This guide was designed by Ken Frankel to help identify resources on Social Work and related topics in the FAU Boca Raton Library. The electronic resources are available from the FAU Libraries home page by following the links entitled Indexes/ Databases or Articles. Some of these resources have full-text articles available online. To access these resources from off campus, use the EZ Proxy link and log in using your 14-digit Owl Card number. For further assistance, please contact the Reference Desk by telephone (561-297-3785) or send e-mail lyref@fau.edu.


ELECTRONIC DATABASES

Academic Search Premier - Academic Search Premier, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 8,200 journals in the collection. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more. Academic Search Premier is an enormous collection of the most valuable peer-reviewed full text journals, offering critical information from many sources unique to this database.
Campus Research: Law - A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.
Criminal Justice Abstracts - Contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations, and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.
LexisNexis Academic   -  Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.
Ethnic Newswatch - Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text general reference database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language.
NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers - The NASW Register of Clinical Social Workers, 11th Edition provides a listing of clinical social workers who have met national standards for education and experience established by the NASW Competence Certification Commission on recommendation of the Committee on Clinical Social Work.
PAIS International - Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
PsycArticles - Contains the full text of articles from APA journals and selected EPF journals, most from 1988 to the present.
PsycINFO - Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycINFO covers the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines. These disciplines include medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, health administration, law, and public health.
Social Services Abstracts - Provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Social Science Abstracts - Covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations.
SocINDEX with Full Text - The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 344 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.
Social Sciences Citation Abstracts (see Web of Science) - Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Sociological Abstracts - CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

DICTIONARIES AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

REF HV12 .B37 1999 Barker, Robert L. The Social Work Dictionary. Washington, DC: NASW Press, 1999.
REF HV6626.5MC57 2001 Clark, Robyn E. and Judith Freemans Clark. The Encyclopedia of Child Abuse. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
REF HV12 .B53 2000 Davies, Martin, ed. the Blackwell Encyclopeadia of Social Work. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
REF HV35 .S6 the Blackwell Encyclopeadia of Social Work. New York: National Association of Social Workers, 1995.
REF RA790 .E53 1998 Friedman, Howard S., ed. The Encyclopedia of Mental Health. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1998.
REF HV90 .G53 1995 Ginsberg, Leon H. Social Work Almanac. Washingtion,DC: National NASW Press, 1995.
REF HV5035 .O27 1991 O'Brien, Robert and Morris Chafetz. The Encyclopedia of Alcoholism. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
REF HV27 .B57 1986 Trathner, Walter, I., ed. Biographical Dictionary of Social Welfare. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.


DIRECTORIES

REF HV1553 .C58 1996 The Complete Directory for People with Disabilities, 1996/97: Associations, Newsletters, Books, Products, Services. Lakeville, CT: Grey House Publishing, 1996.
REF HV741 .N3157 National Directory of Children, Youth & Families Services. Longmont: CO: Marion L. Peterson, 1998/1999.
REF RA790.75 .M46 1993 Morgan, Bradley J. and Joseph M. Palmisano, ed. Mental Health and Social Work Career Directory. Detroit: Gale Research, 1993.
REF HV875.55 .A36 1989 Paul, Ellen, ed. The Adoption Directory. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.
REF HV89 .A55 Public Human Services Directory. Washington, DC: American Public Human Services Association, 2001/2002.
REF RA564.8 .R47 1999 Resources for Elders with Disabilities. Lexington, MA: Resources for Rehabilitation, 1999.
REF HV1553 .R482 1999 Resources for People with Disabilities and Chronic Conditions. Lexington, MA: Resources for Rehabilitation, 1999.
REF HV1569.3 .W65 R8 1998 Rubin, Ellen. Bridging the Gap: Services for Women and Girls with Disabilities: a National Directory. New York: Educational Equity Concepts, 1998.
REF HV98 .F56 W44 2000 Where to Turn, 2000-2002: a Directory of Community Resources and Services for Palm Beach County. Lantana, FL: The Center for Information and Crisis Services, 2000.
REF HV1553 .R48 2001 Woodyard, Shawn, ed. Resources for People with Disabilities: a National Directory. Chicago: Ferguson Pub., 2001.

GUIDE TO THE LITERATURE

REF HV6626.52 .G85 1998 Jones, Jerry G. and Carolyn J. Levitt, ed. A Guide to References and Resources in Child Abuse and Neglect. Elk Grove, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics, 1998.
REF HV85 .M46 Mendelsohn, Henry N. An Author's Guide to Social Work Journals. New York: National Association of Social Work, 1983.
REF HV91 .M43 Mendelsohn, Henry N. A Guide To Information Sources for Social Work and the Human Services. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1987.


HANDBOOKS AND MANUALS

REF HV45.5 .H562 1996 Baumohl, Jim, ed. Homelessness in America. Phoenix, AZ: Oryx Press, 1996.
REF RC607 .A26 A3573 1999 Bellenir, Karen, ed. AIDS Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).... Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 1990.
REF RC565 .A4493 2000 Bellenir, Karen, ed. Alcoholism: Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about the Physical and Mental Consequences of Alcohol Abuse. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
REF HV6626.2 .D66 2000 Henderson, Helene, ed. Domestic Violence and Child Abuse Sourcebook: Basic Consumer Health Information about Spousal/Partner, Child, Sibling, Parent, and Elder Abuse. Detroit, MI: Omnigraphics, 2000.
REF HV4505 .H647 2001 Hombs, Mary Ellen. American Homelessness: a Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2001.
REF HV1445 .L56 Lin, Alvin C. Violence Against Women & Families Resource Handbook. Arlington, VA: Government Information Services, 1995.
REF HV875.55 .M645 1998 Moe, Barbara. Adoption: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1998.
REF HV43 .H316 1998 Thyer, Bruce A. and John S. Wodarski. Handbook of Empirical Social Work Practice. New York: J. Wiley, 1998.

 


SELECTED JOURNALS

Note: Some of these titles are also available in electronic format. See the Libraries A-Z list of electronic journals for more information.
HV701 .C48 Child & adolescent social work journal: C & A.
HV1 .J56 Families in society: the journal of contemporary human services.
HV687.5 .U5 H4 Health and social work.
HV1449 .J68 Journal of gay & lesbian social services.
HV1451 .J68 Journal of gerontological social work.
HV701 .C48 Journal of social work education.
HV11 .J674 Journal of teaching in social work.
HV1 .C64 New technology in the human services.
HV1 .R47 Research on social work practice.
LB3013.4 .S36 School social work journal.
HV1 .S63 Social work.
HV1 .S6475 Social work research.
HV45 .S63 Social work with groups.

 

SELECTED WEB SITES
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
American Public Human Services Association
Association of Social Work Boards
Council on Social Work Education
FAU School of Social Work
National Association of Forensic Social Work
National Association of Social Workers
National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect
NASW Florida Chapter
New Social Worker Online
School Social Association of America
Social Work Search.com
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