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Social Work

The following resources have been compiled by the librarians with specific regard to the field of Social Work.

Reference Books

  • Encyclopedia of social welfare history in North America. 2005. Ref 361.973 En19H 2005
    Defines social welfare broadly to include education, informal mutual assistance, the development of the social work profession, and voluntary charitable activities as well as state supported public welfare activities. The coverage is therefore broad and interdisciplinary, including the fields of anthropology, health sciences, history, political science, social work, and sociology.
  • Encyclopedia of homelessness. 2004. 2 volumes. Ref 362.5 En19L
    This set is the first systematic effort to organize and summarize what we know about this complex topic that impacts not only the homeless but all of society. Includes themes such as causes of homelessness, lifestyle issues, history, legal issues, public perceptions, and world issues.
  • Encyclopedia of elder care. 2004. Ref 362.19897 En19m
    Multidisciplinary by nature, the coverage includes acute and chronic disease, home care including family-based care provisions, nursing home care, rehabilitation, health promotion, disease prevention, education, case management, social services, assisted living, advance directives, palliative care, and others.
  • Social worker's desk reference. 2002. Ref 361.32 So13
    Written by leading scholars and practitioners in the field, it covers the full spectrum of social work practice. Each chapter includes up-to-date information, practice guidelines, and treatment plans necessary for success in today's managed-care environment.
  • Encyclopedia social work. 1995. 3 volumes and 2 supplements. Ref 360.973 En19 1995
    Content areas include new technologies, research, global changes, U.S. policy developments, and evolving roles for social workers.
  • The social work dictionary. 1995. Ref 361.303 B24s 1995
    Source for definitions, organizations, concepts, and values relevant to social work and the human services, including many international terms.

Finding Books:

  • Online Catalog
    • Find books, as well as a variety of other materials in the TU Libraries.
    • Use the Advanced search option to specify material format, campus, language, and date range.
  • WorldCat
    • Listed under Essential Tools.
    • Find books, among other things, to request via Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

Finding Articles:

  • Academic Search Premier
    Covers a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general science, education. Provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals, plus the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Christian Science Monitor. Full-text available online for 1,000+ journals, with 380+ titles from 1990-present.
  • MasterFile Premier
    Provides abstracts and indexing for more than 3,200 periodicals on a variety of subjects, including education. Full-text available online for 1,500 titles, with some dating back to 1990.
  • Newspaper Source
    Provides full-text news and/or business articles from over 100 regional US newspapers, cover-to-cover full-text of 10 international newspapers, and the full text of The Christian Science Monitor. Abstracts and indexing for the New York Times (also NYT Magazine and NYT Book Review), Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, USA Today. Includes the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel.
  • PsycINFO
    Includes citations, most with abstracts, for more than 1,300 journals published in 50 countries and 28 languages. Full text to more than 50 periodicals.
  • JSTOR
    JSTOR (Journal STORage) presents the searchable full text of the complete back files for over 100 important scholarly journals. Coverage generally includes the first volume through issues published prior to the most recent 3-5 years (current issues are not available in JSTOR). Includes journals for the following disciplines: African-American studies, anthropology, Asian studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, history, literature, mathematics, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, and statistics. Also search JSTOR via Google Scholar by including "+JSTOR" in the search.

Periodicals

  • Taylor Periodical Title List
    Search by journal title keyword for online full-text journals, and to see what we have in print in the library.
  • Click here for a Social Sciences subject search in the Periodical List to find out what journals (and how many) we have available both in print and online. Click on the blue links to enter the actual list of titles. The numbers in parentheses beside the subject indicate how many journal titles are included in that subject area. Browse under the "Soc..." for interesting topics related to Social Work. It offers several subdisciplines in the social sciences, so browse through to find more specific journals for your topic.

Internet Resources

  • Social work and social services web sites Washington University in St. Louis
    A portal to relevant web sites to social services, divided up by topic, but also searchable by using the browser's Find or Search function.
  • Web sites of interest to social workers (Univ. of Wisconsin)
    A topical list of links to pages of relevant sites related to field of social work. Entries are not annotated, but many of the titles are self-explanatory.
  • Social work search
    Offers the largest online database of links and other services devoted solely to the Social Work profession.
  • Selected websites in social work (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
    Links chosen by librarians that are "useful in our everyday work in the Library", as well as other selected items of interest for those in the social work field.
  • Social work web sites (New Mexico Highlands Univ.)
    Annotated links to web sites, divided up by subject including Children & Family, General Social Work, Gerontology, Health & Mental Health, and Immigration & Poverty.

Research Tools

  • RefWorks
    A citation management program that allows you to collect and organize citations, create bibliographies and works cited pages, and format papers and bibliographies to a specific citation style.
  • CREDO Reference (formerly xreferplus)
    A conglomeration of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias that allows you to search for definitions and encyclopedia articles, as well as develop ideas for expanding or refining a research strategy.

Citation Help

  • Concise rules of APA style. 2005.
    Ref 808.06615 C748 (also in Main collection, same call number)
  • Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. 2001.
    Ref 808.042 Am35 2001 (also in Main Collection)
  • WorldCat.org
    "Cite this item" within individual item record lists the citation in APA, MLA, Chicago and more.
  • Also, contact the Writing Center at writingctr@taylor.edu or visit them on the Portal at http://my.taylor.edu/academic/writingcenter

Product descriptions on this page incorporated from book reviews and product descriptions from various sources.

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Created by Lana Gottschalk, Reference Librarian