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Resources for SOCIAL WORK

Contents:

• Library Collections and Services
• Writing Research Papers
• Library Databases
• Electronic Journals and Citations
• Selected Web Sites
• Internet Search Tools
• Associations and Research Institutions
• University of Connecticut, School of Social Work
• Library Liaison

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Library Collections and Services

• The UCONN Libraries Catalog: HOMER UCAT
• Request for Purchase Form
  Use this form to suggest titles to be added to the Libraries' collections.
• Current Awareness and Alerting Services
  Many of the libraries' licensed research databases and electronic journal collections offer users the ability to create research alert profiles - automated keyword search and tables of contents alerts for journals, sent weekly to an email address.
• eJournal Locator
  The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to over 10,000 journals, online and in full text, through various databases and commercial online journal providers. The Full Text Journal Locator can be used to determine if a title is available through one or more of the Libraries' electronic resources, and to connect to the database or online journal directly.
• Document Delivery and Interlibrary Loan Service
• Research Guides to Print and Electronic Resources
  
• How To Guides to Electronic Reference Services

Related Resource Guides

• Resources for Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Resources for Human Development and Family Studies
• Resources for Numeric and Geospatial Data Services
• Resources for Sociology
• Resources for Women's Studies

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Writing Research Papers

This section provides links to information which will help you write a research paper, properly cite source materials, and avoid plagiarism.

• Academic Honesty and Intellectual Ownership
• Electronic sources Citation Styles from ONLINE!
  Includes citation styles from APA, MLA, Chicago, and others.
• Tutorial on Writing

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Library Databases

• Research Database Locator (dCompass)
  The University of Connecticut subscribes to over 240 Web-Based, commercially-produced research and citation databases.
• Academic Search Premier via EBSCOHost
• Academic Universe (Lexis/Nexis)
  
• Ageline
• Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption
  Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption is indispensable for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect. Citations and abstracts are to books, journal articles, final reports from federally-funded grants, conference papers, unpublished papers, reports on completed on continuing research, as well as descriptions of service programs and prevention and treatment strategies.
• ERIC
  premier national bibliographic database of education literature, 1966+
• FirstSearch
  This gateway provides a number of database. WorldCat locates books and other materials in libraries worldwide. Books in Print indexes current books which are published or distributed in the United States.
• InfoTrac OneFile
  An abstracting and fulltext service which provides indexing to 1550 general interest journals.
• PsycINFO
  Index to the fields of psychology and related social and behavioral science, including journal literature, technical reports and dissertations, 1887+
• reQuest
  reQuest is an online bibliographic database containing the holdings of most of the public, special, hospital, and academic libraries in Connecticut. Use reQuest primarily to find the location of materials not held by the University of Connecticut Libraries.
• SCOPUS
  SCOPUS is the world's largest journal indexing and abstracting database with 27 million records covering articles from 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers (figures taken from About Scopus - Content Coverage).
• Social Work Abstracts (SWAB)
  Indexes and abstracts 450 journals in social work and human services, 1977+
• Sociological Abstracts
  Indexes a variety of literature in all fields of theoretical and applied sociology, 1963+ Sociological Abstracts is international in scope and many foreign language journals are included.
• Thomas : legislative information on the web
  
• Westlaw Campus
  

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Electronic Journals and Citations

• eJournal Locator
  The University of Connecticut Libraries purchases access to over 10,000 journals, online and in full text, through various databases and commercial online journal providers. The Full Text Journal Locator can be used to determine if a title is available through one or more of the Libraries' electronic resources, and to connect to the database or online journal directly.

Selected Web Sites

• Columbia University Social Work Library
• Joint Center for Poverty Research
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Praxis: Resources for Social and Economic Development
• Public Agenda Online: Public Opinion and Public Policy
• Social Work and Social Services Web site
  This page from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work may take time to load, but it contains an extensive index to web sites of interest to social work researches.
• SocioWeb Your independent guide to sociological resources on the Internet
• Influencing State Policy
• Statistical Resources (University of Michigan)
• Urban Institute
  A nonprofit policy research organization that investigates the social and economic problems confronting the nation and government policies and public and private programs designed to alleviate them. Includes a Hot Topics section of press releases, fact sheets and relevant research.
• Websites with Statistical Data
• WWW Virtual Library - Social Sciences

• Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
  CSWE is recognized as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the U.S.
• NASW Code of Ethics
• Social Work and Social Services Jobs Online
• Social Work Examinations Services

• Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF)
• Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago
• Child Welfare League of America
• Future of Children
• Children Now
• Children's Defense Fund
• Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)

• HUDUSER
  Maintained by the Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, this site links to 9 databases which contain social data related to topics related to urban life.
• Knowledge Exchange Network, Center for Mental Health Services
  Offers public access to four databases: Mental Health Services Database, Mental Health Directory, Consumer/Survivor Database, and the Mental Health Services Publications Database.
• PREVLINE databases
  Access to databases for research in the area of substance abuse, including: Medline, National Directory of Drug Abuse and Alcoholism Treatment and Prevention Programs, and the ETOH bibliographic database.
• WWW Resources for Social Workers

• Mental Measurements Yearbook Online (MMYO)
  Mental Measurements Yearbook, produced by the Buros Institute, contains fulltext information about and reviews of all English-language standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational aptitude, psychology, and related areas as included in the printed Mental Measurements Yearbooks.

Internet Search Tools

• UConn Libraries Search Tools
• FindLaw
• Yahoo! Social Work

Associations and Research Institutions

• American Geriatrics Society
• Clinical Social Work Federation
• International Federation of Social Workers
• National Alliance for the Mentally Ill
• National Association of Social Workers (NASW) Online
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• National Mental Health Association