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- Social Work Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndexes and abstracts articles about social work, and registered social workers (Limited to 4 simultaneous users).
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowA medical and health database developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that provides access and searching for life science journals.
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Full text coverage of scholarly publications in sociology, including journals, magazines, books, working papers, dissertations, conference proceedings, and an extensive thesaurus - MEDLINE This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts journal articles in a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services. - Child Development & Adolescent Studies This link opens in a new window
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Current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. - Family Studies Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts covering marriage, divorce, family therapy, and more. - PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
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An index with abstracts to journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations in psychology and related disciplines (sociology, linguistics, anthropology, education, medicine, law, physiology, business, psychiatry, nursing, pharmacology). - Scopus This link opens in a new windowIndexing, abstracts, and citation searching for science and social science scholarly literature.
- Criminal Justice Abstracts This link opens in a new windowIndex with abstracts of international journal articles, books, reports, dissertations.
- Violence & Abuse Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Covers essential areas related to violence and abuse, including family violence, sexual assault, emotional abuse, and other areas relevant to the discipline.
- Google ScholarSearch for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research...
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Multidisciplinary index and full text source for scholarly journals and magazines. - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowFull online text and images for back issues of selected scholarly journals and monographs in history, economics, political science, anthropology, sociology, literature, etc.
- Education Research Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text journals on educational research in early childhood to higher education, educational specialties, multilingual education, health education and testing. - ERIC This link opens in a new window
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Index with abstracts to educational periodicals and unpublished documents available since 1966. - Peace Research Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Abstracts covering essential topics related to peace analysis including conflict resolution, international affairs, and peace psychology. - Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
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Full text for over 820 journals on agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.
Open Access (Free) Journals
- Critical Social Work JournalFrom the School of Social Work of The University of Windsor. This journal is particularly focused on the topic of social justice, although there are several others, such as the take on spirituality and ecology within social work. Issues from 2000 to present are available.
- Advances in Social WorkAdvances in Social Work is a journal developed by the Indiana University School of Social Work. Its aim is to bring together social work practice, research and education and it covers: clinical practice, community organization, social administration, social policy, planning and program evaluation. You can find ten volumes available, from 2000 to present.
- Clinical Social Work JournalFounded in 1973, the Clinical Social Work Journal publishes leading, peer-reviewed original articles relevant to contemporary clinical practice with individuals, couples, families, and groups. It also presents innovations in theoretical, practice, evidence-based clinical research, and interdisciplinary approaches.
- Child and Adolescent Social Work JournalChild and Adolescent Social Work Journal (CASW) features original articles that focus on social work practice with children, adolescents, and their families. The journal addresses current issues in the field of social work drawn from theory, direct practice, research, and social policy.
- Child & Family Social Work[Note, only current issue is available for free.] Child & Family Social Work provides a forum where researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and managers in the field exchange knowledge, increase understanding and develop notions of good practice.
- Journal of Social Work Values and EthicThe journal gives special emphasis in values and ethics in social work, presenting articles about ethical dilemmas and the advances being made within the field.
- Advocates' Forum (student journal)The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Advocates' Forum is one of only a few student-run social work journals in the country. It provides SSA students with an opportunity to express their scholarly interests, through carefully written and researched articles on innovative topics in the field of social service.
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