Research Guides: Social Work: Databases

Best Resources for Articles & Essays

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
"This database is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features millions of records with subject headings from a sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers."
ProQuest Central Databases This link opens in a new window
ProQuest Central is the largest single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas.
Subject areas include: Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES®, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals. Coverage spans 1894 to the present and nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 5,000 journals.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
The premier index for journal articles and book essays in all fields of religion, biblical studies, and theology.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR is a interdisciplinary database of full text journals.
OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson) This link opens in a new window
Contains a wealth of essential material for learning and research across the disciplines, including peer-reviewed articles.
Credo Reference (Academic Core Collection) This link opens in a new window
Over 700 encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and reference handbooks.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites.