LibGuides: Social Work: Specific Resources

Key databases for Social Work

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Complete includes literature relating to humanities, health sciences, technology and social science. It contains peer reviewed academic journals as well as popular sources.

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ERIC (EBSCOhost)
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources. Sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences of the U.S. Department of Education, it is essential too for education researchers of all kinds.

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JSTOR
JSTOR is a digital library containing digitized back issues of academic journals. Many of the articles are 3 - 5 years and some are Irish material. However, it also includes some books, primary sources and current issues of journals.

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
Academic Search Complete includes literature relating to humanities, health sciences, technology and social science. It contains peer reviewed academic journals as well as popular sources.

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Emerald Insight
Emerald provides access to full text articles. Relevant for business, health and safety, quality, marketing, tourism, sociology, HR, accounting, engineering and education subject areas. Emerald Resources area includes a Research Zone and a Learning Zone.

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ScienceDirect
Science Direct provides access to abstracts and full text articles in science, engineering, business and humanities journals published by Elsevier. The library subscription includes full text of articles for approximately the past five years. This database is useful for a range of subjects including finance, marketing, psychology, social sciences, tourism civil engineering and electronic engineering.

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Science Direct is actually a great source of articles on a broad range of subject

Key journals

A glance at the range of ejournals you can access through our databases from the A-Z journal list in Publication Finder

The journal links provided are to give you a flavour of the database, you need spend some time working with each database to become familiar with its content and features.

Community, work and family

International journal of human resource management

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Ebooks

Doing your undergraduate social science dissertation [electronic resource] / Karen Smith, Malcolm Todd and Julia Waldman.
Covering the whole dissertation journey from project planning to submission.
Writing Readable Research : A Guide for Students of Social Science
Core Themes in Social Work : Power, Poverty, Politics and Values
This book will challenge students and practitioners to locate themselves in the arena of effective critical practice by exploring core themes which are central to how we think about and carry out the professional role of social worker.

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