Research Guides: Social Work: Quick Links

Key Resources

Social Work Abstracts
Indexes current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, community development.
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts indexes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
Sociology Collection
Includes Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), and full text from the journals included in Sociology Database.
Web of Science Core Collection
Multidisciplinary database of journal articles and conference proceedings, used for citation analysis of research. Includes access to EndNote Basic, a web-based version of EndNote.
Scopus
SAGE Research Methods Online
A web-based research methods tool created to support researchers and students as they explore relevant content across the social and behavioral sciences, covering quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (OvidSP)
Database of evaluation and measurement tools used in health and psychosocial studies.

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MEDLINE (Ovid)
Premier biomedical database with over 30 million journal articles in the life sciences. Similar to Pubmed in content, this Ovid interface facilitates structured searching and allows editing of search histories.