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Social Work
Pathfinder
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research guide from the Meyer Library Reference & Government Information
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Find Articles and Basic
Reference Information
Magazine and journal indexes and other reference databases.
To access from off campus, most of the databases listed here will require a Missouri State University Windows Account User ID and Password. More information about off-campus access
Online Indexes to Articles
CINAHL with Full Text (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature). Covers the Allied Health field of social service in health care.
CINAHL with Full Text provides indexing for 2,737 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, including articles published in virtually all English-language nursing journals, publications from the American Nurses' Association and the National League for Nursing, and journals from 17 allied health disciplines. CINAHL with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,150 journals and provides full text for 329 journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. The database also includes information on consumer health, health services librarianship, chiropractic, and health services administration literature. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1982, with approximately 7,000 records added monthly.Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition provides provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals, including nearly 450 peer-reviewed journals focusing on many medical disciplines, with particular strength in nursing and allied health. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. In addition, this database includes the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.LexisNexis Academic. Use the "Legal Research" Academic Search Form area to access legal news, scholarly law review articles, federal and state cases, federal and state codes, and federal regulations such as the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations.
LexisNexis Academic is an interdisciplinary, full-text database of several thousand news, business, legal, and biographical sources. The "news" section includes over 350 newspapers, 300 magazines and journals, 600 newsletters, wire services, transcripts of broadcasts, and nearly 300 college/university papers. "Business" sources include business and financial news, U.S. and international company financial information from government or private sources, market research, industry reports, and actual SEC filings. "Legal" includes primary source materials such as case law, statutes, and regulations, including Shepard's citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789, as well as all federal and state courts. It also includes law review articles from over 500 publications, and patents from 1971 forward. "People" includes biographical information for persons, both alive and deceased. In addition to news, business, legal and biographical information, LexisNexis Academic provides access to medical information, including medical news and medical & health journals. Abstracts from medical journals dating to 1966 are provided in the National Library of Medicine's Medline database. Country information on over 190 countries, with business and political risk analysis, as well as the World Almanac are other selected resources found in this database.PsycINFO
PsycINFO, from the American Psychological Association (APA), contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines, dating as far back as the 1800s. Ninety-seven percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. Subjects include the field of psychology and psychological aspects of related disciplines, such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage, spanning 1887-present, includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals in over 25 language. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987 to the present. Over 55,000 references are added annually through regular updates.Social Work Abstracts
A starting point for literature searches in social work and social welfare, Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage dating back to 1966 for over 450 U.S. and international social work and human services journals. Coverage also includes books and dissertations in social work and related disciplines. Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), this database contains more than 58,000 citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service, and social issues and problems such as homelessness, AIDS, child and family welfare, aging, mental health, civil and legal rights, and substance abuse.SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text (SIFT) offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include criminology & criminal justice, demography, gender studies, social work, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social psychology, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. SIFT contains more than 1,700,000 records, including informative abstracts for more than 740 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as the early 20th century. In addition, this file provides data mined from more than 540 "priority" coverage journals as well as from over 2,800 "selective" coverage journals. SIFT contains full text articles for 330 "core" coverage journals and 90 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text coverage for 566 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
Online Reference Databases (e-Reference Books)
LexisNexis Congressional
(NOTE: As of June 30, 2008, this index will no longer be available. Please go to THOMAS in the database listings or at http://www.thomas.gov/). Lexis-Nexis Congressional contains indexing, with some full text, for congressional materials from 1789 to present, specifically committee hearings and prints, as well as serial set reports and document. Other full-text materials include bills (1989-present), public laws (1988-present), Congressional Record (1985-present), and the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations (1981-present). Congressional actions, including bill tracking (1989-present), floor votes (1988-present), and legislative histories (1969-present) are also included. The database also contains political news from the past 20 years, as well as current hot topics in the political arena.
Print Indexes in the Meyer Library Reference Collection
The title links here will show you the SWAN library catalog record which gives the Meyer Library holdings of the print title.International index: a guide to periodical literature in the social sciences and humanities
MSU Meyer Ref AI3 .R49Social sciences citation index
MSU Meyer Ref Z7161 .S65Social sciences index
MSU Meyer Ref AI3 .S62
General/All Purpose Indexes & Full Text Databases:
The following indexes and databases do not provide the in-depth coverage for studying Social Work as the indexes above. They do cover a variety of subjects and topics across multiple disciplines and provide good general indexing of magazines, newspapers, and core academic journals. In addition they provide full text articles from many of the sources cited.EBSCOhost. Enter EBSCOhost Web and select the appropriate database for your research.
FirstSearch. Either jump to the database you need to search, or under Databases on the menu bar to the left click “List All” and select the appropriate database for your research.
LexisNexis Academic. Full-text newspapers! Also includes business, legal research, and reference areas.
Oxford Reference Online. An e-reference book collection of over 175 of Oxford University Press’s central English and bilingual dictionaries, usage, quotations, and subject reference books.
CQ Researcher, FACTS.com, SIRS Researcher, JSTOR, Project Muse
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Selected Journals in
the Library
The title links will take you to TDNet
which is the Libraries' tool for locating journals regardless of their format—electronic,
print, or microform. Once in TDNet, click on the links to locate journals online,
or click on the check box to locate journals in print and microform. This
is NOT a complete list of all relevant journals in the Missouri State University
Libraries’ collection for this field. If you are looking for a particular
title, then use TDNet
as your starting point.
American Journal of Family Therapy
American Journal of Psychotherapy
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal
Journal of Family Psychotherapy
Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in Social Work
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy
Journal of Social Service Research
Journal of Social Work Education
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Recent Books in the
Meyer Library Collection
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State
Libraries catalog, to view publishing information and complete citation. The
citation record will also display the Library of Congress call number used to
arrange many of the books in this subject area. You can use the call number
to browse the shelf for similar materials.
Fontes, Lisa Aronson. Child
abuse and culture : working with diverse families. New York : Guilford Press,
c2005.
MSU Meyer General HV6626.5 .F66 2005
Lundy, Colleen. Social
work and social justice : a structural approach to practice. Peterborough,
Ont.; Orchard Park, N.Y. : Broadview Press, c2004.
MSU Meyer General HV40 .L94 2004
Making and breaking
children's lives / edited by Craig Newnes and Nick Radcliffe. Ross-on-Wye
: PCCS Books, 2005.
MSU Meyer General RJ506.H9 M35 2005
Mittelstadt, Jennifer. From
welfare to workfare : the unintended consequences of liberal reform, 1945-1965.
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2005.
MSU Meyer General HV699 .M565 2005
Nadasen, Premilla. Welfare
warriors : the welfare rights movement in the United States. New York :
Routledge, 2005.
MSU Meyer General HV97.N34 N33 2005
Payne, Malcolm. Modern
social work theory. Chicago, Ill. : Lyceum Books, Inc., c2005.
MSU Meyer General HV40 .P38 2005
Scannapieco, Maria. Understanding
child maltreatment : an ecological and developmental perspective. Oxford
; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
MSU Meyer General HV6626.5 .S33 2005
Sinclair, Ian. Foster
placements : why they succeed and why they fail. London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
MSU Meyer General HV887.G7 S56 2005
Social work
diagnosis in contemporary practice / edited by Francis J. Turner. New York
: Oxford University Press, 2005.
MSU Meyer General HV40 .S6178 2005
Social work
in context : a reader / edited by Kalyani K. Mehta & Ann Wee. London
; New York : Marshall Cavendish Academic, 2004.
MSU Meyer General HV400.67 .S62 2004
Thoburn, June. Child
welfare services for minority ethnic families : the research reviewed. London
; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
MSU Meyer General HV751.A6 T45 2005
Wise, Judith Bula. Empowerment
practice with families in distress. New York : Columbia University Press,
c2005.
MSU Meyer General HV697 .W57 2005
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Reference Books at
Meyer Library
The title links will take you into SWAN, the Missouri State Libraries
catalog, to view publishing information and obtain the Library of Congress call
number used by Meyer Library to arrange reference materials. Reference materials
are non-circulating items.
Addictions :
a comprehensive guidebook
MSU Meyer Ref RC564 .M327 1999
Author's guide
to social work journals
MSU Meyer Ref HV85 .A93 1997
Baker encyclopedia
of psychology & counseling
MSU Meyer Ref BF31
.B25 1999
Blackwell companion
to social theory
MSU Meyer Ref H61 .B4773 2000
Blackwell encyclopaedia
of social work
MSU Meyer Ref HV12 .B53 2000
Child development:
a practitioner's guide
MSU Meyer Ref HV713 .D395 1999
Encyclopedia
of children and childhood : in history and society Vol. 1-3
MSU Meyer Ref HQ767.84 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia
of community : from the village to the virtual world
MSU Meyer Ref HM756 .E53 2003
Encyclopedia
of drugs, alcohol, & addictive behavior Vol. 1-4
MSU Meyer Ref HV5804 .E53 2001
Encyclopedia
of family life Vol. 1-5
MSU Meyer Ref HQ534 .E53 1999
Encyclopedia
of homelessness Vol. 1-2
MSU Meyer Ref HV4493 .E53 2004
Encyclopedia
of juvenile justice
MSU Meyer Ref HV 9104.E58 2003
Encyclopedia
of marriage and the family Vol. 1-2
MSU Meyer Ref HQ9 .E52 1995
Encyclopedia
of mental health
MSU Meyer Ref RC437 .K34 2001
Encyclopedia
of parenting theory and research
MSU Meyer Ref HQ755.8 .E523 1999
Encyclopedia of psychology Vol.
1-8
MSU Meyer Ref BF31
.E52 2000
Encyclopedia
of social work. National Association of Social Workers. Vol. 1-3
MSU Meyer Ref HV35 .S6
Encyclopedia
of sociology. 2nd Edition
MSU Meyer Ref HM425 .E5 2000. 5 Volumes
Encyclopedia
of women and gender : sex similarities and differences and the impact of
society on gender Vol. 1-2
MSU Meyer Ref HQ1115 .E43 2001
Family law. West
Group, 2000
MSU Meyer Ref KFM7880 .M5 Vol.21-21A
Family's guide
to the individualized family service plan
MSU Meyer Ref HV888.5 .C75 1995
Handbook of adolescent
psychology
MSU Meyer Ref BF724 .H33 2004
Handbook of
family measurement techniques
MSU Meyer Ref HQ728.H2672001
International
encyclopedia of marriage and family
MSU Meyer Ref HQ9 .E52 2003
Macmillan encyclopedia
of death and dying
MSU Meyer Ref HQ1073 .M33 2003
Measures for clinical
practice
MSU Meyer Ref BF176.C66 2000
Social science
encyclopedia
MSU Meyer Ref H41 .S63 1996
Social work
almanac
MSU Meyer Ref HV90 .G53 1995
Social work
dictionary
MSU Meyer Ref HV12 .B37 2003
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Government Sources
& Publications
Key government departments and agencies and publications in
the Meyer Library Government Documents Department.
DocLinks - directory of national, state, local, and international
government web sites from the Reference and Government Department at Missouri
State University Libraries.
http://library.missouristate.edu/reference/govinfo.htm
USA.gov - the United States government's official web portal.
http://www.usa.gov
GPO Access
GPO Access disseminates official information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. It indexes government publications and offers core documents of U.S. democracy (Constitution, Bill of Rights, Gettysburg Address, etc.) along with a variety of other Federal-wide resources.
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Associations
Organizations of experts, policy makers, and researchers.
General Directory
Scholarly Societies Project from the University of Waterloo Library
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/
American Association of State Social Work Boards
http://www.aswb.org/
Clinical Social Work Federation
http://www.cswf.org/
Coalition for Marriage, Family and Couples Education
http://www.smartmarriages.com/
Council on Social Work Education
http://www.cswe.org/
National Association of Social Workers
http://www.naswdc.org/
National Network for Family Resiliency
http://www.nnfr.org/
Society for Social Work Leadership in Health Care
http://www.sswlhc.org/
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Web Sites
Selected web directories to sources and a variety of information
on the Internet.
George Warren Brown School of Social Work List of Social Work Topics
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/websites.html
Missouri Committee for Social Workers
http://pr.mo.gov/socialworkers.asp
Missouri State University School of Social Work
http://www.missouristate.edu/swk/index.html
Social Work Access Network
http://www.sc.edu/swan/
Social Work History
http://www.boisestate.edu/socwork/dhuff/XX.htm
compiled by Crystal
Gale | Meyer Library
Missouri State University Libraries | Updated: December
2005