Abstracts and index of articles covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
The most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day and offering full text for graduate works added since 1997, along with selected full text for works written prior to 1997. It contains a significant amount of new international dissertations and theses both in citations and in full text.
If you wish to access full text theses, please make sure the "Full text" option is ticked under the search bar.
Research databases are ideal when you need to conduct a more focused search than the library website provides. Databases contain abstracts, journal articles and conference papers on specific subjects. They are ideal for searching specialist resources in your subject area. You can use the library website for searching across multiple databases but for more specific searching please see the list below of databases that are useful for Social Work. We subscribe to three specific social work databases but the list of other databases will also be useful to use for your assignments.
Resource containing expert-written, practice-related information adult care social workers.
Resource containing expert-written, practice-related information for child and family social workers.
The databases below may have articles with some relation to social work and cover the humanities and social sciences.
Access to the Emerald database of full-text articles covering a range of subjects from management, marketing, economics, engineering, health and social care and tourism.
Access the abstracts of journal articles from a range of different publishers. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Access to Oxford University Press journals. If the University of Lincoln subscribes to a listed journal, then many of that journal's articles will also be available in full text.
Provides access to all SAGE journals covering a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine periodicals.
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature from scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, more recently, also in the arts and humanities.
SocINDEX with Full Text is a sociology research database. It contains full text for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
Access to journal articles and e-books for the academic, professional and business communities.
Please be aware that we do not have access to all volumes of every title in this collection. Full text coverage varies by title due to publisher restrictions.
Abstract and index database of articles from academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
You can now export references directly to RefWorks from Web of Science. Any issues, please see this FAQ from Clarivate: Web of Science: Disable pop-up blockers for Save to RefWorks
Access journals, reference works and current protocols covering a range of scientific, medical, technical and professional disciplines.
Shared off-air recording and media archive service. Programmes can only be viewed in the UK.
You will need to register with the site before you can access the content.
Useful for legal information and cases. In addition please use Nexis and Lexis in the newspaper section.
Statista consolidates statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources for insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries.
The UK's largest collection of economic, population and social research data, including UK Census data.
Access note: Click on "Log in" and search for University of Lincoln from the list.You will need to register with the site before you can access the data.
Use the news tabs in Lexis and Nexis for news stories.
Please note these two databases listed below are from the American Psychological Association.