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Social Work & Community Welfare Guide


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This is a select listing of information resources in Social Work and Community welfare. For a more comprehensive view of the Library's collection please consult our online catalogue, Tropicat. A more complete general guide to Finding Information and other subject guides are available from InfoHelp. Information relevant to Social Work and Community Welfare is found across a wide range of disciplines including medicine, law sociology, and psychology.

The location prefix R used in the guide designates the Reference Collection. Items are held in both Townsville (TSV) and Cairns (CNS) unless otherwise indicated.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Barker, R.L.  (1999).  The social work dictionary.  (4th ed.). Silver Spring, Md: National Association of Social Workers, NASW Press. R 361.303 BAR 1999 
Edwards, R.L., Hopps, J.G. & Bernard, L.D.  (1995).  Encyclopedia of social work.  (19th ed.).  (3 vol.).  Washington, D.C.: National Association of Social Workers. R 361.003 ENC 1995 
Osuch, M.  (1994).  Families in Australia: a resource guide to the issues of the 90's.  Port Melbourne, Vic.: Thorpe. R 306.85016 OSU 
Vogt, W.  (1993).  Dictionary of statistics and methodology: a nontechnical guide for the social sciences.  Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications. R 300.15195 VOG 
Kuper, A & Kuper, J.  (1996).  The Social Science Encyclopedia.  (2nd ed.).  London: Routledge. R 300.3 SOC 1996 
Knapp, S. D.  (1993).  The contemporary thesaurus of social science terms and synonyms: a guide for natural language computer searching.  Phoenix, Arizona: The Oryx Press. R 025.49300285 KNA
(TSV)

 

Internet Databases

Journal indexing and abstracting services are available via the Internet. Some services also provide the full text of journal articles. These databases may be accessed from off-capmus, by using the Remote Access link on the Databases page.

Direct links to the following electronic database services as well as a number of other services are listed on the Electronic Databases page.

Some databases that you may find particularly useful for Social Work & Community Welfare are:

  • Informit Online - Includes Australian databases such as APAIS, APAIS-Health, AGIS, FAMILY, CINCH, CINCH-Health, Health & Society Database, DRUG, MAIS, Media Scan, and ATSIS databases.
  • Infotrac - Indexes citations, abstracts, and  full text articles via Expanded Academic ASAP and Health Reference Centre.
  • Social Sciences Plus - Indexes and abstracts more than 400 titles, with half of those available in full text via Proquest 5000.
  • Sociological Abstracts  - Covers articles relevant to sociology, social psychology, social work, anthropology, education, health and medicine.
  • ERIC  - Bibliographic database of educational literature.
  • Current Contents - Indexes a large number of international journals, including the disciplines of Social & Behavioral Sciences and Arts & Humanities.
  • PsycArticles – Provides full text articles from 42 journals in the area of psychiatry and psychology.
  • PsycINFO - Major Psychology database which contains citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books and technical reports. Journal coverage is from 1887 to date.
  • FirstSearch - Access a range of databases that cover most disciplines, including Social Sciences Abstracts, PAIS,  CWI: Contemporary Women's Issues, and CINAHL: Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health.
  • Web of Science - Access to Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences citation index, Arts & Humanities citation index and Current Contents.

Electronic Journals

Most full text electronic journals subscribed to by the library are listed in Tropicat. An alphabetical list of Ejournals is also available.

These Ejournals may be accessed from off-campus, by using the Remote Access link on the Databases webapage.

Note that the library has many titles in print; some are available in both print and electronic versions.

Guides

InfoHelp have produced a range of print and online guides to help with Library reserach. Guides are available for general library topics such as searching Tropicat - the Library catalogue, and Finding Journal Articles. Guides are also available for major Internet Databases and specialised topics such as referencing. Please ask at InfoHelp, or go to the Guides webpage.

The School Librarian also maintains links to  Network Resources for Social Work & Community Welfare.
 

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