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Social Work

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Recommended Databases

  • Indexes and abstracts journal articles and book chapters in the field of psychology, 1887 to present. Has links to the full text of PsychArticles.

  • A collection of databases in the social sciences, including PAIS, Sociological Abstracts, Intl. Bibliography of the Social Sciences and more, and full text coverage of journal articles. The contents can be searched individually or as a group.

  • Database covering the literature of social work and welfare, human services, social policy and community development.

  • Comprehensive sociological research database. Indexes, abstracts and some full text of journal articles, books and conference papers, 1895 - present.

  • This resource is provided by the American Psychological Association. More formatting guidelines for APA Style can be found at Excelsior College's Online Writing Lab.

  • Online version of the DSM-5-TR (Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) and the Manual of Differential Diagnosis

  • Continuously updated version of the Encyclopedia of Social Work.

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  • Full text of APA ebooks published 2008 – 2019.

  • Federal statistics about crime. Has links to FBI Uniform Crime Reports and Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.

  • Actual transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions comprising over 2,000 sessions.

  • Transcripts of counseling and therapy sessions from 2012 and later.

  • Streaming videos to support social work, psychotherapy, psychiatry and counseling.

  • Whether studying to become a lawyer or law enforcement officer, paralegal, or for a career in Homeland Security, this collection rises to the challenge. Users will have access to 150 journals

  • A full-text research database covering “the culture, traditions, social treatment and lived experiences of different ethnic groups in America”— among them are Black Americans, Arab Americans, Jewish Americans, Latinx Americans, Indigenous Americans, and Asian Americans (including Chinese, Filipino, and South Asian Americans). Focus is on the United States, and most content is in English. The database includes full-text articles from thousands of ebooks,  465  journals, magazines, and newspapers as well as  primary sources.

  • This collection of journals aims to provide balanced coverage of this significant aspect of our culture, covering such topics as gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and many more.

  • Bibliographic database of information on behavioral measurement instruments.

  • The most recent descriptive information and critical review of new and revised tests from the Buros Institutes 9th - 14th Yearbooks.

  • Index to journals, books, proceedings and other sources on the public and social policy literature of business, economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration, government, political science and other social sciences. Archive covers 1915-1976; International covers 1977-present.

  • Psychoanalytic library of journals, books and videos.

  • Streaming video and audio of original experiments plus 40,000 pages of primary source documents.

  • Citations and abstracts to the published literature concerning PTSD, sponsored by the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

  • The search engine for the National Library of Medicine’s database of citations to millions of articles in thousands of biomedical journals.

  • Journal articles covering applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences; full text from 1994 forward; indexing with abstracts from 1984 forward.

  • The National Association of Social Workers’s bibliography of social work and related literature, from 1977 to present.

  • The most recent descriptive information and critical review of new and revised tests from the Buros Institutes 9th - 14th Yearbooks.