MSW 530: Understanding Social Work Research
Getting an Article with a Citation
If you already have the citation to an article, click on CitationLinker below and fill in the details. If we have access to the article, you will be given a link to the article. If not, you will have a link in which you can request the article via Resource Sharing.
Article Databases
- Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIncludes current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Database abstracts and indexes thousands of serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Some full text.
- Nursing & Allied Health Premium This link opens in a new windowPrimarily Nursing, but also strong in Social Work.
- CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowAuthoritative coverage of the literature related to nursing and allied health. Virtually all English-language publications are indexed along with the publications of the American Nurses Association and the National League for Nursing. Some full text.
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowInternational literature in psychology and related disciplines such as psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work. Nearly all records contain nonevaluative summaries, and all records from 1967 are indexed using the Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowScholarly articles, mostly in the sciences, though some social sciences. Citations from 1980. Some full text starting in 1993, more full text from 1997.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Broad database with both academic and general articles. Many are full text, but some are citation only. - Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowA robust full text searching tool to find scholarly articles, but sometimes the results are not actually full text without paying a fee. Click on "FindIt@WinonaState" listed on the right hand side to get access to full text articles that are available through Krueger Library.
If you click on >> in your search results and click "GetIt@WinonaState," you'll be taken to OneSearch where you can sign in to request the item through ILL/Resource Sharing.
