LibGuides: Introduction to Social Work Research: Articles

Where to find scholarly articles for your discipline

Databases
Library Articles & More Search

Subject-Specific Databases

PsycINFO (Ebsco)
Psychology-specific database and very important for social work research. Use this to find mental and behavioral health literature and addiction-related literature.
Includes abstracts from Psychological Abstracts back to 1927, Psychological Bulletin from 1921-1926, and all APA journals and the American Journal of Psychology back to their first issues. Corresponds in part to the print index Psychological Abstracts.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Sociology-specific database, also very helpful for social work research. This database focuses on literature from a community-level perspective. Use this for literature on gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, and religion.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing & Allied Health) Plus with Full Text
Nursing database that will help you find academic literature related to health-specific problems and outcomes.
Embase
Unlimited users.
Embase provides coverage of the biomedical literature, with over 31 million records from over 8,500 currently published journals, including over 7 million records and more than 3,000 journals that are not covered by MEDLINE. Offers extensive coverage of searchable conference abstracts dating back to 2009. It currently indexes over 6,000 conferences covering ~350,000 conference abstracts each year. Embase uses Emtree, the Elsevier Life Science thesaurus: a hierarchically structured, controlled vocabulary for biomedicine and the related life sciences. It includes a range of terms for drugs, diseases, medical devices and essential life science concepts
PubMed
Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. Provides access to over 36 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, and other related databases. Links to the full text articles are provided when available, subject to UT subscription status.

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LGBTQ+ Life
Database focusing on academic literature related to sexual and gender minorities.

Search all of the these databases at the same time. Because they are all hosted on the EBSCO platform, you can open one of the databases, click Choose Databases, and check the other databases you want to include in your search.

Multi-disciplinary databases

Academic Search Complete
Web of Science
Unlimited users.
Updated weekly. The Web of Science Core Collection is a group of databases (Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-present; Social Sciences Citation Index, 1900-present; Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-present) that together cover more than 21,000 journals across all disciplines. The Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present) tracks thousands of additional journals that are being considered for inclusion in the main citation indexes. Other files track references from conference proceedings (1990-present) and citations to books (2005-present).

The Web of Science platform currently also provides temporary access to several databases that are not part of the Core Collection, including Biosis Citation Index, Data Citation Index, and Zoological Record.

Articles & More

The library website's Articles & More search allows you to limit your search by peer review. Type in your search terms to the box below, then in the left hand column of the results page, click Peer Review under Refine Your Search.

Where's the Article?

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Troubleshooting Electronic Resources

Electronic Resources: Troubleshooting
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