Youth Work
Overview
Welcome to the Youth Work Subject Pages
Use the tabs to navigate to the different resources we have to support Health. 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 |
|---|---|
| Sociology (general) | HM - Floor 1 |
| Youth and adolescents | HQ793-799 – Floor 1 |
| Youth work | HV1421-1441 – Floor 1 |
| Social Work | HV- Floor 1 |
| Law | K - Floor 2 [green zone] |
| Psychology | BF- Floor 1 |
| Counselling | RC-Floor 2 |
Help
For general enquiries please visit or contact the Library Helpdesk
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
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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.
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British Education Index
Index of 350 British and selected European journals with more than 175,000 references to journal articlesin the fields of education and training, from 1976 to date. This abstract only database is updated quarterly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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Business Source Premier
Contains full text articles from over 2,300 journals covering all business disciplines. Also provides access to market research reports country reports, industry reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
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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.
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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.
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Scopus
Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 14,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. This abstract only database is updated daily. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.
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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 departments
Department for Education
A comprehensive web site, giving on-line access to all recent DfES circulars and information on current educational issues.
The Home Office
The government department for all internal affairs including rights, justice, communities, etc.
Organisations' websites
Demos
Independent think tank on democratic issues
Infed
Informal education and lifelong learning
Innocenti Research Centre
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) works to strengthen the capacity of UNICEF and its cooperating institutions to respond to the evolving needs of children and to develop a new global ethic for children. It promotes the effective implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, in both developing and industrialized countries.
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.
International Youth Foundation
An independent, international, nongovernmental organization dedicated to the positive development of children and youth throughout the world.
NSPCC
Exists to protect the rights of children
National Youth Agency
Aims to advance youth work to promote young people's voice, influence and place in society. Site provides details of conferences, events, publications.
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
Young Minds
National charity committed to improving the mental health of all children and young people.
Youth Work Ireland
One stop site for information about youth work in Ireland, including training, events and publications
Research and Open Access - read more
This service offers free access to approximately 2572, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in a number of subjects and languages.
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.
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.
