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Social Work 200 - Social Work & Social Welfare Services: Electronic Resources

Social work research

Google Scholar and WorldCat

Social Work Abstracts

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 500 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database 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.

Google Scholar

This unique search engine provides access to enormous quantities of scholarly research citations, that may have links to full text. The links include publications in JStor, and numerous other repositories.  You can link to this website; https://scholar.google.com

The great benefit to using Goggle Scholar is how comprehensive the results are. It is often the case that if the searcher has incomplete or wrong citation details, finding some otherwise difficult material is often successful.

In addition, the reader has access to a variety of formatted citations for most material imbedded in the app. 

WorldCat

This utility is a world-wide catalog of the books, and other resources, from all types of libraries, all over the over the world. They list almost 400,000,000 item records. You can search this website through the following link; http://www.worldcat.org/

Besides being about to verify citation information, you can utilize the functionality to place Inter-library loan requests for books that are held by WCSU Libraries, or the 17 WestSearch consortium member libraries.