Guides: Social Welfare: Databases

Electronic Resources

Academic OneFile
Provides millions of articles from over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources—including thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Academic Search Ultimate
Academic Search Ultimate is our largest multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos.
Business Source Premier
Scholarly business journals and publications covering marketing, management, accounting, finance and economics. Business Source Premier also includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
Congress.gov
Find federal legislative information such as bills and resolutions, activity in Congress, committee information, and more.
OneFile: Criminal Justice
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering law and law enforcement. Includes information from more than 250 journals.
Formerly called Criminal Justice Collection
OneFile: Diversity Studies
Search a subset of Gale Academic OneFile journals covering cultural differences, contributions and influences in the global community. Includes over 2.7 million articles from 150 journals.
Formerly called Diversity Studies Collection
OneFile: Gender Studies
Gale OneFile: Gender Studies provides access to scholarly journals and magazines covering topics including gender studies, family and marital issues, health aspects, and more.
Formerly called Gender Studies Collection
OneFile: Health and Medicine
More than 2,500 full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries. Includes nursing and allied health journals, as well as personal health information sources.
Formerly called Health Reference Center Academic
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Consumer health articles and information
Health Source - Nursing/Academic
Scholarly journals covering nursing and allied health topics including pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. Includes more than 320 full-text journals and a comprehensive medical dictionary.

HeinOnline
HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world.

JSTOR
A collection of core scholarly journals, many going back to the first volume. Emphasis is on back issue coverage. JSTOR also has an extensive collection of primary sources.
Medline
Created by the United States National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE is an authoritative bibliographic database containing citations and abstracts for biomedical and health journals used by health care professionals, nurses, clinicians and researchers.

Oxford Reference Online: Sociology
Find definitions, biographies, and more from Oxford reference titles.
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Oxford Reference Online: Social Welfare & Social Services
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APA PsycINFO
World's largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Produced by the American Psychological Association, it includes more than 4 million bibliographic records and indexing of more than 2,500 journals.
Sage Journals Online
A searchable collection of scholarly online journals published by Sage, covering humanities, natural science, education, fine arts, music, and social science

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Boston Public Library Sociology Resources