LibGuides: Social Work: Finding articles

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Recommended databases

Databases on the EbscoHost platform:

SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text is a comprehensive sociology research database. The database features records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text journals dating back to 1908.
Social Work Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a multi-disciplinary database with extensive coverage of STEM research, social sciences and humanities, anthropology, engineering, law and the sciences.
Medline Complete
MEDLINE Complete is the largest full-text companion to the MEDLINE index, containing full text for journals.
CINAHL Complete
CINAHL Complete is a comprehensive source of full-text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 1,300 journals.
APA PsycInfo
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), a key database for psychology topics. PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s.
AgeLine
AgeLine focuses exclusively on the population aged 50+ and issues of aging, including social gerontology and aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, economics, and public policy.

Databases on other platforms:

Embase
Embase (The Excerpta Medica database) produced by Elsevier, is a biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, clinical and experimental human medicine, health policy and management, public health, occupational health, environmental health, drug dependence and abuse, psychiatry, forensic medicine, and biomedical engineering/instrumentation.
Sociology Database (ProQuest)
Sociology Database covers the fields of sociology and social work including social policy, social care, social services, anthropology, gender studies gerontology, psychology and population studies.
Health Collection (Informit)
INFORMIT database, Health Collection, is useful in particular for Australian focused health content. Including research articles, reports and case studies of practical support. Subject areas included ageing and age care, child health and breastfeeding, indigenous health issues, mental health and rehabilitation.

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Recommended journals

Australian Journal of Social Issues
This journal explores a range of significant social and policy issues and related debates. This refereed journal is published quarterly by the Australian Council of Social Service and the Australian Social Policy Association.
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Australian Social Work
This journal includes original research and theoretical commentary on a range of social work themes. This peer reviewed journal by the Australian Association of Social Workers is published quarterly.
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British Journal of Social Work
It covers all aspects of social work practice, features articles on original research, and examines social work principles and theories. Journal of the British Association of Social Workers, this is a leading academic social work journal in the UK.
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Child and Family Social Work
Use this resource to locate articles on research, theory, policy and practice in the field of social work with children and their families. International peer-reviewed journal focusing on children and families.
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Social work education: a journal for education and training in local authority, probation and allied personal social services
Features articles of a critical and reflective nature, and is concerned with the theory and practice of social work practice and education. English journal focusing on professional education for social workers.
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Sociological Research Online
Find sociological analysis and research on a wide range of public issues and private concerns, which is highly relevant to understanding contemporary social issues. English online journal, publishing fully peer-reviewed content.
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News sources

Newsbank Access Australia
Provides access to over 100 international and Australian newspapers. Less comprehensive than Factiva, but easier to search.
Factiva
Provides access to more than 8,000 Australian and international newspapers, news sources and newspaper pictures/photos. Internet Explorer is the recommended browser for this database.
Newspaper Source Plus
Use this resource to access content from U.S. and international newspapers, as well as television & radio news transcripts. Selected full text for more than 260 U.S. newspapers is available, as is cover to cover full text for 28 U.S. and international newspapers.
TVNews
Australian television news, current affairs and selected documentaries from the free-to-air networks.

Social Work