Subject Guides: Social Policy, Social &amp; Political Sciences and Social Work (School for Business and Society): Welcome

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Social Policy, Social & Political Sciences and Social Work (SBS)

Welcome to this Subject Guide, which brings together key resources and information for students and staff.

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Some quick links to other useful sites

An introduction to Gale Primary Sources and Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Watch this video to learn more about Gale Digital Scholar Lab and the wide variety of text data mining applications available within it. As well as integrating with the Gale Primary Sources collections that the Library owns, the Lab can be used to analyse your own text based datasets, so is of value to all research disciplines.

You can access all of the resources listed within the video via our E-Resources Guide

Please note - the new Gale Primary Sources titles described within the video are expected to be available from February 2023.

Referencing guide for Social Policy and Social Work

The School for Business and Society uses the Harvard referencing style.

Click here to see the Harvard referencing style guide.

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Key databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.

For help using this resource for bibliometrics see Bibliometrics: a practical guide.

Accessibility information
Social Policy & Practice (Ovid) This link opens in a new window
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A bibliographic database containing over 200,000 records. Subject coverage includes public and social policy, public health, social care, community development, mental & community health, homelessness, housing, crime, law and order, families, children and older people. Indexes journal articles, books, grey literature, and UK government publications.

Social Policy and Practice combines the content of AgeInfo from the Centre for Policy on Ageing; Acompline from the Greater London Authority; Planex from IDXO plc (ex Planning Exchange) and Social Care Online from the Social Care Institute for Excellence.

Social Policy and Practice contains information from 1890 to date with most references from the 1980s onwards.

Updated quarterly.

For help with this resource, take a look at our Quick Guide.
Social Services Abstracts (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research in the areas of social work, human services, and related topics, including social welfare and social policy. It indexes and abstracts over 1,400 serial publications and includes abstracts of journal articles, dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Updated monthly.

Accessibility information

Explore the full range of databases in the Find resources page.

Social Policy, Social & Political Sciences and Social Work (School for Business and Society)

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