Library Class and Subject Guides: Social Work: Get Started

Start Here: Best Library Resources for Social Work

We recommend these search tools, sometimes called databases, to find sources in this subject:

Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts to articles and proceedings about social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations and abstracts "covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education."
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.
Congressional Research Digital Collection This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive full text collection of primary source U.S. congressional committee prints and Congressional Research Service reports covering all aspects of U.S. politics and culture, including economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine.

Encyclopedia of Social Work (ebook)
Online access to short chapters on social work topics and key figures. Continuously updated.
Social Work Speaks, 12 Ed. (ebook) by NASW
Publication Date: 2021
A comprehensive and unabridged collection of policies adopted and revised by the NASW Delegate Assembly.

PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
PolicyMap is a data and mapping tool used by government agencies, universities, healthcare institutions and nonprofits to solve place-based problems.