Social Work

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Reading Lists

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Key Starters for Essays, Projects and Independent Studies

Identify different sources of information and link to ebooks and other top sources

Finding Articles and Key Practitioner Updates

For many assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough sources to work with. This short video shows you how to get the best from Discovery.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals, including those with a practitioner focus - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular sources as a good way of finding articles or practitioner information. This section lists key sources for Social Work.

• Why Use Journal Articles?

• Databases, including Key Practitioner Sources

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If you don't like the large number of results on Discovery, you might prefer to try these more focused sources.

• CareKnowledge

CareKnowledge keeps you up to date with social care information covering all relevant policy, research and practice materials published in the UK. It provides access to an extensive archive of research documents, policy papers, journal articles, up-to-date editor’s briefings and special reports.

• CINAHL

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

CINAHL (the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature) contains journal article abstracts with links to the full-text where available. It is aimed at Nursing and Allied Health areas and contains articles relevant to Social Work. As well as normal keyword searching, it has Thesaurus searching to help expand search terms and you can refine results by date, peer reviewed, age, gender, author, language etc.

• Community Care Inform Adults

This online resource has been built with and for social workers and other professionals who work with vulnerable adults and their families. The site aims to equip practitioners and students with the information they need to confidently make informed decisions and assessments. Stay on top of the latest guidance, good practice, research, legislation and case law and actively expand your knowledge base by learning through case work. The quick guides work as well on mobile as they do on a computer making them perfect to check while on the move.

• Community Care Inform Children

This online resource has been built with and for social workers and other professionals who work with children, young people and their families. The overall aim of the site is to improve standards of practice by equipping practitioners with the information they need to confidently make informed decisions and assessments; stay on top of the latest guidance, good practice, research, legislation and case law; and to actively expand their knowledge base by learning through case work.

• PsycInfo

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Locate articles and other material related to psychology, psychiatry, social work, management, education, social sciences, neuroscience and medicine. Use the Filters options to refine results by date, peer reviewed, age, gender, author, language etc., whilst Subjects gives you access to the APA Thesaurus of preferred terms for particular topics.

• SocINDEX

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

A key source for tracking down articles across the social sciences. This database is available on the EBSCO platform allowing you to search this database alongside others within Discovery.

Very useful for a range of Social Work topics