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Article Indexes
Academic Search Premier
PsycARTICLES
PsycINFO
Social Work Abstracts
ERIC
Global Issues in Context
Native Health Database
LexisNexis Academic
Omnifile Fulltext Select (EBSCOhost)
Reference
Dictionary of the Social Sciences
A Dictionary of Law
Encyclopaedia Britannica
FASTSTATS (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
U.S. Census 2000 State & County Statistical QuickFacts
Style Guides
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association/ American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association (APA)
The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL)
Mobile Apps & Websites
Useful Web Sites
AARP Research Center
Administration for Children and Families (Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Administration on Aging
Aging Integrated Database
Agingstats.gov
Childinfo.org (UNICEF)
Children's Defense Fund
Childstats.gov
Child Trends DataBank
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation - Information on public policy related to health
MLA Language Map
National Council on Family Relations
National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
National Juvenile Court Data Archive
Population Reference Bureau
SWAN: Social Work Access Network
Statistics
New Books
Group Work with Populations at Risk/ Geoffrey L. Greif
Social Policy and Social Change: Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice/ Jillian Jimenez
Social Work and Family Violence: Theories, Assessment, and Intervention/ Joan C. McClennen
eBooks from EBSCOhost
Social Work in Health Settings: Practice in Context/ T. S. Kerson & J. L. M. McCoyd
School Social Work: an Evidence-informed Framework for Practice/ M. S. Kelly
World of Child Labor: an Historical and Regional Survey/ H. D. Hindman
Researching Public Policy
1. Identify the issue. For example, housing for senior citizens.
2. Use reference sources and government Web sites to identify the government agencies involved, laws, regulations, and so on.
Reference Books
Encyclopedia of Aging (R 305.26 En1)
Encyclopedia of Social Work (R 360 En1)
Social Work Almanac (R 361.3 G43)
Social Work Dictionary (R 361.3 B24s4)
United States Government Manual (R 353 Un3)
Web Sites
USA.gov
Health & Human Services
Laws & Regulations
Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Statistics
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
3. Use names of laws, regulations, and keywords from issues to search for books and articles in the Library Catalog, Social Work Abstracts, and LexisNexis Academic.