Thematic profile of Social Work and Sociology
Databases
Complete Freedom Collection (ELSEVIER)
The Elsevier Freedom Collection is a service that provides access to the full text of around 1,700 scientific, medical and technical journals from the Elsevier Group.
Publishers included in the Freedom Collection include Academic Press, Pergamon, W. B. Saunders, Mosby, North Holland, Churchill Livingston, JAI and ESME.
Family and Society Studies Worldwide
A leading source of research, policy and empirical practice in family science, human ecology, human development and social work. Contains 1 306 000 records covering all fields and needs for social work, sociology and general medicine. Documents range from 1970 to the present day.
Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). Comprises 450 publications on social work and human services dating back to 1965. Provides citations and abstracts on all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, service areas, and social problems and issues.
The world's most comprehensive and prestigious sociological research database. More than 2,100 records available. Subject headings are extracted from a thesaurus. Contains full text of 820 publications since 1908, over 830 books and 14,600 papers.
A collaboration between the National Association of Social Workers (NASW Press) and Oxford University Press (OUP). A classic reference work that has been a valuable tool for social workers for over 85 years. It offers hundreds of summary articles on key topics in the study of social work, as well as concise biographies of influential figures in the history of social work. It also provides links to external resources and information to help expand and contextualise research. It is a resource designed for a broad audience studying or working in the field of social work, as well as related fields such as public health and sociology.
SAGE Humanities and Social Science (HSS) Package
Online platform containing over 660 Humanities and Social Science journals with full-text access from 1999 to the present. It includes peer-review journals, many of which have an impact factor in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR). Highlights include education and special education.
- Tutorial [SPA]
Provides access to the full text of around 1,400 journals (generally since 1997) published by John Wiley and Sons. The dominant language of the articles is English. The subject matter covers both the scientific and humanities fields.
Free databases
Specialised open-access repository for social science research. Run by the Open Science Framework and hosted by the University of Maryland. Available permanently and free to the public, and is driven and managed by a steering committee of sociologists and members of the professional research library community.
Portals and search engines
State Centre for Documentation and Information on Social Services (CEDISS)
Created by the Ministry of Labour and Social Security. It organises documentation on social services and resources in Spain and in the most advanced countries in this field. It has a library specialised in social action and social services.
It belongs to the Institute of Development Studies and International Cooperation of the University of the Basque Country. Disseminates a collection specialised in development and cooperation. It includes a selection of links of interest by subject.
Information and meeting point for professionals working in social services and other areas of intervention related to people at risk of exclusion.
General library resources
Reference works
Produced by the ONCE Foundation.
Pl@nete Psy: Lexique de Psychologie
Produced by Claude Goulet, Professor of Psychology at the Collège Ahuntsic.
Spanish official organisations
Portal of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality. It gathers sources of information on disability, the elderly, family, drug addiction, gender violence, equal opportunities, etc.
Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration.
From its website you can access several portals such as the Immigration Portal, Spanish Observatory of Racism and Xenophobia, Local Integration, etc.
International official organisations
Portal that brings together topics of interest such as culture and education, development and humanitarian aid, employment and social affairs, environment and local development, etc.
MISSOC: Mutual Information System on Social Protection in the Member States of the European Union
The European Commission's portal for the exchange of information on social protection in the member states. It provides detailed information on each country, and also offers the opportunity to compare and analyse different social protection systems.
It has five action lines: peace and security, development, human rights, humanitarian affairs and international law.
Spanish non-official organisations
Laboratory of ideas that provides scientifically based information and analysis for the resolution of problems that affect society, both visible and those that sometimes go unnoticed.
The aims of the Foundation are to contribute to the knowledge of the social reality of Spain, to be a stable and continuous reference in the field of social exclusion and applied sociology, to offer a meeting place for people, groups and entities that work in social analysis.
General Council of Social Work
Representative, coordinating and executive body of the Colleges of Social Work. Responsible for regulating professional practice and ensuring the prestige of the profession. It defends the fulfilment of human rights and social justice.
Conference of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work.
Entity that represents and defends the interests for the improvement of university training in social work. Its aims are the quality of training, to constitute a space for dialogue, and to promote scientific activity.
International non-official organisations
Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU)
Housed at the University of York, it is one of the most prestigious sites for social policy research. Its aim is to develop services to help people in vulnerable situations; poverty, old age, disability.
International Council on Social Welfare (ICSW)
Is active in a wide range of fields within the general areas of social development, social welfare and social justice. This includes issues such as food and nutrition, health and welfare services, social protection, education and housing, as well as many others relating to economic development, human rights and community participation.
International Association for Schools of Social Work (IASSW)
Association established for the promotion of social work education throughout the world. Provides a forum for the exchange of social research, promotion of human rights and social development.
International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)
World organisation to fight for social justice and human rights, through the promotion of social work, models of good practice and the development of international co-operation.