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Social Work Articles in Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers

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Social Services Abstracts

Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

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Social Work Abstracts

Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to 1965. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

Coverage: 1965 - present

Sociological Collection

Sociological Collection Mobile
This database provides coverage of more than 500 full-text journals, including more than 500 peer-reviewed titles. Sociological Collection offers information in all areas of sociology, including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, culture, and social structure.
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JSTOR : the Scholarly Journal Archive

For a search within a subset of full-text retrospective articles in social work use JSTOR. Includes titles such as Journal of Marriage and Family, Law and Society Review, Social Indicators Research, and The Social Service Review.

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LexisNexis Academic

LexisNexis Academic Search is a powerful database for finding business, legal and news information. Use this database to look up law reviews and state/federal cases & codes.

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PsycARTICLES

Includes full text articles for journals published by the American Psychological Association, including those relating to Social Work topics. Includes titles such as Psychology of Addicitive Behaviors, Psychology, Public Policy and Law, Prevention and Treatment, and Journal of Counseling Psychology.

Academic Search Premier

To broaden your search use this comprehensive multidisplinary database which indexes articles from over 1000 Social Work journals and most articles are provided in full text. Includes titles such as Journal of Social Work Education, Journal of Multicultural Social Work, Journal of Family Social Work, and Global Social Policy.