Social Work

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Academic Video Online: Premium – Academic Video Online: Premium contains over 66,000 streaming videos with coverage in all academic subject areas.

APA PsycInfo– Indexes and abstracts scholarly journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related social science disciplines. Provides links to some full-text articles. (see also PsycInfo)

Books at JSTOR – Books at JSTOR contains over 32,000 ebooks published prior to 2016 from a number of academic publishers with subject strengths in the humanities and social sciences.

Books on Project MUSE – Books on Project MUSE provides access to ebooks published by university presses in the humanities and social sciences.

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Library – The library includes access to Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volumes I-IV, and contains over 2,400 hours of therapy sessions and training videos.

Emerald Health & Social Care eJournal Collection – Indexes, abstracts and provides some full text of articles from international journals in subjects including intellectual/learning disabilities, mental health, criminology and forensic practice, working with vulnerable groups and management of services.

Encyclopedia of Women and Crime – Provides a global perspective as well as both contemporary and historical scholarship on the subject. This multi-volume encyclopedia enables readers to assess current literature on crime, justice and gender, and understand and analyze women as both offenders of and victims of crime.

Mango Languages – An online language-learning program for over 70 languages including English. Lessons range from basic to comprehensive language and grammar skills, and can include casual conversations, films, and specialty courses in culture. Users can create a profile to track their language learning progress.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts – Provides summaries of criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection – Provides access to full-text publications, including peer-reviewed titles on topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Psychotherapy.net – Provides 339 psychotherapy, counseling, and social work videos, featuring therapists, social workers, and other mental health professionals conducting therapy and demonstrating clinical skills.

PsycInfo– Indexes and abstracts scholarly journal articles, chapters, books, technical reports, and dissertations in psychology and related social science disciplines. Provides links to some full-text articles. (see also APA PsycInfo)

SAGE Knowledge Books & Reference – Provides access to ebooks in the social sciences, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, and professional development titles.

SAGE Research Methods Cases: Medicine & Health – Over 500 case studies showing how methods are applied in real research projects.

SAGE Video Collections – Brings teaching, learning, and research to life through editorially curated collections across the social, behavioral, and health sciences.

Social Science Database – Provides indexing, abstracts and full text for more journals in social science disciplines.

Social Science Premium Collection – Provides access to Criminology Collection, including National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database; Education Collection, including ERIC and Education Database; the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, IBSS; Library & Information Science Collection (LISA); Linguistics Collection, including Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts; Politics Collection, including PAIS and WPSA; Social Science Database; and Sociology Collection, including Sociological Abstracts.

Social Sciences Citation Index® – Indexes and provides abstracts for the world’s leading social science journals beginning in 1986 with links to locally available content.

Social Services Abstracts – Indexes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Social Work Abstracts – Indexes and abstracts articles published in scholarly social work and other related social science journals.

SocINDEX – Indexes and abstracts an extensive collection of sociology journals with full-text of articles from journals, books and conference papers. Content includes all sub-disciplines of sociology and closely related areas of study.

Sociological Abstracts – Indexes and abstracts scholarly journals covering all aspects of sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, law, social psychology, and urban studies.

Sociology Collection – Access to Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index Abstracts, and the Sociology Database with full-text coverage.

Statistical Abstract of the United States, Online Edition – The Statistical Abstract of the United States, Online Edition is a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the U.S. with over 1400 browseable and searchable tables.

Web of Science™ – Consists of three databases, Science Citation Index Expanded®, Social Sciences Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index®; indexes and provides abstracts for more recent articles.

Other Resources

Abstracts in Social Gerontology – Indexes, abstracts and links to full-text articles on geriatric studies, psychology of aging, elder abuse, and society and the elderly.

Academic Search Complete – Indexes, abstracts and provides selected full-text of articles published in scholarly publications from many disciplines.

American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection – Indexes and provides images of historic American magazine and journal pages and articles, published 1683 – 1912. Includes images of pages and articles from three historic women’s studies databases: Women’s Periodicals of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century, 1733-1844; Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1845-1865; Women’s Periodicals of the Nineteenth Century, 1866-1891. 

Business Source Complete – Indexes, abstracts and provides full-text of articles from magazines and scholarly journals, industrial/technological periodicals, company and industry profiles, country economic data, accounting standards, encyclopedic dictionaries and handbooks.

eDuke Books Scholarly Collection – Provides access to electronic books in the humanities and social sciences published in 2012 and 2013 by Duke University Press.

ERIC (EBSCO) – Indexes and abstracts articles from education journals as well as the ERIC document collection. Provides comprehensive coverage of published and unpublished educational materials.

Family Studies Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts and links to some full-text on family studies.

GovInfo – A service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) that provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

JSTOR – Provides full-text of scholarly journals in the fields of ecology, economics, education, finance, history, mathematics, political science and population studies. Southeastern users have access to JSTOR Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, V and Complement Collections and JSTOR Biology Collection.

MEDLINE® – Indexes scholarly journals and covers all areas of medicine and health sciences (including nursing, allied health and nutrition). Provides links to some full-text articles.

Nexis Uni™ – Provides access to titles in news, business and legal information. Includes company financial information, industry and market news, foreign and U.S. newspapers, magazines and trade journals, federal and state case law, accounting information, medical news and abstracts, law reviews, state and country profiles.

Project MUSE (Journals) – Provides full-text articles from scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Race Relations Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts and links to full-text articles related to ethnic studies, discrimination and immigration studies.

Research Library (ProQuest) – Indexes and abstracts popular and scholarly periodicals including full-text, full images, or text and graphics of articles from thousands of titles.

Violence & Abuse Abstracts – Indexes, abstracts and links to some full-text articles related to family violence, emotional and sexual abuse.

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