Social Work: Research Resources

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Angela Bardeen
Social Sciences Reference Librarian
Davis Library
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Citing 

APA Style Website

Citing Information Tutorial
Includes coverage of APA style.

Create your own personal article database and automatically format reference lists.

Interlibrary Loan

Can't find the article, book, or report you need at our library? You can request it from another library through interlibrary loan.

Finding Articles

Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts indexes and abstracts over 1,600 current journals and other periodicals, covering articles, dissertations, and book reviews, in the disciplines of social work, human services, and related areas.

Social Work Abstracts
The Social Work Abstracts database, produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc., contains more than 35,000 records,spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and other related journals.

PsycINFO
With over 2,000,000 records, this is the most comprehensive collection of academic psychological work and relevant materials from related disciplines.

PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine, PubMed contains citations and links to full text from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.

Sociological Abstracts
Sociological Abstracts provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.

Cochrane Library
Includes the full text of the regularly updated systematic reviews of the effects of health care prepared by The Cochrane Collaboration.

Finding Books and More 

Finding Standardized Measurements

Guide to Tests, Surveys, and Measures
This in-depth guide will assist you in finding reviews, and sometimes the actual tests and measures.

Mental Measurements Yearbook
This is a comprehensive guide with reviews to over 2,000 contemporary testing instruments.

HAPI (Health and Psychosocial Instruments)
Provides ready access to information on measurement instruments in the health fields and psychosocial sciences.

Tests and Measures in the Social Sciences: Tests available in compilation volumes
This website from the University of Texas, Arlington, lists all the tests and measures available in 116 compilation volumes. Check here to see if the test you are looking for is part of a compilation volume.

More Resources
Checking databases such as ERIC and CINAHL may also assist you, as will searching the library catalog.

Browse Journals  

Browse major social work-related research journals

Social Work

Social Work Research

Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

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Reference

The Writing Center

Visit UNC's Writing Center to make appointments, find writing tips, and access handouts useful for writing literature reviews and research papers.

Google Scholar

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