Subject Guides: Social Policy and Social Work: Welcome

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Welcome to the Subject Guide for Social Policy and Social work

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

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Key databases

Web of Science
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)
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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 Care Online
A freely available resource which aims to be the UKs most extensive database of social care information. Social Care Online indexes journal articles, reports and government publications. It also provides access to good practice guidance, training materials, etc.

Note that you will need to Register or Login in order to access some features, including advanced search and the saved search function.

Updated daily.

For help with this resource, take a look at the Social Care Online help.

Accessibility information

Explore the full range of databases for Social Policy and Social Work in the Find resources page.

Social Policy and Social Work

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