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Social Work

Your first stop for research: a guide to resources for Social Work

How do I find journal articles?

The best way to search for journal articles is to type relevant keywords into either:

  • the advanced search on the library website, or
  • the individual databases that the University Library subscribes to
  • Alternatively, if you are searching for a very specific topic you may want to search in an electronic journal directly

What are databases?

Research databases are ideal for:

  • When you need to conduct a more focused search than the library website provides and for searching specialist resources in your subject area.
  • Databases contain abstracts, journal articles and conference papers on specific subjects.
  •  We subscribe to three specific Social Work databases but the list of other databases will also be useful to use for your assignments.
  • There is clear guidance given for each database on the topics it covers.

Social Work databases

Other useful databases

The databases below may have articles with some relation to social work and cover the humanities and social sciences.

Video recordings

How to search in the database Social Policy and Practice

How to use Community Care Inform

Using Community Care Inform whilst on placement

How to use the Scopus database

TV/ Radio databases

Newspaper databases

Use the news tabs in Lexis and Nexis for news stories.

Law databases

Useful for legal information and cases. In addition please use Nexis and Lexis in the newspaper section.

Psychology databases

Please note these two databases listed below are from the American Psychological Association.

Statistical databases

Further Research

Abstract and Index databases