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Articles

  • Social Services Abstracts
    Provides coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
  • Social Work Abstracts
    Indexes and provides abstracts for articles dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems.
  • ProQuest - Research Library
    Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of subject areas, including social work, business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
  • SCOPUS
    Provides abstracts of and access to articles from 14,200 peer-reviewed titles, including international publishers.  SCOPUS will be most useful to students investigating health care and medical issues in social work.
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Databases

  • Counseling and Therapy in Video
    Provides an online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling—400 hours and more than 330 videos on completion. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.
  • Canadian Points of View Reference Centre
    Designed to assist researchers in understanding the full scope of controversial subjects, this database includes Canadian resources addressing issues of importance to students of social work.  It can be used as a guide to debate, in developing arguments, writing position papers, and for the development of critical thinking skills.
  • Health and Psychosocial Instruments
    Provides access to information on measurement instruments in the health and psychosocial sciences and assists researchers and others to identify measures needed for research studies, grant proposals, client/patient assessment, and program evaluation.
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Encyclopedias

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Statistics and Data

  • E-STAT
    An interactive tool about society and the economy in Canada, E-STAT allows you to track trends in virtually every aspect of the lives of Canadians.
  • Canadian Council on Social Development
    The CCSD research team specializes in social, economic, labour market and demographic issues, and provides statistical and research services to its clients.  Many of its research reports are available online.  Its "Stats & Facts" page contains tables of some of the more frequently requested information.
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Web Sites

  • Canadian Social Research Links
    Canadian Social Research Links is a virtual resource centre for Canadian social program information.
  • Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
    The mandate of the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse is to provide national leadership and evidence-informed analysis and advice to mobilize collaborative efforts to reduce the alohol- and other drug-related harms.
  • National Clearinghouse on Family Violence
    The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence is Canada's resource centre for information on violence within relationships of kinship, intimacy, dependency or trust.
  • Information for Practice
    The mission of Information for Practice is to help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.
  • Canadian Association of Social Workers
    The Canadian Association of Social Workers represents Canadian professional social workers.
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