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COURSE RELATED RESEARCH
INSTRUCTION
Course Name: SWK260 Introduction to Social
Welfare
Course Instructor: Margaret Ballantine
Session Librarian: Holly
Heller-Ross
Session Date: September 06, 2007
Feinberg Library has great resources for Social Work in reference books,
circulating books and journal articles.
The Social
Work Research Guide provides book and journal suggestions, and this
course-related research guide
provides some specifics based on your assignment for SWK260.
Finding Books:
Search the Feinberg Library Catalog for the terms: social welfare or
social services or social work
Then either scan the titles, as in the display below, or add additional
specific terms to your search.
Use the advanced searching option in the catalog to combine terms
with Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT
to get more specific results.
Searching for social welfare or social work and child abuse gets
you more specific book resources as in the display below.
Finding Articles:
You can locate articles by "browsing the stacks" and reading journal
tables of contents, by following citations in book or web bibliographies,
or by searching in online research databases.
Feinberg
Library Journal Subscriptions
These journals are located on the library's third floor.
Affilia
British Journal of Social Work
Families in Society
International Social Work
Journal of Social Service Research
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
NASW News
Policy & Practice of Public Human Services
Social Forces
Social Service Review
Social Work
Search for articles online as you searched for books by combining
the specific concepts you are looking for with Boolean articles.
Try these databases to start:
Social Sciences Abstracts: Indexes major social science journals from 1983 to
present.
Sociological Abstracts: Indexes major social science journals from 1983 to
present.
Many journals, including Social Work, Child and Adolescent
Social Work Journal, Health and Social Work, Journal of Multicultural
Social Work and Social Work Research are also available
full-text in the databases. You can
search by subject OR look through the tables of contents for these journals.
Here are the results of this search, lets review what you
see:
There were 19 articles resulting
The first 2 are from the journal Social Work
The first is 4 pages long, the second is 12 pages long
Searching Social Services Abstracts is also highly recommended
for your class!
This page created by: Holly Heller-Ross, MLS
Email: holly.hellerross@plattsburgh.edu
Last
Updated: September 06, 2007 | 
