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Susan Paterson
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Humanities and Social Sciences Division- Koerner Library
Humanities and Social Sciences Division- Koerner Library
604-827-5832
Research Help - Okanagan
Key Resources
- Social Work AbstractsIndexes current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, community development.
- Social Services AbstractsSocial Services Abstracts indexes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas.
- Sociology CollectionIncludes Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), and full text from the journals included in Sociology Database.
- Web of Science Core CollectionMultidisciplinary 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 Search citations and abstracts for journal articles, conference proceedings, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Can also be used for cited reference searches, citation analysis of research and searching by affiliation.
- SAGE Research Methods OnlineA 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.
- 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.
Helpful Links
- Use this worksheet to plan your search.
- Laubepin, Frederique. (2013) How to Read (and Understand) a Social Science Journal Article.
- Evaluating your Sources:
- Act Up Evaluation Method
Getting Started with the Literature Review
Constructing Research Questions by Call Number: OnlneISBN: 9781446255933Publication Date: 2013-03-06
Literature Reviews in Social Work by Call Number: HV11 .K58 2014ISBN: 9781446201275Publication Date: 2013-12-20
The Practice of Research in Social Work by Call Number: HV11 .E57 2017ISBN: 9781452225463Publication Date: 2012-02-14
The Literature Review by Call Number: LB1047.3 .M33 2012ISBN: 9781452240886Publication Date: 2012-06-08
Designing and Managing Your Research Project by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781848601925Publication Date: 2010-10-04
Doing a Literature Review by Call Number: H62. H2566 1998ISBN: 0761959742Publication Date: 1999-03-01
The Columbia Guide to Social Work Writing by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780231142946Publication Date: 2012-07-17
Social Work Documentation by Call Number: HV43 .S52 2015ISBN: 0871014866Publication Date: 2015Revised edition of the author's Social work documentation, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
