Social Work
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Databases
Academic OneFile
This database provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Includes extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
The world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline, full-text database designed specifically for academic institutions. Contains full text for more than 4,500 peer-reviewed publications, in nearly all academic areas of study.
Ageline
Includes information on aging and middle age from an interdisciplinary perspective; includes citations to articles, books, and government documents. Some full text articles available.
Article 1st
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of more than 16,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business and the humanities and popular culture. Coverage is from 1990 to the present.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video provides the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling with 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. This current release includes 276 videos totaling roughly 300 hours. Click here for a video tutorial.
Google Scholar
Use this link to have Google Scholar recognize you as a George Fox user, and link you to our full text subscriptions. Google Scholar indexes a broad array of scholarly literature.
Oxford Journals
Contains several academic and research journals that are specific to social work and societal issues.
Psychology and Behavior Science Collection
This is a comprehensive database from EBSCO covering information concerning topics in emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational & experimental methods. This is the world's largest full text psychology database offering full text coverage for nearly 600 journals. Over 200 titles fall under the subject of social work.
Indexes 640 journals in the fields of sociology and social work, with full text for more than 250 of them.
Ebooks
Best way to find ebooks
Search the GFU library catalog FoxTrax to find ebooks by subject, title, author or keyword.
- Go to Advanced Search
- Enter your search term (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
- Under the limiter “Material Type” select “EBOOKS”
- Submit your search
Foxtrax subject searches for ebooks about:
Largest GFU ebook collections
MyiLibrary
MyiLibrary provides access to ebooks from major academic publishers.
***Mac users defer to the Safari browser until further notice.
NetLibrary
Our largest collection of ebooks with over 4600 titles. Features:
- Links from the table of contents
- An embedded dictionary
- Full-text searching
- Page-by-page or chapter-by-chapter access
***Mac users defer to the Safari browser
Print books
Finding print books
Search Foxtrax for books at GFU libraries.
You can search by title, author, or subject and discover:
- which of our libraries owns it
- shelf position (call number)
- status (on shelf or checked out)
- complete citation
Search Summit and/or WorldCat for books at other libraries.
Through Summit, you have access to the holdings of most academic libraries in the northwest. You can also choose to search the combined Summit/World Catalog. Search either just like you search Foxtrax, and then request what you find. Summit materials arrive in 2-4 business days. You can check Summit books out for 6 weeks with no renewals. Books requested from outside the Summit system can take 10 days to 3 weeks to arrive.
Types of searches that you can use to find books:
A. Title and author searches
If you know the title of a book or the name of an author you can perform a "Title" or "Author" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or a tab and entering the title or author name in the search box.
B. Keyword search
A keyword search is the broadest, most flexible search that you can use. It looks for the terms that you enter in any order within all of the fields of the bibliographic record. You can perform a "Keyword" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting this field option from a drop down menu or a tab and entering the keyword(s) in the search box. This can be a good way to start your book search but sometimes the results are irrelevant or there are so many that it would take too long to go through them all. If this is the case then a subject search will be more helpful for you.
C. Subject search
A subject search in the catalog is the most direct way to find a book on a specific topic. You can perform a "Subject" search in Foxtrax or Summit by selecting these field options from a drop-down menu or tab and entering the subject heading in the search box. It can be difficult to know or to find the right subject heading to use for this type of search. If you are not sure what term to use as a subject heading then read the tip below for a helpful alternative.
Easiest way to perform a subject search:
- Using a keyword search find one book in the catalog that most closely matches your topic of interest and look at the full record to view the subject headings that are used to describe the content. Click on one of the subject headings to view all materials that have been labeled with the same subject heading or use a combination of subject headings to formulate your own search.
Links to subject searches
Below are links to various subject searches in the catalog that will take you to the records of books that have been tagged with that subject heading.
Call numbers
If you want to browse for books in the library, use the call numbers below to find the subject areas that are of interest to you. You can use them to browse the reference section or the main stacks. The Library of Congress website may have a more detailed outline of call numbers for your subject area.
| HA 29-32 | Theory & Method of Social Science Statistics |
| HB 846-846.8 | Welfare Theory |
| HV 40-69 | Social Work (case work, institutional care, rural social work, work relief) |
| HV 85-525 | Social Work by Region or Country |
| HV 530 | The Church and Charity |
| HV 544.5 | International Social Work |
| HV 640-645 | Social Work with Refugees |
| HV 697-700.7 | Social Work with Families |
| HV 701-1441 | Child & Youth Services |
| HV 1442-1448 | Social Work with Women |
| HV 1449 | Social Work with Gays, Lesbians, and Other Sexual Minorities |
| HV 1450-1494 | Social Work with the Aged |
| HV 1551-3024 | Social Work with People with Disabilities |
| HV 3176-3199 | Social Work with People of Color |
| HV 4005-4013 | Social Work with Immigrants |
| HV 4023-4470.7 | Social Work with Urban Poor |
| HV 4480-4630 | Social Work with Homeless |
| HV 5001-5840 | Social Work with Addictions |
| HV 7428 | Social work with Delinquents and Criminals |
| HV 9051-9230.7 | Juvenile Offenders, Juvenile Delinquency |
| UH 750-769 | Military Social Work, Social Welfare Services |
| VG 2000-2005 | Military Social Work, Social Welfare Services (Navy) |
Reference books
Dictionaries
Dictionary of the social sciences (electronic resource)
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of social work (electronic resource)
Encyclopedia of death and dying (electronic resource)
International encyclopedia of the social sciences (electronic resource)
International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral science
The Blackwell encyclopaedia of social work
Videos
Build your own search:
1. Go to Foxtrax
2. Select Advanced Search
3. Enter a keyword in the search box
4. Limit "Material Type" to "PROJ MEDIUM"
Foxtrax subject searches for videos about:
National Association of Social Workers
Streaming videos
Build your own search:
1. Go to Foxtrax2. Select Advanced Search
3. Enter a keyword in the search box (you can select a search field for subject, title, or author in the drop-down menu)
4. Limit "Material Type" to "STREAMINGVIDEO"
Link to all streaming videos
If you would like to browse, click here to view the catalog's list of all streaming videos.
Web resources
SOSIG: Social Science Information Gateway
A database of several thousand Internet resources, each selected by a librarian or academic. This annotated catalog is browsable and searchable by subject area.
Social Statistics Briefing Room
The purpose of this site is to provide easy access to current Federal social statistics.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service
NCJRS hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, the NCJRS Abstracts Database. The collection contains more than 195,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.
The UC Atlas of Global Inequality
The mission of the UC Atlas of Inequality is to provide online teaching resources and tools to enable student exploration of global change.
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard Family Research Project promotes more effective educational practices, programs, and policies for disadvantaged children and youth by generating, publishing, and disseminating research.
U.S.DHHS Administration for Children & Families
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is a federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
Documenting the challenges of working families in the United States.
Hunger In America
Provides a “comprehensive profile of the incidence and nature of hunger and food insecurity in the U.S.
Google search: Social Work
This Google Custom Search engine searches quality, discipline specific websites selected by the librarians.
Professional organizations
National Association of Social Workers
National Association of Christian Social Work
National Association of Social Workers, Oregon Chapter
National Association of Social Workers, Washington Chapter
School Social Work Association of America
Clinical Social Work Association
Society for Social Work Leadership in Healthcare
Your library liaison
Karen Coronado, MLS
Phone: 503-554-2416
Email: kcoronado@georgefox.edu
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