Welcome to the A.C. Clark Library Research Guide for Social Work. It will provide access to a variety of library and information resources relevant to your course of study.
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Social Work Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts are the two major databases that contain articles from Social Work Journals. Typically, Social Work Abstracts will have fewer results than Social Services Abstracts, and they will have different articles. Consider searching both of them.
Social Work is a field of study that ties into and connects well with many other fields. For example, if you are interested in school social work, searching Education databases in addition to Social Work databases might be useful. Psychology, Allied Health, Criminal Justice, and Sociology are only a few of the other areas you might be interested in searching.
Sometimes statistical resources can help you frame an argument by providing context in numbers. Below are a few of the many statistical resources available to you.
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