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=Social Work Resource Center=


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General Databases:
Academic Search Complete - Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study.

Social Work Databases:
Alexander Street Press - Collection of videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning.

CINAHL Plus with Full Text - Index and abstracts to the literature of nursing and allied health. For assistance in searching, review this online tutorial.

Counseling and Therapy in Video - //(Now known as Alexander Street Press)// Online collection of videos. Coverage includes social work, psychotherapy, and psychiatric counseling. For assistance, view this online tutorial.

Films on Demand - Unlimited access to more than 12,000 videos and 100,000 segments for topics in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics and Health & Medicine to name a few. The collections are dynamic, so any new videos acquired are added to the resource automatically. Public performance rights are also included.

MEDLINE with full text (EBSCO) - A comprehensive index for medical journals and provides full text for more than 1,370 journals.

PsycINFO - Index and abstracts of articles, books, chapters, dissertations, and reports in psychology.

Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection - Index, abstracts, and full text covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods.

Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI) - Index, abstracts, and cited references for articles in the social sciences.

Social Work Abstracts - The database provides indexing and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.

SocINDEX with Full Text - Comprehensive sociology research database. Contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

Understanding Social Work Research:
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 * [|How databases and Internet search engines are different]
 * Peer Review in 5 Minutes (video)
 * Types of Periodicals (scholarly publications vs. professional/trade publications)
 * How to read a Research article

Creating Citations:

 * Book: Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6th ed., 2010)
 * APA Style Guide to Electronic Resources (ebook)
 * APA Formatting and Style Guide from OWL at Purdue (has been updated to APA 6th ed.)
 * Citation generator:
 * Noodle Tools: click "Noodle Bib Express" for free access (has been updated to APA 6th ed.)
 * Remember: You are responsible for your citations. Online tools are designed to assist you, but are machine-generated. Double-check the formatting of your sources using an authoritative online or print manual.

Internet Resources:
Before you cite that website, does it pass the **CRAP Test**?

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