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• Social Work Abstracts
  Summarizes articles in 450+ journals in all areas of social work, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues, and social problems. 1966-current.
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  Subjects:

  • Alcohol Abuse
  • Crime
  • Gerontology
  • Psychology
  • Public Health
  • Social Issues
  • Social Sciences
  • Sociology
  • Welfare

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• Social Services Abstracts
  Summaries of current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. 1980-current.
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  Summarizes over 1,400 journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews. Topics include:

  • Community and mental health services
  • Crisis intervention
  • The family and social welfare
  • Gerontology
  • Poverty and homelessness
  • Professional issues in social work
  • Social and health policy
  • Social services in addiction
  • Social work education
  • Social work practice
  • Support groups/networks
  • Violence, abuse, neglect
  • Welfare services

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• PsycINFO
  Scholarly articles in psychology, plus medicine, psychiatry, education, social work, criminology, social science, business, & organizational behavior. Search Tips! 1872-present.
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  Covers the academic, research and practice literature -- including journal articles, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports -- from over 45 countries in more than 30 languages. From the American Psychological Association.

  Subjects include:

  • Business (advertising & marketing)
  • Communication Sciences
  • Education
  • Medicine
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Sociology

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• Scopus
  Scholarly journal articles with a heavy emphasis on science topics. A great database for high quality scholarly articles on any topic. International scope. Excellent for citation searching. 1996-present for citation searching; 1966 to present for general searching.
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  Because UConn holds a license to Beilstein CrossFire, users can see summaries of compounds and reaction information in Scopus for any article that is also indexed in Beilstein Crossfire.

  Using the Papers application from Mekentosj to search Scopus? Papers should prompt you for the Scopus ID (36298) when you do a Scopus search. If it doesn't, or if you need to change it, it go to Preferences, Plugins, Search Engines. Also, Papers can also be configured to use our off campus authentication system (EZproxy), so you might want to add http://ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/login?url=%@ in the "library proxy" box under "Preferences, Sources".

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• Sociological Abstracts
  Scholarly journal articles about sociology and other social and behavioral sciences. Includes culture & social structure; economic development; evaluation research; family & social welfare; management and complex organizations; policy planning. 1963-present.
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  Some cited references included. Major areas of coverage include:

  • Culture and social structure
  • Demography and human biology
  • Economic development
  • Environmental interactions
  • Evaluation research
  • Family and social welfare
  • Health and medicine and law
  • History and theory of sociology
  • Management and complex organizations
  • Mass phenomena and political interactions
  • Methodology and research technology
  • Policy, planning, forecast and speculation
  • Radical sociology
  • Religion and science
  • Rural and urban sociology
  • Social development
  • Social differentiation
  • Social psychology and group interaction
  • Sociology of the arts, business, education
  • Studies in violence and power
  • Substance abuse and addiction
  • Welfare services
  • Women's studies

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