Social Work Resource Guide

Search for articles, books, course reserves, and more; all in one! Provides access to the majority of the library’s resources from a single entry point. OneSearch including the library's physical items and most of the library’s electronic content.

SEARCH for any social work topic. FIND professional, scholarly social work journal article references.

Provides coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Indexes, abstracts, and some full text covering areas related to criminal justice and criminology.

Is a full text database of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases, GenderWatch is a repository of important historical perspectives on the evolution of the women's movement, men's studies, the transgendered community, and the changes in gender roles over the years. Publications include scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, and NGO, government and special reports.

Provides both scholarly and newsy publications, some in full-text. Easy to understand, easy to limit to scholarly journals (click the box for "peer reviewed"). Sources are focused on the social sciences.

A psychology database with a strong representation of social work journals. Many journals address the issues related to the interdisciplinary topics relevant for social work students.

An education database with a strong representation of educational social work topics.

Database for nursing and allied health, useful for medical social work topics.

Comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

By accessing Google Scholar via the link above, your search results will include “Find it @ Chico” links to articles when full text of the resource is available.