Librarian
Nathan Fralick (Edinboro)
he/him/his
Contact:
200 Tartan Road
Edinboro, PA 16444
Edinboro, PA 16444
814-732-1542
Subjects: Social Work & Sociology
Welcome!
Welcome to the Social Work & Sociology Guide. This guide will introduce you to resources that may help you with your assignments and projects. If you need assistance, please visit the Help page.
Find Articles: First Options
- SocINDEX w/ Full Text This link opens in a new window The world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. This database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers.
- OneSearch This link opens in a new window OneSearch combines most of the library's resources into a single database. Rather than search databases separately, you can do just "one search." OneSearch includes articles, ebooks and books, and more.
Find Articles: More Options
- Education Source This link opens in a new window The collection provides indexing and abstracts for more than 2,850 academic periodicals and includes full text for more than 1,800 journals, 550 books and monographs, conference papers, and citations for over 4 million articles.
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new window This renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Use this link to show PennWest full text in your Google Scholar results.
- JSTOR Collections This link opens in a new window A full-text archive of over 1,700 of the best scholarly journals in social sciences, humanities, and life sciences disciplines. Includes access to ARTStor and JSTOR Primary Sources
- MEDLINE Complete This link opens in a new window Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more, dating back to 1857 with full-text back to 1865. MEDLINE Complete is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for medical journals, providing full text for over 1,800 journals.
- Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Westlaw is a legal, news, and business information database. Legal resources include primary sources (statutes, codes, case law) and secondary sources (legal encyclopedias and journals).
Encyclopedias, etc.
- Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th ed. Covers key topics and biographies in the field of Social Work. (NASW and Oxford U Press, 2008)
- Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window Browse research monographs in the Sage Books Collection, Social and Behavioral Sciences reference texts in the Sage Reference Collection, and explore CQ Navigator, the essential social sciences literature review tool. Additional content from CQ Press is also available.
- Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia Userful for getting an introduction to a topic. It can be a good first stop when researching--but should not be your last (or only) stop.
Writing a Literature Review
- Learn How to Write a Review of Literature A concise introduction to writing a review of literature. From the Writing Center at the Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Literature Reviews Explains literature reviews and offers help on how to prepare one in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. From the Writing Lab at the Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
- Writing the Literature Review A collection of Web resources providing guides and sample literature reviews. From SUNY Empire State College.
