Social Work Subject Guide

List of Social Work Online Journals

Primary Databases

Thomson Gale Powersearch This Powersearch link searches the following individual databases with one search.
PsycINFO (CSA)
CSA - Social Sciences Subject Area
Sage Fulltext Collection
Blackwell Fulltext Journals
FirstSearch
CQ Researcher
- CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
Opposing Viewpoints
- Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine.
Social Work Abstracts
- Abstracts of the leading publications in the Social Work field published from 1977 to the present.
WorldCat (FirstSearch)
International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- A rich encyclopedia with thousands of full text articles relating to the social and behavioral Sciences.
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- Available through Gale Virtual Reference Library
- Choose Social Science

Secondary Databases

General Reference Center Gold
- Full-text general database through Thomson Gale (1980- ) A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images. Find the latest current events, popular culture, business and industry coverage, the arts and sciences, sports, hobbies, and more.
Health & Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module
- Use this Resource Center to find magazines, journals, newspapers, definitions, directories, and information on: Fitness, Pregnancy, Medicine, Nutrition, Diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, Alcohol and Drug abuse, Prescription Drugs, Herbal remedies, and alternative or complementary treatments, etc. Included are links to diet, cancer, and health assessment sites as well as government databases. Material contained in this Resource Center is intended for informational purposes only.
CPI
- Christian Periodical Index is an index to articles (not full-text) from an evangelical perspective. About 150 journals and popular evangelical magazines are indexed. Some of these titles are available full-text online.
ATLA Religion (FirstSearch)
- A "FirstSearch" database of articles in Religion, Bible, Theology, Philosophy, Ministry, etc., from over 1550 journals, including 60 leading theology journals that provide full-text articles. Produced by the American Theological Library Association. Supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate education and faculty research. Contains thousands of citations from international titles and multi-author works in the field of religion. Includes a full range of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works, and book reviews from three ATLA print indexes: Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Spans over 50 years with selected records going back to 1818.
IDEAL (International Digital Electronic Access Library)
- 174 full text journals through Science Direct.
FACTS.com
- Includes Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, and Reuters On-Line News Service (last 2 weeks).
Michigan eLibrary (MEL)
- Check out the Society & Social Issues pathfinder.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Project Muse (for on-campus users)
- Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics. See Journal Titles list.
eBooks Michigan
- A collection of almost 18,000 eBooks available to Michigan libraries. The state "owns" 1 copy of each book and the checkout time is 6 hours. You must create a free account before accessing the titles.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Includes link to Britannica's Internet Guide to "best web sites."