and more.
- Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)Database of evaluation and measurement tools designed to facilitate health and psychosocial studies. Includes questionnaires, checklists, index measures, rating scales, project techniques, tests, interview schedules, and more.
- Mental Measurements Yearbook With Tests In PrintGuide and reviews of commercially published English-language tests for educational, personality, vocational aptitude, psychological, and related areas.
- Oxford Bibliographies. PsychologyFrequently updated, authoritative research guides on topics in psychology, combining aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
- Psychiatry OnlineThe most sophisticated tool available for psychiatric information, built around resources that psychiatrists, mental health professionals, researchers, and students use every day. The collection includes 15 reference books and four journals and includes the full text of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5).
- PubMedCovers the biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Also provides access to NCBI databases covering molecular biology. From the NIH's National Library of Medicine.
Databases Relevant to Sociology
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)Journal articles and books in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology, from around the world and in many languages.
- Oxford Bibliographies. SociologyReference tool of authoritative research guides on sociology that combines aspects of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia. Includes expert commentary.
- SAGE Research MethodsBooks, reference works, journal articles, cases, sample datasets, and videos necessary to design and execute a research project for all levels of researchers, from undergrads to the most senior faculty.
- Sociological AbstractsInternational journal articles in sociology and related disciplines in social and behavioral sciences; includes relevant dissertations since 1986.