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Social work and advice studiesFrom $1Table of contentsFinding resourcesArticlesThe Library has a range of online services that will enable you to locate journals, reports and newspaper articles on a chosen topic. A full list is available on our e-resources page Particularly relevant services for your subject include: Social Care OnlineThe UKs most extensive databases of social care information produced by the Social Care Institute for Excellence Science Direct. A database containing many full text science articles including health Swetswise A database containing full text articles PsycARTICLES Covers psychology and the psychological aspects of related disciplines CINAHL This database provides indexing for 2,587 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health Google Scholar indexes the full text of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. Because most of Google Scholar's search results link directly to commercial journal articles, you may find that you will only be able to access a brief summary of the articles topics. If you cannot access the article check to see if the University has a subscription to the journal by going to our e journals listing Web of Knowledge An index to articles covering all disciplines. Westlaw. A general legal database including, case law, legislation, also includes the Legal Journals Index (LJI), including some full text journals. Updated daily. Lexis Nexis includes the full text of a variety of useful resources such as newspapers (broadsheet, regional and tabloid). Subject area coverage includes: legal information, medical information, business information, media information, computing information and many others. Zetoc provides electronic table of contents access to thousands of journals held by the British Library, covering 15 million article and conference records. The database covers the years from 1993 to date and is updated daily. There is also a useful alerting service
Electronic journals by titleIf you know the title of a journal or magazine use the electronic journals list to find out if you can view the full text of the journal online. Here is a list of recommended titles in your area. Print journalsWhile there is a good range of electronic journals in your area, do not forget our printed journals. It may well be that there is only a printed copy available to you. For instance in Advice Studies: The Adviser LASA Review Quarterly Account Welfare Rights Bulletin In Social Work: Adoption Today Drug and Alcohol Review To check if we have a printed use the library catalogue. Electronic booksYou can access electronic books using the e-books link from the library web pages. You will find e-books by using the resources listed below: Printed booksYou can use the library catalogue to search for specific titles or books by an author. You can also search by author, title or general keywords. There is a link to the library catalogue and more information about borrowing books and using other library services at Library You can look for books on the shelves in your subject area. Some useful shelf numbers are listed below. Useful websitesReferencing and bibliographiesRefZone - Helping you to Reference RefWorksRefWorks is an online bibliographic management tool that helps you save references and create bibliographies. There is an online tutorial within the RefWorks program. Subject GatewaysFor quality assured websites try the following: Usernames and passwordsMost online resources use your University Username and Password to authorise access. On campus you will be recognised automatically when you logon to a PC. You should only be asked to login when you are off campus. To do this you will need the details of your student Username and Password. Your username is shown on your student card. Note: When using some online resources, you may be asked to enter the details of your University ATHENS account - this is the same username and password as your University logon details above. Off-campus students and distance learnersThe library provides a range of services for off-campus users including UK Postal Loans of Library Books, the Document Delivery Service and access to other UK Libraries: Subject help and adviceFor subject resource support, finding information, advice on using the online resources, reference styles and queries regarding the Library and IT services, please contact your Subject Librarian:
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