SOCIAL WORK DATABASES

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Academic Search Complete - [Contents: abstracts & full text | Coverage: 1965 - Present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Ebscohost] 
This database is designed specifically for academic institutions. It is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 5,500 scholarly periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 9,500 journals in the collection.

Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1960-present | Updates: monthly | Provider: AARP] 
This database covers all aspects of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. This database also contains approximately 100,000 records, including abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies.

 AidsLine - [Contents: abstracts | Coverage: 1973-present | Updates: regularly | Provider: National Library of Medicine] 
This database is a Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface.

Article 1st - [Contents: citations & abstracts | Coverage: 1990 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: OCLC] 
This is an index of articles from the contents page of journals. It contains over 16,000 sources and over 23 million records covering business, humanities, medicine, popular culture, science, social science, and technology subjects.

CQ Researcher - [Contents: full text & citations | Coverage: 1991 - present | Updates: weekly | Provider: Congressional Quarterley]  

This database explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.


CSPV Violence Evaluation Instruments Database (VioEval)  - Provided by the University of Colorado at Boulder's Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence.

Encyclopedia of Social Work - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: early history - present | Updates: regularly | Provider: Amigos]
This encyclopedia contains over 400 entries and 200 biographies of key figures in social work history. It includes demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster.
Part of the Oxford Digital Reference Shelf.

  
Google Scholar - [Contents: citations & full text | Coverage: varies | Updates: regularly | Provider: Google] 
Google Scholar allows users to search across multiply resources in one search engine. It contains scholarly information from books, journals, reviewed papers, scholarly organizations and repositories, academic publishers and much more. Google scholar automatically links to full-text articles that are in the OLLU library collection.

ISI Web of Knowledge[Contents:index, citations, some full-text | Coverage: 1950 - Present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This research platform searches Social Science Citation Index and Medline database simultaneously.

Social Science Citation Index - [Contents: index & citations | Coverage: 1980 - present | Updates: daily | Provider: Thomson Reuters] 
This multidisciplinary database indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social science disciplines. Some of the areas covered include psychology and psychiatry, sociology, social work and public health, law, history, philosophy and polital science.

SocINDEX with Full-Text - [Contents: full-text | Coverage: 1908 - current | Updates: varies | Provider: Ebscohost]
This database contains full-text articles, books, author profiles, and conference papers about sociology. Topics include abortion, criminology, demography, gender studies, political sociology, social development, and more.
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