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Social Work

Indexes & Databases

  • Social Work Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: Coverage from 1977
    Index to articles and dissertations on social work, social welfare, and related fields.

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  • Social Services Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Social Services Abstracts covers journal articles and dissertations in social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development since 1980.

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  • Child Abuse, Child Welfare and Adoption Database
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1965
    Contains 32,000+ bibliographic citations and abstracts of professional literature, primarily of U.S. origin. Publication types include books, journals, government reports, conference papers, state annual reports,curricula, and unpublished papers. Updated annually.

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  • Academic Search Premier
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Provides full text for nearly 4,000 scholarly publications of which 3,100 are peer reviewed. Academic areas of study include: social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

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  • CQ Researcher
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: 1991-present
    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. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.

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  • ERIC - Education (EBSCO)
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1966
    The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides a database of journal and non-journal education literature for K-12 teachers, school administrators, education faculty, school psychologists and education students. ERIC is sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. This database contains more than 1.2 million citations going back to 1966. More than 110,000 full-text non-journal documents (from years 1993-present) are included in the database. The EBSCO version connects to many full-text journal articles through Linked Full Text and Article Linker.

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  • ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to dissertations from 1861 to the present, representing the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Includes the 350-word abstracts written by the author for those dissertations published after 1979. More limited coverage of master's theses from 1962 on (UM theses are not included); citations for those published after 1987 include 150-word abstracts. Database includes full text of dissertations written at the University of Maine after 1996.

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  • Sociological Abstracts
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Coverage: From 1974
    Covers sociology and related disciplines including anthropology, criminology, demography, education, gerontology, mental health, minority studies, political science, public health, social psychology, social work, urban studies, welfare programs, and women's studies. Comprehensive and international in scope. Covers about 2,600 journals in 30 different languages from 55 different countries. Also includes books, conference papers,and doctoral dissertations.

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  • Women's Studies International
    Format: Internet
    Remote Access: Available
    Index to the interdisciplinary field of women's studies, this database covers material in the fields of arts and humanities, business, economics, education, history, international relations, political science, public policy, and sociology. Covers from 1972 forward, and includes journal articles, books, book chapters, and dissertations.

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Pat Prieto
Library Liaison

Phone: 780-5662
E-mail: pprieto@usm.maine.edu
Glickman Library, Portland

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Subject Guides:
Social Work

Course Guides:
SWO 505 - Spring 2008
SWO 201 - Spring 2008
SWO 333 - Fall 2007
SWO 603 - Fall 2007
SWO 250 - Fall 2006
SWO 605 - Fall 2006