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Article Databases - Social Work

Search tools for finding journal articles and other types of resources on your subject.

• SocIndex with Full Text (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  SocINDEX features sociology research with indexing for more than 2.1 million records. Full text is available for more than 860 journals dating back to 1908, full text for more than 830 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.

• PsycINFO (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  PsycINFO abstracts scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations in the behavioral sciences and mental health. It contains over 3 million records and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with journal coverage starting in the 1800s includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals.

• Social Services Abstracts (CSA)

  Coverage: Index Only
  Indexes and abstracts current research on social work and human services, including social welfare, social policy, community development, crisis intervention, gerontology, poverty and homelessness.

• Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  Multidisciplinary database providing access to peer-reviewed and general interest journals and magazines; book and film reviews; newspapers; and much more.

• ERIC (EBSCO)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  ERIC indexes Current Journals in Education (CIJE)and Resources in Education(RIE), containing more than 1.3 million records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents dating back to 1966.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000

  Coverage: 1600-2000
  Database of books, documents, images, scholarly essays, commentaries and bibliographies of all aspects of American Women's public lives and political activities.

• JSTOR

  Coverage: Full Text
  Electronic archive of selected core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes complete runs of all titles indexed from Volume 1 to most current available (embargo periods apply). UMBC subscribes to Arts & Science I, II, III; General Science; Ecology & Botany.

• America: History & Life (Ebsco)

  Coverage: Some Full Text
  America: History and Life (AHL) indexes the historical literature on North America (US and Canada) from antiquity to the present. Includes articles, book reviews, links to full text sources.

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RSS Feeds - Social Work Journals

Subscribe to these feeds and have the table of contents and full text articles (of UMBC-subscribed journals) delivered to you desktop through a feed reader.

• Clinical Social Work Journal

• International Social Work

• Journal of Social Work

• Research on Social Work Practice

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All Online Social Work Resources