Social Work Research Guide

Full-text of independent, evidence-based resources including systematic reviews, clinical trials, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and more. Content is drawn from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Clinical Answers, and curated special collections on key healthcare topics.

Search all 49 EBSCO databases licensed by the library at once or select particular databases to include in a search.

Detailed evaluations of over 3,000 modern testing instruments used in psychology, education, business, and leadership. This resource includes all past editions of the Mental Measurements Yearbook dating back to 1938, as well as Tests in Print, a comprehensive index of commercially available English-language tests currently in print. Compiled and maintained by the Buros Institute of Mental Measurements.

Full-text psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association and its affiliates, available from their original publication dates (as early as 1894) to the present.

Full text of the DSM-5, all prior editions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, as well as journals, textbooks, clinical practice guidelines, self-assessment tools, and medication information materials published by the American Psychiatric Association.

Comprehensive index of international publications in psychology and related fields—including psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work—covering journal articles, book chapters, books, reports, theses, and dissertations from 1967 to the present. Compiled by the American Psychological Association.

Includes MEDLINE, a leading database of scholarly journal articles in the life sciences, with a strong focus on biomedicine. The resource also features additional life science journals and online books, covering disciplines such as behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering.

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Index covering over 1,300 serial publications, including abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Focus areas include social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development. Coverage spans from 1979 to the present.

Index of international journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers, and working papers in sociology and related fields within the social and behavioral sciences. Includes content from the Social Services Abstracts database. Coverage spans from 1952 to the present.

Comprehensive research platform that indexes high-quality, peer-reviewed journals across disciplines including science, social science, arts, and humanities. It offers powerful tools for citation analysis and enables users to track scholarly references from 1900 to the present.

Index to dissertations and theses from over 3,000 institutions in 88 countries. Full text coverage spans from 1743-present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637. Note: Dissertations & Theses Global may also be searched and accessed via Web of Science, as well as OneSearch.

Over 700 streaming videos—including real therapy sessions, professional training footage, and reenactments—led by renowned counseling experts. Many include teaching and discussion guides, making them ideal for studying social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.

A streaming collection of classic and contemporary ethnographies, documentaries, and short films from every continent—alongside full-text transcripts, interviews, field notes, and study guides exploring human culture and behavior. Topics include cultural transformation, kinship and family structures, economic systems and globalization, gender and sexuality, religion and ritual, and language and communication. Note: The library only owns the videos in volume I of the collection.