To make sure you are a carrying out a thorough search for your topic you could also try the following key, specialised databases. To access them use the Find Databases link on the LibrarySearch home page, find them in the A-Z list and click on the link.

ASSIA – ASSIA stands for Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts. It covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. It’s very good for social care topics.

Child Development and Adolescent Studies – Information about the growth and development of children up to the age of 21.

LexisLibrary and/or Westlaw – law databases

PsycINFO – Pyschological, social, behavioural and health health sciences journals. Very useful for mental health topics.

Psychotherapy.net – offers access to training videos in the fields of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Social Work. 100 titles from the psychotherapy and counselling video collection plus 41 titles focussing on social work.

SCOPUS - Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 22,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers researchers a quick, easy and comprehensive resource to support their research needs in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.

Social Policy and Practice – Social Policy and Practice represents an important source of evidence-based social science research. Coverage includes topics such as social care, homelessness and older people. The database comprises over 320,000 bibliographic records, with a significant number citing important sources such as semi-published reports, surveys and statistics.

Social Work Toolkit – The Social Work Toolkit is an online resource which brings together a wealth of content designed to help social work students develop the knowledge, skills and confidence to succeed on their course and placements.

TRIP medical database - Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care.

Also available in LibrarySearch is Lexis+ Newspapers UK and the Oxford English Dictionary View the help guides for key LibrarySearch databases.

Please note you will be able to access the full text of many of the articles you find when searching the databases, but not all of them.

Library Guide - Social Work