Librarian
Aurora Jacobsen
she/her
Subjects: Accounting, Child Advocacy Studies (CAST), Health, Exercise, and Rehabilitative Sciences (HERS), Healthcare Leadership & Administration (HLA), Individualized Studies, Library and Information Science, Physical Education and Sports Science (PESS), Recreation, Tourism, and Therapeutic Recreation (RTTR), Social Work
Core Social Work library databases
These databases index the highest concentration of Social Work journals.
Some databases provide article citations, but not full text. The Find It! button will link to full text across databases. If full text is not available, request it via Interlibrary Loan.
- 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.
- Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowInternational literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Some open access full text. Coverage from 1952.
- 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.
Other useful databases for Social Work research
These databases, while not concentrated on Social Work, offer many articles pertinent to Social Work topics.
- 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. - ERIC (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Via EBSCO. The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) contains more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 317,000 full text documents dating back to 1966.
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Can't find it? We can get it!
The Citation Linker / Find It searches across databases. If the resource is not in our holdings, a Resource Sharing Request will appear.
