Journal articles are regular scholarly publications which contain articles on specific subjects.
They are important because:
Research databases are ideal for:
These databases are aimed at social workers but contain key resources for safeguarding practice
Care Knowledge provides practical and evidenced based information to support professional practice for social work, social care and children’s practitioners. It covers social care news, guidance and research on adults, children, learning disabilities and mental health. It gives access to the following journals: Journal of Adult Protection, Journal of children's services, The journal of family health care, Journal of integrated care, Learning disability today, Mental health today, Working with older people : community care policy and practice and Research Summaries from the Social Care Elf, Learning Disability Elf and the Mental Elf.
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 cover the humanities and social sciences.
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.
Abstract and index database of articles from academic journals covering the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Below are a selection of recordings to help you use various databases.
Recording showing you how to use the Social Policy and Practice database - this is an abstract database but often does provide links to the full text of articles.
Full text access to business information and major international newspapers including foreign language sources. Date coverage varies by individual title from 1980s to today.
Use the news tab in each of these databases to look for news stories. Lexis is UK news, Nexis international.
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.
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.
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.
Useful for legal information and cases. In addition please use Nexis and Lexis which are in the newspaper tab. These are also law databases.
Aimed at helping the busy practitioner, Practical Law provides legal updates, practice notes, standard documents, checklists and expert opinions.
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.
Please note these two databases listed below are from the American Psychological Association.
Full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology from the American Psychological Association. Coverage spans 1894 to present.
The American Psycholgical Association's database of abstracts of journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines. Coverage is from the 19th century to the present.
