Social Work
Databases
The following are a list of databases in which
Social Work information can be found. The databases specific
to Social Work are listed below. The other databases on this
list are more general, but Social Work can also be found within
them.
Social Work Abstracts,
SocIndex, Criminal Justice Abstracts, Criminal Justice Periodicals,
Criminology: a Sage Full-Text Collection, ProQuest Psychology
Journals, PsychInfo, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection,
PsycArticles, Women and Social Movements
Academic Search Premier
(Indexing: 1984+,
full-text: 1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals
covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. |
Articles First
Indexes journals in
science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the
humanities, and popular culture. |
Blackwell Synergy
459,037 articles from 780
leading journals |
Britannica Online
The complete encyclopedia,
with related Internet sites and more. Encyclopedia Britannica. |
CQ Researcher Online
Comprehensive, non-biased
reporting and analysis on issues shaping our world. |
CREDO Reference
CREDO Reference, formerly Xreferplus, is a digital reference
library, which contains all types of reference books (currently
169 titles) that you'd want to see in any library: dictionaries,
encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, not to mention
a host of subject-specific titles covering: art, bilinguals,
biography, business, conversions, dictionaries, encyclopedias,
food, geography, history, language law, literature, medicine,
music, philosophy & psychology, quotations, religion, science,
social sciences, technology. Features include a concept mapping
search interface. |
Criminal Justice Abstracts
OFF CAMPUS PATRONS: USE
THE LINK BELOW. Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends,
crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile
justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. |
Criminal Justice Periodicals
A comprehensive collection
of U.S. and international criminal justice journals including
information for professionals in law enforcement, corrections
administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law,
and industrial security. |
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
Full-text of 23 journals
published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals
going back 23 years, encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers
such subjects as Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency,
Juvenile Justice, Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic
Psychology, and Family and Domestic Violence. |
Criminology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
OFF CAMPUS PATRONS: USE
THE LINK BELOW Full-text of 23 journals published by SAGE and
participating societies, some journals going back 23 years,
encompassing over 5,500 articles. It covers such subjects as
Criminal Justice, Juvenile Delinquency, Juvenile Justice,
Corrections, Penology, Policing, Forensic Psychology, and Family
and Domestic Violence. |
Digital Dissertations, Proquest
With more than two million
entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single,
authoritative source for information about doctoral
dissertations and master's theses. Titles since 1997 have 24
page previews available in pdf format. |
Dissertation Abstracts
(Indexing: 1861+,
Abstracting Dissertations: 1980+, Abstracting Theses: 1988+).
The complete range of academic subjects appearing in
dissertations accepted at accredited institutions. |
Ebsco Electronic Journal Service (EJS)
Provides access to
full-text of many of FSU's online journal subscriptions and also
EJS Journals via pay per view. Includes searching in article
titles, journal titles, abstracts, full-text and title list
browsing. |
Ebscohost
Search up to 24 of FSU's
databases simultaneously |
ECO
(Electronic Collection
Online). An OCLC collection of scholarly journals. |
Enciclopedia Universal en Español
|
Ethnic News Watch
News Culture and History
from 200+ Publications of the Ethnic, Minority, and Native
Press. |
FirstSearch
A collection of online
databases licensed for use by FSU students, faculty and staff. |
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
(Current). This resource
features over 25,000 informative segments to meet the research
needs of elementary, middle, and high schools students. |
Gale Ready Reference Shelf
Integrates 14 of Gale's
reference directories. It contains more than 320,000 listings
for associations, research centers, publishers, publications,
databases, television and radio stations, and more. |
Gale Virtual Reference Library
A database of E-Book
reference titles. |
JSTOR
STOR is a not-for-profit
organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a
trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide
access to these journals as widely as possible. |
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Provides access to a wide
range of news, business, legal and reference information. |
Master File Premier
Provides full text for
over 1,770 general reference, business, consumer health, general
science, and multi-cultural periodicals. |

Mental Measurements Yearbook
Produced by the Buros
Institute at the University of Nebraska, this database provides
users with a comprehensive guide to over 2,000 contemporary
testing instruments. Designed for an audience ranging from
novice test consumers to experienced professionals, the MMY
series contains information essential for a complete evaluation
of test products within such diverse areas as psychology,
education, business, and leadership. First published by Oscar K.
Buros, the MMY series allows users to make knowledgeable
judgments and informed selection decisions about the
increasingly complex world of testing. MMY provides coverage
from Volume 9 to the present. |
National Criminal Justice Reference
Service Abstracts
Summaries of more than
160,000 criminal justice publications including: Federal, State,
and local government reports, books, research, reports, journal
articles, and unpublished research. |
NCLIVE
A core group of reference
and research materials online in the form of full-text
electronic information and indexes. |
Opposing Viewpoints
Draws on the acclaimed
social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as
core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference
USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for
information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic
overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and
full-text magazine and newspaper articles. |
PAIS International
(1972-current). Citations
to public policy literature of economics, government, law,
international business, political science, public
administration, and other social sciences. |
Papers First
An index of papers
presented at conferences. |
Periodical Abstracts
(1987-current). Abstracts
from general and academic journals, covering business, current
affairs, economics, literature, religion, psychology, women's
studies, and others. |
Proceedings First
(1993+). An index of
conference publications. |
ProQuest Direct
Search up to a dozen
Proquest databases simultaneously |
Proquest Dissertations and Theses- Full
Text
More than two million
dissertation and theses from 1861 to the present, many of them
full text. |
ProQuest Psychology Journals
Over 400 journals and
related publications in psychology. |
PsychInfo
1887-current). Indexes and
abstracts journal articles and book chapters in psychology and
behavioral sciences. |
Psychology and Behavioral Sciences
Collection
The Psychology &
Behavioral Sciences Collection is a comprehensive database
providing nearly 575 full text publications, including 550
peer-reviewed journals. The database covers topics such as
emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry &
psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational
and experimental methods. |
PyscARTICLES
PsycARTICLES is a
definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed
scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The
PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized,
basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research. The database
contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45
published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11
from allied organizations. |
Reader’s Guide
(Indexing: 1983+,
Abstracting: 1984+). Abstracts of articles from popular
magazines. |
Science Direct
ScienceDirect is the
unsurpassed single source for scientific, technical and medical
information on the Internet. Researchers can access a critical
mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text articles |
Serials Directory
(Indexing: current).
Information includes journal price, e-mail and Internet address. |
SIRS Researcher
(Indexing: 1988+,
Summaries: 1994+). Thousands of full-text articles exploring
social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global
issues. |
Social Work Abstract
The Social Work Abstracts
database contains more than 45,000 records, from 1977 - present,
from social work and related journals on topics such as
homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, substance
abuse, legislation, and more. |
SocINDEX
SocINDEX with Full Text
offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all
sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These
include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography,
ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family,
political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social
development, social psychology, social structure, social work,
socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological
research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other
addictions, violence and many others. In addition, SocINDEX with
Full Text features over 5,000 Author Profiles. |
Union Lists of Periodicals
(Current). Journal
bibliographic information and Library holdings. |
Web of Science
Covers over 8,000
international journals in the sciences, social sciences, and the
arts and humanities. |
Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
With Full text of articles
from over 1,750 publications and Article abstracts and indexing
from over 3,500 publications, Wilson OmniFile is especially
convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross
disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more.
Wilson OmniFile is even helpful to those who are unsure which
specialty to search for their topic of interest. |
Wilson Select Plus
(1994-current). Contains
indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII
full text online. |
Women and Social Movements
"Currently includes 61
document projects with 1,645 documents, and at least 21,000
pages of additional full-text documents. It includes as well
book, film and website reviews." |
World Almanac
The World Almanacs -
fundamental reference resources. |
World Cat
Union catalog of materials
held in libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly. |

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