Social Work
Overview
Welcome to the Social Work Subject Pages
Use the tabs to navigate to the different resources we have to support Social Work. Alternatively, there is a 1-page guide available which summarises some of this information to get you started.
You may also find it useful to browse the subject pages for:
· Some useful shelfmarks
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Subject |
Shelfmark |
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| Sociology (general) | HM - Floor 1 |
| Social work | HV- Floor 1 |
| Law | K - Floor 2 [green zone] |
| Psychology | BF- Floor 1 |
| Counselling | RC-Floor 2 |
Help
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For more detailed subject enquiries please contact James
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James Langridge
Subject Liaison Librarian
School of Health Sciences and Social Care
Tel: +44(0)1895 266270
Email James
Databases
For a general search across multiple databases, search Summon.
Individual databases offer a more detailed comprehensive search. Those most relevant to your subject area have been selected below. For guidance on more specific types of information, such as Market Research, Raw Data, Standards and Patents, please see the links on our Research page.
Access to these e-resources is restricted to the students and staff of Brunel University for licensing and technical reasons. Some licence agreements may exclude access to databases and their contents from certain countries. It is your responsibility to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant licence agreements - for more information see the copyright web page on databases - contact copyright@brunel.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Academic Search Complete
Contains full text articles from over 5,000 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work.
Alternative link (if above doesn't work)
IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, from 1951 to date on the new ProQuest integrated platform (this has the option to search other databases, too). Coverage includes Anthropology, Sociology, Economics and Politics. Some linked full text is available. Updated weekly.
Alternative link (if above doesn't work)
OECD Health Data
Offers comparable statistics on health and health care systems for 30 OECD countries, with some time series going back to 1960
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an etymological dictionary which is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive record of the English language, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations. OED Online gives access to latest text of the full Oxford English Dictionary, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED and enable users new ways to explore the English language:
Search for new words by year, decade, or any date range.
Set language in context: search by place, language type, and date to discover the impact of world events.
OED Online is revised and updated at regular intervals and covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of use, from formal to slang.
PsycInfo
Psychology and related topics; abstracts of articles from over 1400 journals, dissertations and books, from 1872 to date. Over 50,000 references are added annually. Popular literature is excluded. This abstract only database is updated monthly. Use Article Linker to check for full text online sources.
Alternative link (if above doesn't work)
Scopus
Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 20,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. This abstract only database is updated daily. Use Article Linker (AL - link to full text) to check for full text online sources.
Alternative link (if above doesn't work)
Web Resources
General Guidance - read more
General guidance
Internet Social Worker
To get the best out of the web. These are from a national series of tutorials written by qualified tutors, lecturers and librarians from across the UK. It is part of the Intute: Virtual Training Suite
Internet detective
Is a website trustworthy? This is a tutorial aimed at helping you evaluate the quality of web sites.
Gateways
Social Care Online
A free online resource owned and managed by the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). It provides a single point of access to the UK's most extensive range of social care knowledge.
General websites
SWAP (Social Policy and Social Work)
SWAP is the Social Policy and Social Work subject centre with the Higher Education Academy: the UK-wide academy with the main aim of promoting high quality learning, teaching and assessment in our subject areas.
Community Care
General website aimed at all in social care, provided by publishers of the journal Community Care
Organisational and Government - read more
Government information
Department of Health
The Department of Health web site, this contains information about the department and also provides access to health and social care policy, guidance and publications for NHS and social care professionals
Department of Work and Pensions
The Department is responsible for delivering support and advice through a modern network of services to people of working age, employers, pensioners, families and children and disabled people.
Organisations' websites
British Association of Social Workers
Contains information for its members including BASW's code of ethics. Also provides comprehensive list of publications produced by the society including information on the four journals they produce
The independent regulator of all health and social care services in England. The Commission's role is to make sure that care provided by hospitals, dentists, ambulances, care homes and services in people’s own homes and elsewhere meets government standards of quality and safety.
CASE
The Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion
Centre for Housing Policy
"The Centre for Housing Policy is part of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work and the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (IRISS) within the University of York. The Centre is a member of the UK Housing Studies Association and the European Network of Housing Research."
Child and adolescent mental health
The CAMH website provides information on mental health problems particularly affecting children and adolescents, including ADHD, autism, bullying, depression, eating disorders, OCD, psychosis, and substance abuse.
Drugscope
DrugScope is the UK's leading independent centre of expertise on drugs. The website includes details of their library, and access to DrugData, the library database.
General Social Care Council
General Social Care Council is the social care workforce regulator. It will register social care workers and regulate their conduct and training.
Institute for Public Policy Research
IPPR, the Institute for Public Policy Research, is the UK’s leading progressive thinktank. It produces research and policy ideas for a fair, democratic and sustainable world.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Research in the whole area of social policy
NCVO
Includes links to more than five hundred sites in Links to the Voluntary Sector Online
NSPCC
Exists to protect the rights of children
Social Care Institute for Excellence
This has taken over much of the work previously carried out by the National Institute for Social Work. SCIE promotes knowledge about good practice in the Social Work sector. Using knowledge gathered from diverse sources and a broad range of people and organisations, it develops resources to support service users and those working in social care
Research and Open Access - read more
Research Register for Social Care
The RRSC will record social care research that has been subject to independent ethical and scientific review. This will include ongoing and completed research, and research carried out by students and practitioners.
Economic and Social Research Council
T he UK's leading research funding and training agency addressing economic and social concerns.
RDInfo
A digest of health-related research funding and training opportunities.
Using Other Libraries
When conducting specialist research, Brunel Library may not always stock everything you need. If this happens, you have a number of options:
- Join SCONUL. This scheme will give you access to print resources in other university libraries in the UK and Ireland. More information…
- Find out which university has the book you need. More information…
- Apply for an InterLibrary Loan. More information…
Before you visit another library
If you do plan to visit another library, please check first of all that we do not have the item you need. Advice on using the library can be found on our Finding Resources page. Alternatively, please ask a member of staff at the Helpdesk or contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School.
Remember, if the item you need is on a reading list, we will make every effort to purchase this for the Library, so please let us know the details.
Where there are specific libraries of interest for your subject, these will be listed below.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Access: Member of SCONUL Access Scheme. Please note that LSE does not allow full time PG students to borrow.
Address: 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2HD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7229
Research
As well as the resources listed under the Databases and Web Resources tabs of this subject page, we have a number of other resources that could be of relevance to your research, such as:
Additionally, you may wish to refer our general Research page which comprehensively lists all of our Research Resources.
If you need help with using any of these resources, please contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School, details of which can be found from the Overview tab.
