Selected Resources for: Social Work
 | Subject Librarian: Scott Marsalis E-Mail: marsa001@umn.edu Subject Description:This subject covers: the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, or communities enhance or restore their capacity for social functioning and creating societal conditions favorable to this goal. (NASW) |
Abstracts and Indexes
* Premier Resources *Google Scholar - U of M students, staff and faculty  Use Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site, or by setting your Scholar Preferences to the "University of Minnesota (FindIt@U of M Twin Cities) to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journal subscriptions the library has already acquired for you. Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. When using any one of the three access methods below, the text link, "FindIt@U of M Twin Cities", will appear in your Google Scholar search results. Then clicking the "Find It" link will present you with a menu of full-text and related service options for the Scholar search result you followed. To benefit from this service, access Google Scholar via:
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PsycINFO  Covers all areas of psychology. Provides bibliographic citations and abstracts to articles from more than 1300 international journals in psychology and related fields. In addition, PsycINFO covers books, book chapters, and dissertations. PsycINFO supports searching cited references. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Services Abstracts CSA 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 abstracts and indexes over 1,600 serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Work Abstracts Abstracts of articles from social work and related journals. Includes register of clinical social workers. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 8 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| Campbell Collaboration C2-SPECTR Register of randomized, and possibly randomized, trials in education, social work and welfare, and criminal justice. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CINAHL CINAHL, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health, has a multidisciplinary scope covering nursing, 17 allied health disciplines, biomedicine, consumer health, health sciences librarianship and selected standards of professional practice. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Cochrane Library The Cochrane Library consists of a collection of regularly updated evidence-based health care databases. The Cochrane collection is designed to provide information and evidence to support health care decision-making. The available databases are: The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (regularly updated reviews of the effects of health care interventions); Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effectiveness: DARE (critical assessments and structured abstracts of good systematic reviews published elsewhere); The Cochrane Controlled Trials Register: CENTRAL (bibliographic information on controlled trials); The Cochrance Database of Methodology Reviews: CDMR (systematic reviews of methodological studies); Health Technology Assessment Database: HTA (information about health technology assessments); NHS Economic Evaluation Database: NHS EED (National Health Service (UK), structured abstracts of articles describing evaluations of health care interventions); browse by Cochrane Collaborative Review Group; and the Cochrane Reviewer's Handbook. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| CQ Electronic Library Provides access to reports and articles from the CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, CQ Public Affairs Collection and the CQ Voting and Elections Collection. The CQ Weekly provides nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill. The CQ Researcher and Public Affairs collections investigate a wide range of current topics, providing the pro's and con's of the issues. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Family & Society Studies Worldwide Search here to find citations and abstracts to articles and book chapters on family dynamics, marriage and family therapy, the family in society, and child development. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| LegalTrac Indexes 800+ legal publications, law reviews, bar association journals and legal newspapers. Web version includes some abstracts and full-text articles. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| MEDLINE (OVID) MEDLINE includes citations from the fields of medicine, public health, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the basic biomedical sciences. The Libraries' subscription to this resource allows for 40 users at any one time. If you get a busy signal, please wait a few minutes and try accessing the site again. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine's bibliographic database/article index that contains over 17 million references to journal articles. Coverage is from 1949 to the present. Over 5200 journals worldwide in over 37 languages are indexed. Covered are basic biomedical research and the clinical sciences, including nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, pharmacy, allied health and pre-clinical sciences as well as life sciences that are important to practitioners and researchers - biology, environmental science, biophysics, chemistry and plant & animal science. Ovid, a software company specializing in text retrieval applications and search interfaces, provides an easy to use interface for searching MEDLINE.[more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PAIS International Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PolicyFile PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Some well known contributors include: the American Enterprise Institute, Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Cato Institute, Center for Defense Information, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, Democratic Leadership Council, Economic Strategy Institute, Federation of American Scientists, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Hudson Institute, Institute for International Economics, International Monetary Fund, National Center for Policy Analysis, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, United States Institute of Peace, and the World Bank. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| PubMed - U of M Students, Staff & Faculty Primary source of journal article access for the health sciences - the campus version provides full text access to all Medline e-journals subscribed to by the University of Minnesota TC Libraries. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (included in Web of Science) Covers the social sciences, including anthropology, history, industrial relations, information science and library science, law, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, political science, public health, social issues, social work, sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Provides bibliographic citations, plus author abstracts "for approximately 60% of the articles in the database." Each citation also includes a list of references cited in the source article. In addition, it is possible to retrieve a list of works that have cited a specific author or a specific earlier work. Indexes articles, reviews, letters, etc. from over "1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals." [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications
| Congressional Research Digital Collection - Prospective Service The LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC) provides full-text access to more than 5,000 Congressional committee prints published from 2004 to present and more than 23,000 Congressional Research Service reports published from 2004-present. The bibliographic records provide controlled-vocabulary indexing, including citations for bills, public laws, and Statutes at Large, and analytical abstracts of the documents. Also includes links to political parties and organizations, news sources, etc. See Overview/Help for useful information on the legislative process. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Indexes to Magazine, Journal & Newspaper Articles
| Academic Search Premier This resource is licensed by the MINITEX Library Information Network with state appropriations from the Minnesota Higher Education Services Office (MHESO) and the Minnesota Department of Education. The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
General Reference Sources
Directories| National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Clinical Register The Register of Clinical Social Workers provides directory information such as name, address, telephone, certification, specialization, education, licenses and employment history for clinical social workers, primarily in the U.S. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Encyclopedias
| Encyclopedia of Social Work Contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. This new edition includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Handbooks and Manuals
| Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders DSM-IV-TR [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Internet Resources
Electronic Texts| Green Book - House Ways & Means Committee The Green Book provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty, and taxation. The first edition was released in 1981 and online editions begin with 1996. Online editions can be searched or browsed and file formats are either text or *.pdf. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources| LexisNexis Statistical Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities. Comprised of three indexes--the American Statistics Index (ASI)--Index to International Statistics (IIS)-- and Statistical Resources Index (SRI) that give bibliographic citations, abstracts, and links to selected full-text tables and web sites when available. The Government Publications Library has the companion microfiche collections which include copies of almost all the publications indexed in this database. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Statistical Abstract of the United States As the National Data Book it contains a collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States. Selected international data are also included. The Abstract is also your Guide to sources of other data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations (see example table). The online version has full text from 1995-, although the series as a whole starts in 1878. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
Style Manuals and Writing Guides
Bibliography Software| RefWorks: Personal Citation Manager RefWorks is a web-based citation manager that allows you to create your own databases of citations by importing references from MNCAT and other databases, and then in seconds automatically generate bibliographies in all major styles (MLA, APA, Turabian, Chicago, etc.). [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites| Government Publications Library Web Site The Government Publications Library is a depository for publications from the governments of the United States, Minnesota and Canada. It's also a depository library for the international intergovernmental organizations the United Nations and the European Union. Therefore, the majority, although certainly not all, of the resources included on our site relate to those governments and organizations. The types of resources we link to include online government publications, directories, specialized licensed databases and guides to using government publications. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
| University of Minnesota, School of Social Work Web Site Includes an extensive list of links to other sites on the Web of interest to social workers. [more information] [ Add To myLibrary!] |
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