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Welcome to the Houston Cole Library Guide page! The Social Work 332 - Social Policy and Services Libguide page gives you links to key resources to help you start searching for information.

Key Databases

ABI/INFORM Complete
Journals, dissertations, working papers, key newspapers in business, including economics, finance, accounting, management, marketing, and transportation.

A ProQuest database which includes ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. Part of ProQuest Central
Academic OneFile
Extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects

A Gale Cengage database that includes Agriculture Collection, Communication & Mass Media Collection, Educator's Reference Complete, Expanded Academic ASAP, and LegalTrac.
Academic Search Premier
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Academic Search Premier is a giant database that covers more than 8,000 journals, 85% of which are peer-reviewed and over 55% are full text, and full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. It covers a wide variety of disciplines.

An EBSCOhost database provided by the AVL
Family Health Database
Magazines and journals covering consumer health topics, such as sports injuries, women's health, food and nutrition, midwifery, eye care and dentistry.

A ProQuest database | Part of ProQuest Central

Information for Practice
"To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship."

JSTOR
Full text online backfiles of core scholarly journals on many subjects. JSTOR's full-text coverage begins at the first issue of each journal and usually ends within five years of the present.

We subscribe to the following JSTOR collections:
Arts & Sciences I
Arts & Sciences II
Arts & Sciences III
Arts & Sciences IV
Arts & Sciences V
Arts & Sciences VI
Arts & Sciences VII
Arts & Science VIII
Arts & Sciences XI
Biological Sciences
Business I
Business II
Business IV
MasterFILE Premier
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Multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 1,700 general interest periodicals.

An EBSCOhost database provided by the AVL
Opposing Viewpoints
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Social issues.

A Gale Cengage database provided by the AVL
Oxford Journals Online
Journal articles in all subject areas.
Political Science Complete
Extensive full-text collection and index to political science literature. It includes online full-text for 500+ academic journals in political science and related fields and provides cover to cover indexing for a total of 1,000 political science journals and selective coverage for an additional 1,000 journals in related fields. It also includes a collection of some 340 reference and other political science e-books.

An EBSCOhost database
ProQuest Central
The largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities. Search across more than 30 databases at one time. Full-text available.

A ProQuest database.
Sage Journals Online
SAGE Publications include over 447 subscribed journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.
ScienceDirect
A collection of journals and other publications covering life sciences, health sciences, physical sciences and engineering as well as social sciences, humanities and business.

An Elsevier database
Social Services Abstracts
Research in social work, human services, and related areas.

A ProQuest database
Wiley Online Library
Journal articles on a variety of subjects.