LibGuides: Social Work Liaison Toolkit: General

About

Sources for gathering background and context about social work research topics, as well as tools for locating social work articles. All reference sources and databases on this page are available for license or purchase, unless otherwise indicated as open access after the name of the resource.

Current page editor: Maureen Barry (mebarry@bgsu.edu)

Reference Sources

Library of Congress Call Numbers and Subject Headings

Associations and Organizations

Databases

AgeLine (EBSCO)
Indexes and abstracts over 210 journals as well as books, book chapters, and reports. Focus is on the population over age 50. Scope covers issues from individual, national, and global perspectives.
Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO)
Criminal Justice Abstracts is the leading bibliographic database for criminal justice and criminology research. It provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering all related subjects, including forensic sciences, corrections, policing, criminal law and investigation.
ERIC (open access)
ERIC is a comprehensive, easy-to-use, searchable, Internet-based bibliographic and full-text database of education research and information.
Family and Social Studies Worldwide
Comprised of four database files, Family & Society Studies Worldwide meets educational needs of professionals in all fields of social work, social science and family practice. It indexes publications from a wide range of social science disciplines, including anthropology, sociology, psychology, demography, health sciences, education, economics, law, history and social work.
Humanities International Complete
Provides full text of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world. Includes cover-to-cover indexing and abstracting for over 1,700 journals and contains more than 1.5 million records.
LGBTQ+ Source (EBSCO)
LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International
A ProQuest database with journal articles, white papers, and more on international public affairs issues including historical issues.
APA PsycInfo
To find sources about tests: enter relevant keywords in the search boxes and limit to the field “Tests and Measures”.
To find sources that contain the full text of tests: search for “appended”, limiting to the field “Tests and Measures” and add title or subject keywords, also limiting to the field “Tests and Measures”.
PubMed (open access) (National Library of Medicine)
Citations to biomedical literature from Medline, life science journals, and more. May include links to full text articles from some publishers and from PubMed Central, the National Institutes of Health free digital archive. Often called the free version of Medline, although this is not completely accurate.
Scopus
Offering nearly 18,000 titles in the fields of medicine, science, social science, and technology, Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. References go back to 1996 and 80% of all Scopus records back to 1823 have an abstract.
Social Services Abstracts (Subset of Sociological Abstracts)
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations as well as citations to book reviews
Social Work Abstracts (EBSCO)
Social Work Abstracts reviews over 500 U.S. and international journals and publishes approximately 500 abstracts each quarter. Classification scheme under four major subject categories - Social Work Profession, Theory and Practice, Areas of Service, and Social Issues/Social Problems
SocINDEX with Full Text
A full-text research database covering sociology, gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, religion, racial studies and social work. It includes hundreds of full-text journals, abstracts for core coverage journals dating as far back as 1895, as well as extensive indexing for books, monographs, conference papers and other non-periodical content sources. It also includes searchable cited references.
Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1963-present.