Social Work: Social Services Abstracts
Core Database for Social Work
- Social Services AbstractsIncludes citations of journal articles, dissertations, and conference proceedings focused on social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development.
Keyword Searching in Social Services Abstracts
This very short tutorial from Humboldt State Library demonstrates performing a keyword search in Social Services Abstracts.
Searching in Social Services Abstracts
- Quotation marks searches the database for those words together as a term, such as "minimum wage".
- An asterisk (*) searches the database for that word plus any variants of the root word. For example, work* will search for work, worker, workforce, and workplace.
- Use the OR search fields to search for synonyms, such as "poor" OR "poverty".
- Use the limits to filter for a particular source type, such as "scholarly journals".