LibGuides: Social Work: Finding Library Resources

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Library OneSearch
Use the library's catalog to find books, videos, recordings, and government documents available through the library.
MelCat
A statewide catalog of many of Michigan's libraries. It allows you to request books at another library be sent to Kresge Library for you.

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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window
This database includes bibliographic records and full text of journals related to criminal justice and criminology. Subjects covered include corrections, prisons, criminal investigations, forensic sciences, investigation, substance abuse, addiction, probation, and parole.
Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) This link opens in a new window
HAPI is a source for locating or reviewing health and psychosocial measurement instruments. It is an index to journal articles and other sources about measurement tools used in in the health fields, psychosocial sciences, organizational behavior, and library and information science. HAPI includes citations to questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, index measures, coding schemes/ manuals, rating scales, projective techniques, vignettes/scenarios, tests.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Full text of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Browsable by discipline and full-text searchable across all disciplines. Years available vary with each title, but the most recent issues available in JSTOR will be 3-5 years old.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Citation Index Expanded This link opens in a new window
A multi-disciplinary index covering the journal literature of the social sciences. A subfile of the Web of Science database, it provides unique access to the bibliographic information and cited references of all items published in leading social science journals.
Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides indexing and abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews on social work. Includes research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including welfare services, social education and practice, community and mental health services, and health policy.
Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracts for journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
This database provides indexing and abstracts of articles, conference papers, books, dissertations, and conference papers on theoretical and applied sociology, social science, and policy science. Covers sociological aspects of anthropology, gender studies, gerontology, family studies, health, racial interactions, social psychology, social work, and urban studies.

Online Reference Resources

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
The reference for students, researchers, librarians, and academics in the field. This ground-breaking project brings together specially commissioned entries written and edited by an international team of the world's best scholars and teachers.
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
This comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia covers the major theories, research, people and issues in contemporary gender studies. It is distinguished by a cross-national, cross-cultural perspective providing comparative analyses of life experiences of men and women around the world.
Encyclopedia of Gerontology: Age, Aging, and the Aged
the most comprehensive work on age, aging, and the aged available. This entirely new encyclopedia covers the latest research on the biology, psychology, and sociology of aging in addition to covering how aging is depicted in the humanities. This dynamic field has grown over the years to encompass fascinating studies of development and change with age. This encyclopedia provides a reference source for identifying major areas of investigation and our knowledge to date.
Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society
This encyclopedia offers a comprehensive look at the roles race and ethnicity play in society and in our daily lives. Over 100 racial and ethnic groups are described, with additional thematic essays offering insight into broad topics that cut across group boundaries and which impact on society.
Encyclopedia of Social Problems
From terrorism to social inequality and from health care to environmental issues, social problems affect us all. This encyclopedia offers an interdisciplinary perspective into these and other social problems that are a continuing concern in our lives.
Encyclopedia of Social Work
Over 400 overview articles on key topics ranging from international issues to ethical standards, 200+ succinct biographies of key figures in social work history.

Journal Citation Reports (JCR) This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive resource that allows users to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from scholarly and technical journals from publishers in over 80 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. The OU community has access to the Science edition and the Social Sciences edition of JCR.
UlrichsWeb This link opens in a new window
UlrichsWeb (Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory) contains subscription, publisher, ISSN and other information on active and ceased serials worldwide: magazines, journals, annuals and more.