Research Guides: Social Work: Finding Articles

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Subject Databases

Social Work Abstracts
The Social Work Abstracts database contains more than 45,000 records from social work and other related journals on topics such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance abuse, legislation, community organization, and more.

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APA PsycINFO
PsycINFO® database provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the psychological, social, behavioral, and health sciences.
Diversity Studies
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More than 150 social studies, history, and liberal arts journals that explore cultural differences, contributions and influences in our global community.
Gender Studies
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This collection of journals covers such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.
Pop Culture Studies
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This collection provides useful information for any researcher in a social science, history, art or liberal arts course. This collection is made up of more than 100 subject-appropriate full-text periodicals.
Psychology
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This collection gives individuals a basic understanding of the study of the mind, emotions and how the human mind develops and diminishes over time.
CINAHL with Full Text
This resource provides full text for hundreds of nursing and allied health journals indexed in the CINAHL database dating back to 1981.

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Child Welfare Information Gateway is your connection to trusted resources on the child welfare continuum. We provide publications, research, and learning tools selected by experts to support thriving children, youth, families, and communities.
Social Work Films from Films on Demand
Films, videos, clips, and documentaries about social work.

General Databases

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, indexes and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and more than 13,200 publications. It covers a range of disciplines such as science, engineering, psychology, religion, and many others.
Academic Onefile
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Academic OneFile includes peer-reviewed and full text articles from journals and reference sources in the subjects of physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature, as well as the New York Times.
SAGE Journals
Online access to 550+ journals in the social sciences, business, humanities, science, technology, and medicine disciplines.
WilsonWeb OmniFile
Wilson Web OmniFile is a full text database that contains articles from approximately 2,700 publications beginning in 1994 that cover Art, Agriculture, Applied Science, Business, Education, Science, Humanities, Law, Library Science, Social Sciences, Technology, and more.
Newspaper Source Plus
Newspaper Source Plus includes more than 700 full-text newspapers, nearly 31 million full-text articles, and more than 677,000 television and radio news transcripts.

Online Journals

The Union University Library subscribes to some individual online journals which are not fully in the databases but will be of interest to students and researchers. The full-text of these journals can be found on the library's homepage, by clicking on the link, Journals by Title or Subject, and entering the desired title. To browse journals in the field of Social Work, choose Social Work under Browse by Discipline. Some journals, Union has in full text are listed below:

Clinical Social Work Journal
Journal of Child & Family Studies
Journal of Gerontological Social Work
Journal of Public Child Welfare
Journal of Social Service Research
Smith College Studies in Social Work
Social Service Review
Social Work
Social Work with Groups

Print Journals

The following journals are available in print in the Periodicals Reading Room on the first floor of the library:

Christian Scholar's Review
Psychology and Education
Psychology Today
Sojourners
Word and World
World