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Journals
Administration in Social Work. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/ASW/.
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Periodicals Incorporated. http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=133.
Australian Social Work. Kingston, Australia: Australian Association of Social Workers. http://www.aasw.asn.au/.
The British Journal of Social Work. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. http://bjsw.oupjournals.org/.
Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal. New York, NY: Human Sciences. Press. http://www.plenum.com.
Child & Family Social Work. Oxford, United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing Limited. http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1356-7500&site=1.
Child Welfare. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America. http://www.cwla.org/.
Clinical Social Work Journal. New York, NY: Human Sciences Press. http://www.plenum.com.
European Journal of Social Work. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13691457.asp.
Families in Society: the Journal of Contemporary Human Services. Milwaukee, WI: Families International Incorporated. fis@fsanet.org.
The Gerontologist. Washington, DC: Gerontological Society of America http://www.geron.org/journals/gerontologist.html.
Health & Social Work. Washington, DC: National Association of Social Workers. http://www.naswpress.org/publications/journals/health/hswintro.html.
Journal of Community Practice. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/COM/.
Journal of Gerontological Social Work. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JGSW/.
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Alexandria, Virginia: American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy. http://www.aamft.org
Journal of Progressive Human Services. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JPRO/.
The Journal of Social Welfare & Family Law. London, United Kingdom: Routledge Limited, Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09649069.asp.
Journal of Social Work. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications Limited. http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=269.
Journal of Social Work in Disability and Rehabilitation. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JSWDR.
Journal of Social Work in Long-term Care. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/SWLTC/.
Journal of Social Work Practice. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Carfax Publishing, & Francis Group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02650533.asp.
Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JSWPA/.
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare. Kalamazoo, MI: Western Michigan University, College of Health and Human Services. http://www.wmich.edu/hhs/Newslettersjournals/jssw/about.htm.
Journal of Teaching in Social Work. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/JTSW/.
New Social Worker. Harrisburg, PA: White Hat Communications. linda.grobman@paonline.com.
Nordisk Sosialt Arbeid. Oslo, Norway: Scandinavian University Press. http://www.universitsforlaget.no.
Psychoanalytic Social Work. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press Incorporated. http://www.haworthpress.com/web/PSW/.
Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice. London, United Kingdom: Sage Publications Limited. http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=299.
Research on Social Work Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Periodicals Incorporated. http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=148.
Smith College Studies in Social Work. Northampton, MA: Smith College School for Social Work. sswstudies@smith.edu.
The Social Service Review. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SSR/home.html.
Social Work and Christianity. Botsford, CT: North American Association of Christians in Social Work. http://www.nacsw.org/SWCIndex.html.
Social Work Education. Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02615479.asp.
Subscription Services
Academic Search Elite. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Publishing. 1984- .
A multi-disciplinary database providing full text for more than 2,050 publications, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journal articles in the collection. This database offers information in disciplines such as the social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Full text dates as far back as 1985. An electronic subscription service.
America: History and Life. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 1964- .
Citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations related to the history of the Americas from prehistory to the present. An electronic subscription service.
Book Review Digest. Bronx, N.Y.: H.W. Wilson Co. 1906- .
A bibliographic database of citations to book reviews of current English-language fiction and nonfiction books for children and adults. An abstract of the book and review excerpts are provided. Periodical coverage includes leading magazines from the United States, Canada and Great Britain. An electronic subscription service.
Book Review Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co. 1965- .
Reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media in popular and academic areas. More than 600 publications are indexed, including professional journals, general interest publications, and newspapers. An electronic subscription service.
Books in Print with Reviews. New York, N.Y.: R.R. Bowker. 1998- .
Publication information on more than 9 million in-print, out-of-print, and forthcoming books, as well as audio and videos. May include reviews and synopsis. . An electronic subscription service.
Historical Abstracts. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. 1969- . Citations and abstracts to journal articles and articles in collections, citations to abstracts of dissertations, and citations to books on the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. An electronic subscription service.
InfoTrac Expanded Academic Index. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. 1980- .
News, general-interest, and refereed publications in the social sciences, sciences, and humanities. Contains partial full-text. An electronic subscription service.
InfoTrac OneFILE. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group. 1980- .
News, general-interest, and refereed publications on a wide range of topics including business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, social work, sports, and technology. Partial full-text. An electronic subscription service.
MasterFILE Premier. Ipswich, MA: EBSCO Publishing. 1984- .
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 2,050 general and peer-reviewed journal articles with full text information dating as far back as 1975. In addition there is indexing and abstracts for more than 2,700 titles, 5,000 full text Magill Book Reviews, 362 reference and travel books; full text from 82,968 biographies, 90,915 full text primary source documents, American Heritage Dictionary, 4th Edition and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags. An electronic subscription service.
PsycINFO. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 1887- .
Citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports, as well as citations to dissertations, all in the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from more than 1,300 periodicals written in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through regular updates. An electronic subscription service.
Social Sciences Index. New York: H.W. Wilson Co. 1983- .
A bibliographic database that indexes articles from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes fields in the social sciences such as addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health & medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning & public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies. An electronic subscription service.
Social Work Abstracts. Boston: SilverPlatter International. 1977- .
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers, Inc. Includes more than 45,000 records, spanning 1977 to the present, from social work and related disciplines. An electronic subscription service.
Social Services Abstracts. Bethesda, Md.: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. 1980- .
Abstracts of professional journals, books reviews, and dissertations in areas such as gerontology, community development, crisis intervention, evaluation research, social welfare, policy and planning, poverty and homelessness, professional issues in social work, social development, social work education, support groups and networks, violence and abuse and neglect, and welfare services. Contains partial full-text. An electronic subscription service.
Sociological Abstracts. Bethesda, Md.: Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. 1963- .
Provides access to resources in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,809 serials publications. Also included are abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. Records added since 1973 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Contains partial full-text. An electronic subscription service.
Web of Science. Philadelphia, PA: Institute for Scientific Information.
A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes more than 1,725 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, and it indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Search for cited references or by subject, author, source, affiliation, or address. Includes book reviews. An electronic subscription service.
Web Sites
National Association of Social Workers.
Publications: Books. http://www.naswpress.org/publications/books/books.html.
Council on Social Work Education.
Search: "book reviews". http://www.cswe.org/.
