Social Work
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: Locate materials in Reed Library.
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• SocIndex Plus Full Text: Provides journal articles for all areas of Sociology, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.
• PsycInfo: Citations and summaries of psychology topics.  Also includes the psychological aspects of medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Coverage from 1887 to present.
• Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Full-text articles on social issues.  Includes topic overviews, primary sources, statistics, photographs and podcasts.
• Social Work Abstracts (Shelved in the ABSTRACTS section of Reference)

Reference

• The Social Work Dictionary: Ref HV 12 B37 2003
• The Encyclopedia of Social Work: Ref HV 35 S6 1995
• Social Worker's Desk Reference: Ref HV 40 S6464 2002
• Gale Virtual Reference Library: A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
• Oxford Reference: Includes over 175 subject reference works.

Other Tools

• National Association of Social Workers
• New York State Social Work: License, laws, practice, guidelines, & training.