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Offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals. It covers all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service, social issues and problems, therapy, education, human services, addictions, child and family welfare, mental health, and civil and legal rights. It is produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW).

This database features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts. It indexes over 750 core journals, 575 priority journals, 2,800 selective journals, books, conference papers, and other non-periodical content sources. Searchable cited references are also provided. It covers all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study, including abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, and violence. It features over 10,000 author profiles with biographical and bibliographic information. It contains full-text for over 344 core journals, 129 priority journals, 700 books, and 6,800 conference papers. It includes the former EBSCO database, Sociological Collection. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by EBSCO Publishing. Evidence-Based Practice Tip: To limit search results to articles with some level of evidence: Type your search strategy in the textboxes provided. Type research in the next available textbox. Click the Search button.

Over 480 streaming videos on topics including counseling research methods, counseling setting/client groups, theory and approaches, counseling skills, and professional issues.

This database is the online version of the print resource, Psychological Abstracts. It provides abstracts and indexing to the scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, dissertations, and technical reports in psychology, the behavioral sciences and mental health. It also covers topics related to psychology such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. Journal coverage includes more than 1,900 international periodicals written in over 24 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present. It is produced by the American Psychological Association (APA) and the user interface is provided by PsycNET.

1980-present plus citations to older cited references; updated weekly; some full-text

Formerly Web of Knowledge, this database includes Web of Science Core Collection (Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science Edition, and Social Sciences Citation Index), BIOSIS Citation Index, BIOSIS Previews,Biological Abstracts,Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Sciences and Humanities Edition, KCI-Korean Journal Database, SciELO Citation Index, and MEDLINE. You can perform Cited Reference Searching in the Web of Science Core Collection. You can link to Journal Citation Reports and Essential Science Indicators from this platform as well.

HelpPRO Social Worker Finder permits users to freely search for a social worker by miles from office location, zip code, specialization, age group focus, specific population, insurance payment type (private, medicare, medicaid), insurance plan, and insurance state. Advanced, group, and name searches are also available. NASW members can join HelpPRO to list their practice.

Mometrix includes study guides with practice exams for many academic areas. Some of the study guides included are OAE/ Ohio Assessments for Educators, GRE, MCAT, GMAT, and many more.

The practice exams are not interactive but do include answers and explanations for all questions. Although printing is not available from this resource, unlimited electronic access to the e-books is provided to the Xavier Community.