UCF Research Guides: Social Work Databases: Social Work

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Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (1910+)
APA PsycInfo (EBSCOhost) (1887+)
"contains approximately 3 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the 1600s with DOIs for over 1.4 million records. Ninety-eight percent of the covered material is peer-reviewed. The database also includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others. Journal coverage, which spans from the1800s to present, includes international material selected from around 2,500 periodicals in dozens of languages."
Psychological Abstracts:
* 1927-1947 Microfilm BF1.P65
* 1948-2004 print in remote storage
Family Studies Abstracts (EBSCOhost)
Sociology Database (ProQuest)
Subject coverage:
- Community and mental health services
- Crisis intervention
- The family and social welfare
- Gerontology
- Poverty and homelessness
- Professional issues in social work
- Social services in addiction
- Social work education
- Social work practice
- Violence, abuse, neglect
Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest) (1979+)
Social Work Abstracts (EBSCOhost) (1965+)

Social Work Databases

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Abstracts in Social Gerontology (EBSCOhost)
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (Wiley)
"Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually."
Florida Health Charts (FL Dept of Health) This link opens in a new window
COMMUNITY TOOLS
Life Expectancy
Community Map
Social & Economic Factors
PROFILES & DASHBOARDS
Health Equity
Health Summaries
Healthiest Weight
Injuries
Population-Specific
Social & Behavioral Health
HEALTH INDICATORS
Reportable & Infectious Diseases
Chronic Diseases
Behavioral Risk Factor Data
Youth Tobacco
Maternal & Child Health
Environmental Health
Injury & Violence
Social & Behavioral Health
Health Resources Availability
Population Characteristics
DATA QUERIES
Births: Counts | Rates
Deaths: Counts | Rates
Infant Deaths: Counts | Rates
Fetal Deaths: Counts | Rates
Marriages: Counts | Rates
Dissolutions of Marriage: Counts | Rates
Population Estimates
Reportable Diseases
MEDLINE (EBSCOhost) (1946+)
Subject content includes anatomy; communication disorders; microbiology; paramedical professions; pathology; physiology; psychiatry; toxicology; dentistry; parasitology; reproductive biology; epidemiology; gene therapy; surgical and pharmaceutical intervention; nursing practice; ethical and legal issues; institutional operations; laboratory techniques and procedures; diagnosis and management; clinical research trials and experimental treatment protocols; legislation and regulation; allied health specialties; continuing education; investigational drugs and new drug uses, and some veterinary medicine.
Mental Measurements Yearbook with Tests in Print (EBSCOhost) (1985+)
PTSDpubs (ProQuest) (1871+)
The PILOTS bibliographic database is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in White River Junction, Vermont. The PILOTS database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global (1637+)
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"ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Global (PQDTGlobal) is the world's most comprehensive collection of full-text dissertations and theses. As the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and as the database of record for graduate research, PQDTGlobal includes millions of searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day together with over a million full-text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. Over 2.1 million titles are available for purchase as printed copies. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full-text coverage for older graduate works. It also includes PQDT UK & Ireland content."
Sage Research Methods
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includes the complete series of:
- Little Green Books -- Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences
- Little Blue Books -- Qualitative Research Methods