Social Work Subject Guide

Fay Bush

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Gale
Broad collection provides newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and trade publications from 1980 to present. Also includes entries from encyclopedias, specialized reference sources, and radio and televison transcripts
CSA - Social Sciences Subject Area
- PsycArticles (CSA) PsycARTICLES is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe & Huber. The database includes all material from the print journals.
- PsycINFO (CSA)
Sage Fulltext Collection
WilsonSelectPlus (FirstSearch)
- Wide collection of professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines from 1994 to present, with all articles available electronically.
Social Work Abstracts
- Abstracts of the leading publications in the Social Work field published from 1977 to the present.
WorldCat(FirstSearch)
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral Sciences.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- Available through Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Choose Social Science

These databases provide articles, reports, and statistics on controversial issues.

CQ Researcher
- CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
Opposing Viewpoints
- Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues. Includes reference works and radio and televison transcripts.
Facts on File Issues and Controversies
- Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Discovery Guides
- Select the Discovery Guides tab. Provides overviews of a variety of current topics, including key articles, websites, and scholars within the debate.

Wiley InterScience
CPI
- Christian Periodical Index is an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
ATLA Religion (FirstSearch)
- A "FirstSearch" database of articles in Religion, Bible, Theology, Philosophy, Ministry, etc., from over 1550 journals, including 60 leading theology journals that provide full-text articles. Produced by the American Theological Library Association. Supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818.
IDEAL (International Digital Electronic Access Library)
- 174 full text journals through Science Direct.
Michigan eLibrary (MEL)
- Check out the Society & Social Issues pathfinder.

Project Muse (for on-campus users)
- Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. See Journal Titles list.
eBooks Michigan
- A collection of almost 18,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."