LibGuides: Social Work and Social Care: Key Resources

Social Work Journals

Social Work and Social Care Journal Collection
A collection of key social work journals covering issues including social work practice and policy, mental health, adult and child social care, family, health and more

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
Subjects: Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering ; Life and Health Sciences ; Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics ; Biological, Agricultural; Environmental Sciences.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Access to the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

ASSIA Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts This link opens in a new window
An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. Over 2.5 million bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters from 1951.

PsycArticles This link opens in a new window
Access to full-text psychology publications covering the disciplines of Human Physiology, Personality Psychology, Social Psychology, Educational Psychology, and more.
PsycINFO This link opens in a new window
Access to international literature in psychology and related disciplines.

Sage Research Methods Online This link opens in a new window
A research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.
Emerald Social Sciences ebook Series Collection This link opens in a new window
Access to titles from 1999 onwards from Emerald in the Social Sciences.
Sage Knowledge ebook collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to Sage Publishing's social science ebook platform.

Department of Health & Social Care This link opens in a new window
Find guidance and regulation information for Health and Social Care on the UK government department's website.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) This link opens in a new window
Clinical guidance, systematic reviews, evidence and research recommendations relating to health, drugs and technologies, public health, social care and healthcare management and commissioning
Skills for Care This link opens in a new window
The employer-led workforce development body for adult social care in England.

UK Government Publications Search This link opens in a new window
Search the UK central government's publications, including command papers, act papers, policies and guidance.
Legislation.gov.uk This link opens in a new window
A collection of most of the UK's legislation with accompanying explanatory documents, delivered by The National Archives.
Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Database of legal materials from the UK, EU, US and other common law jurisdictions. Contains full-text case law and legislation, journal articles and law journals.
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Nexis This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive newspaper database, updated daily, providing full text access to all UK national newspapers, plus regional newspapers, international news providers and a number of trade journals and magazines.