NASW Journals
- Children & Schools
Articles on innovations in practice, interdisciplinary efforts, research, program evaluation, policy, and planning. Topics include student-authority relationships, multiculturalism, early intervention, needs assessment, violence, and ADHD.
- Health & Social Work
Covers aging, clinical work, long-term care, oncology, substance abuse, depression, and maternal health. Includes research, policy, specialized services, quality assurance, and other topics affecting the delivery of healthcare services. - Social Work
Explores established practices, new techniques and research, current social problems and problems in the profession. Emphasis is placed on social policy and the solutions to serious human problems. - Social Work Research
Includes analytic reviews of research, theoretical articles pertaining to social work research, evaluation studies, and diverse research studies that contribute to knowledge about social work issues and problems.
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Research Databases
- SocINDEX This link opens in a new windowSocINDEX is the authoritative bibliographic database for sociology research. Indexing covers leading social work journals.
- ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowCovers politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowThe world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.
- Education Source This link opens in a new windowCovers a variety of topics ranging from early childhood to higher education, including specialities such as multilingual education and testing. Provides access to research journal articles, trade and professional publications, monographs, conference papers, and more. Popular database.
Sample Database Searches
- Child Abuse and Social Work in the NorthwestDatabase: SocIndex
Search strategy: child abuse AND social work AND (Oregon OR Washington OR California) - Homeless Youth and Social WorkersDatabase: SocIndex
Search terms: homeless children AND social work - Latino immigration cases in OregonDatabase: Nexis UNI
Search strategy: Content type: Cases
Jurisdiction: State Cases = Oregon
Keyword: Latino immigration
Dates: All