Social Work

Online Encyclopedias

• Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Social Work
  Continuously updated resource containing hundreds of articles and biographies that offer overviews of key elements in social work study. Monthly additions.

Key Databases

• Social Services Abstracts
  Database providing bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development from thousands of serial publications with links to full text.

Streaming Video

• Films on Demand: Social Work Video Collection
  Over 350 videos covering all aspects of social work.

Other Resources

• The Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics
  Examines the ethical and values issues that impact and are interwoven with social work practice, research, and theory development. This journal addresses ethical and value issues that encompass the full range of social problems and issues that social workers encounter.
• ProQuest Social Sciences
  Includes Research Library for social sciences as well as the premium collection.
• Google Scholar
  Google's search engine for scholarly literature on the web. Some full text is available, but much is not (behind publisher paywalls).
• GPO (Government Printing Office)
  Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and documents issued by executive departments, many pertaining to sociological issues.
• Science Direct
  Our largest database for the sciences and social sciences, including sociology, providing full text access to scholarly journals often unavailable on other databases.
• Sociological Collection
  This database covers a broad range of subjects including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more.