Social Work Specific Online Databases (in alphabetical order)

Social Sciences Citation Index

The Social Sciences Citation INDEX is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully INDEXES more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, including Anthropology, Public Health, Social Issues, Social Work, Sociology, Substance Abuse, Urban Studies, and Women's Studies.

It INDEXES individually selected scientific and technical journals; dating from 2000 to present. It does NOT include full-text access to articles, but you can request articles through Inter-Library Loan (ILL).

SocINDEX with Full Text

Provides FULL TEXT coverage for 253 core journals and 72 priority journal titles.  It encompasses all sub-disciplines and closely related areas such as anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, religion, social structure, social work, substance abuse, and urban studies; some starting in 1895 to present.

Includes FULL TEXT for 547 books and monographs and for 6,711 conference papers.  This database features over 1.6 million records.

General Online Databases (which include Social Work subjects, in alphabetical order)

AcademicSearch Premier (EbscoHost)

An interdisciplinary database which covers diverse areas of study, including education, computer sciences, engineering, physics and math, and includes full-text articles to over 4,595 periodicals.

American National Biography

Contains biographies of almost 18,000 deceased men and women, whose lives have shaped America; includes hyperlinks to association descriptions in The Oxford Companion to United States History (2001). Search for social workers, or by name.

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher includes in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each report provides a discussion of the issue, pros and cons, background information, chronology, future outlook, a bibliography and links to related reports; dating from 1991 to the present.

CQ Weekly

The complete source for expert coverage of the United States Congress, including the status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity; dating from 1983 to the present.

Encyclopedia Britannica

Online version of the familiar work. A good source for topics, history and websites on Social Work. Choose Search or Browse. Items to browse include a World Atlas; multidisciplinary, interactive Timeline, or Year in Review.

Expanded Academic ASAP

It covers all academic disciplines. It is comprised of more than 3,500 indexed and full-text titles — of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed — in all disciplines. It offers coverage on a wide-range of topics including social sciences, humanities, education, science and technology; dating from 1985 to the present.

Gale’s Ready Reference Shelf

It provides integrated access to 355,000 entries culled from the databases of fourteen of Gale's most popular reference directories and comprises three files: Organizations, Publications, and Databases. GRRS is searchable as a whole or as individual files.  

General Reference Center Gold

A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use it to find: articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images; find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, etc.; dating from 1980 to the present.

iCONN Newsstand

A collection of 6 major newspaper titles including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Hartford Courant. Newspapers include current news and events in the field of social work and social services.

InfoTrac Onefile

A general resource for articles from major magazines, newspapers, business and technology publications, and academic journals covering a broad range of topics; dating from 1980 to the present.

Ingenta

Connects users to one of the most comprehensive collections of academic and professional research articles online; dating from 1988 to the present.

JSTOR

An archive of FULL-TEXT scholarly journals in cross-disciplinary fields such as anthropology, sociology and social work. JSTOR is NOT A CURRENT ISSUES DATABASE. There is a gap, from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the content available.

NetLibrary

NetLibrary eBooks are digital full-text versions of books such as reference works, scholarly monographs, literature and fiction. ECSU has access to 4,478 electronic books via the NetLibrary interface.

WorldCat

OCLC catalog of books and other materials (manuscripts, websites and internet resources,  maps, computer programs, newspapers, journals and magazines, sound recordings, articles, chapters, papers, videotapes) in libraries worldwide.

xreferplus

This is an online reference collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, subject-specific books and more.  Topics include items from the arts to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

Subject Specific Online Databases (in Alphabetical order) 

CINAHL

The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature database is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for 1,835 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health; dating from 1982 to the present.

Contemporary Women's Issues

This database provides FULL-TEXT access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, and research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies are easily accessed on women in over 190 countries; bringing together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration, and political science.

Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW)

ENW is an interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive FULL-TEXT database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses; dating from 1990 to the present.

GenderWatch (GW)

GW is a FULL-TEXT database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of an important historical perspective on the evolution of the women's movement and the changes in gender roles. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, booklets and NGO, government and special reports.

Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module

HWRC is a collection of health and wellness information from magazines, medical journals, newspapers, organizations, and reference sources. The Alternative Health module views health care from a holistic viewpoint. The Disease Profiler module offers an empirical, statistical complement to the disease information in HWRC; dating from 1980 to the present.

MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE allows users to search ABSTRACTS from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Medline Plus

MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Pre-formulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. It also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Pre-CINAHL

Pre-CINAHL is a companion database to CINAHL. It is intended to provide current awareness of new journal articles, and includes a rotating file of limited bibliographic information (no subject searching), which are available to searchers only for the time when these articles are being assigned additional indexing. Once complete, they are added to the CINAHL database and removed from Pre-CINAHL.

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