Social Work: 3 Databases to Search

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Social Work Research highlighting 3 databases: Social Work Abstracts, Encyclopedia of Social Work, Google Scholar.

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Social Work3 Databases

To Search

At theRegents Center

Library

Lissa Lord llord@ku.eduSummer 2014

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Finding Articles using

1)Encyclopedia of Social Work

2) Social Work Abstracts

3) Google Scholar

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http://www.lib.ku.edu

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Encyclopedia of social work Electronic equivalent of the 20th Edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work. The 400 articles in this 4-volume set cover all aspects of social work from practice and interventions, social environments, social conditions and challenges, to social policy and history. Each article is written and signed by a top academic or social work practitioner and includes a bibliography for further reading.

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Link

Social Work Abstracts

Using a database to find articles

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Peer Reviewed articles have a lot of charts, graphs and stats

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And References!

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What if we didn’t find full text?

What then?

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Another Database: Google Scholar

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. . . Databases are found at the bottom of the Libraries’ Homepage

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Type inYoursearch

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Let’s try sort by

date hoping for

some recent

articles.

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Link

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Ask Me!

Lissa Lordlissalord@ku.edu

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Special Note to folks in the Literature Review slideshow wanting to return to where you left off: http://www.slideshare.net/lissalord/literature-reviews-36039707