Social Work

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The library will be closed:

  • December 19, 2025 - January 4, 2026
  • Monday, January 19, 2026
  • Monday, February 16, 2026
  • Friday, March 6, 2026
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  • Monday, May 25, 2026
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Key Databases


Database providing bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development from thousands of serial publications with links to full text.


Includes Research Library for social sciences as well as the premium collection.


This database covers a broad range of subjects including social behavior, human tendencies, interaction, relationships, community development, social and cultural structure and more.

Websites

Books: 

  •  (2003) by Lindsay Prior
  •  (2019) by Leslie D. Rosenstein
  •  (2016) by Elia Shabani Mligo
  •  (2016) by T. Rajaretnam

Other Resources


Examines the ethical and values issues that impact and are interwoven with social work practice, research, and theory development. This journal addresses ethical and value issues that encompass the full range of social problems and issues that social workers encounter.


Our largest database for the sciences and social sciences, including sociology, providing full text access to scholarly journals often unavailable on other databases.

Although ERIC is mainly an education database, it will also have topics related to social work


Focuses on behavioral and social sciences

Search criminal justice journals from across the world covering law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.

Online Encyclopedias


Continuously updated resource containing hundreds of articles and biographies that offer overviews of key elements in social work study. Monthly additions.

Streaming Video


Over 400 videos covering all aspects of social work.

Citing Sources

APA Style Guide
Zotero
A citation generator and management tool, Zotero can help you keep all of your citation information together and generate a bibliography for you.

Books

Interlibrary Borrowing
eBook Resources
Open Education Resources

Updated 2/13/26