What is a Reference Work?
Reference sources are works that are designed to give an overview of a subject, often offering a high-level and generic description or definition and supplying recommendations for further reading. At an academic library, we collect specialized encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks that also focus on specific interventions, research methods, or scholarly conversations.
In short, reference sources are some of the best places to get started doing high-level academic research on a given topic.
Reference Works for Social Work
- Social Work Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Why Search Here?
You are looking for point-of-care information, authoritative clinical overviews of a topic, or clinical resources written specifically for social workers. Excellent quick access tool and starting point for deeper research.What's Included?
Evidence-based quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, clinical assessment tools, continuing education modules, practices and skills, patient education handouts, and drug information, all written with a social work lens.
Reference Works for Social Work
- Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Why Search Here?
You need a quick and credible answer, are gathering information about a new topic, looking for a list of recommended reading in an area, or looking for a definition or overview.What's Included?
Over 2 million full text articles from over 900 dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, popular and scholarly encyclopedias, quote books and atlases, plus a wide range or subject-specific titles covering everything from accounting to zoology. - Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Why Search Here?
You're getting started on a topic and want something more reliable than Wikipedia, or you're looking for a solid overview of a scholarly topic.What's Included?
spans 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.
Dictionary of Social Work: the Definitive a to Z of Social Work and Social Care by Call Number: eBookPublication Date: 2010
