The best way to search for journal articles is to type relevant keywords into either:
Research databases are ideal for:
Resource containing expert-written, practice-related information adult care social workers.
Resource containing expert-written, practice-related information for child and family social workers.
Research in Practice offers access to learning opportunities, resources, and support for professionals in the social care, health, criminal justice and higher education sectors.
To Access, select the University Login option, search for University of Lincoln and then login using your University login details.
The databases below may have articles with some relation to social work and cover the humanities and social sciences.
Watch the video to find out more about how to use the content on Oxford Academic, including how to sign in, navigating around the site, managing institutional account settings, and using different features and functionality.
Scopus uniquely combines a comprehensive, expertly curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly literature across a wide variety of disciplines. Scopus quickly finds relevant and authoritative research, identifies experts and provides access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools. Be confident in progressing research, teaching or research direction and priorities.
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Abstract and index database of articles from academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
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.
Use the news tabs in Lexis and Nexis for news stories.
Lexis+ UK Newspapers provides full text access to UK national and regional newspapers. Date coverage varies by individual title from 1980s to today.
For international newspaper content visit Nexis.
Useful for legal information and cases. In addition please use Nexis and Lexis in the newspaper section.
Please note these two databases listed below are from the American Psychological Association.
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.
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.
Abstracts and index of articles covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.