socw385

Selected Resources in
SOCW 385—Social Policy II
April 3, 2003
PLU Library--Gail Egbers
535-8869/egbersgl@plu.edu

BOOKS: Our computerized catalog provides access to the materials in our library. Use the Library of Congress Subject Headings to identify the best subject headings for your topic. Some topics that might be of interest:

Social service--United States—History
United States--Social policy
Adoption -- United States
Health policy -- United States
Public welfare -- United States
Affirmative action programs -- United States
Runaway Teenagers
Homelessness – United States
Prostitution -- United States
Abortion -- Law and legislation -- United States
Abused Women – United States
Health Planning
United States. Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997.

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes provide the most efficient subject access to journals, magazines, and newspapers. Some of these indexes are print and some electronic. Access the electronic resources from the PLU library home page: (http://www.plu.edu/~libr). Some electronic resources require a username and password. A few indexes that might be useful:

Alternative Press Index--Indexes 250 non-mainstream journals, magazines, and newspapers that offer alternative perspectives in the humanities and social science fields, including areas such as cultural, economic, political and social change.

EBSCOhost -- A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas –including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.

JSTOR -- an archival database with 117 core scholarly journals in the arts, social sciences, sciences and 7 general science journals starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s and some even to the 1600s. JSTOR provides the full text (in PDF format) of all journal content. You can retrieve specific articles, browse individual journals, or search by topic. As this is an archival service, current issues (usually the latest 3 to 5 years) are NOT available. Off-campus access requires PLU ePass username and password.

Lexis-Nexis--Provides access to a range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It is particularly strong in its news coverage, featuring mostly full-text articles from newspapers around the world. It is also strong in its law coverage, offering full text from law reviews, federal case law, and state case law.

PAIS International--Indexes and abstracts international publications of all kinds in the social sciences and public policy, from the mid-1970s to present

ProQuest New York Times Historical --The full-text of the New York Times 1851-1999.

PsycINFO--Indexes and abstracts the international literature of psychology, 1887 to present. It includes some full text.

Sociological Abstracts--Covers the fields of sociology, anthropology, and related social science disciplines. Citations and abstracts are available for over 2,600 journals, books, conference papers, and dissertations (1986 - present). Full text is available for many of the journals when searched simultaneously with EBSCOHost’s Academic Search Premier database

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Use Journals at PLU to obtain the call number of the journal you need. Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor. Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are on the second and third floors, shelved with the books. Journals at PLU also gives you access to our full-text periodicals.

REFERENCE BOOKS

Adoption Law and Practice (ref. KF545.A36x 2000)
American Constitutional Law (ref. KF4550.T785 2000)
Dictionary Of American Criminal Justice : Key Terms And Major Supreme Court Cases (ref. HV7411.C53 1998)
Disabilities Sourcebook: basic consumer health information about physical and psychiatric disabilities (ref. HV1553.D544 2000)
Encyclopedia of Adoption (ref. HV875.55.A28 2000)
Encyclopedia of Crime & Justice (ref. HV6017.E52 2002)
Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior (ref. HV6017.E53 2001)
Encyclopedia of Mental Health (ref. RA790.5.E53 1998)
Encyclopedia of Social Work (ref. HV35.S6)
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (ref. KF4548.E53 2000)
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Supreme Court (ref. KF8742.A35E53 2001)
Encyclopedia of Women and Gender: sex similarities and differences and the impact of society on gender (ref. HQ1115.E43 2001)
Feminism: a reference handbook (ref. HQ1410.H365 1998)
Health, United States (ref. RA407.3.U57a) (Online: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS2649)
Historic U.S. Court Cases, 1690-1990: an encyclopedia (ref. KF385.A4J64 1992)
Homelessness: an annotated bibliography (ref. HV4493.H46x 1993)
Illustrated Great Decisions of the Supreme Court (ref. KF4549.M334 2000)
Proposed Washington State Budget (ref. HJ11.W242b)
Social Work Dictionary (ref. HV12.B37 1999)
Statutes, Regulations, and Case Law Protecting Individuals with Disabilities (ref. KF480.S68 1997)
Washington State vital statistics (ref. HA691.W3)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law (ref. KF154.W47 1997)

LEGAL SOURCES:

America Jurisprudence; a modern comprehensive text statement of American law, State and Federal (ref. KF154.A42)
Corpus Juris Secundum: a complete restatement of the entire American law as developed by all reported cases (ref. KF154.C67)
Pacific Reporter (KF135.P22 2000)
Revised code of Washington (ref. KFW30.2002.A22) (online: http://www.leg.wa.gov/rcw/index.cfm)
United States Code (ref. KF62.A2 2000) (online: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/)
Washington Administrative Code (ref. KFW35 1995.A23)
(online: http://search.mrsc.org/nxt/gateway.dll?f=templates&fn=legpage.htm$vid=rcwwac:leg)

INTERNET RESOURCES

The Internet is an attractive source of information but it does not have the best information for
all situations. Use the Internet only for supplemental information. Read the handout "Evaluating Information from the Internet" (http://www.plu.edu/~egbersgl/evalinternet.html). It is great for governmental and law topics.

Social Work History On-Line Time-Line (http://www.gnofn.org/~jill/swhistory/)
Web Sites of Interest to Social Workers (http://www.socialworker.com/websites.htm)

Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (http://icpc.aphsa.org/)
Basic Health (http://www.basichealth.hca.wa.gov/)
Catalog Of Federal Domestic Assistance 93.558: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
(http://aspe.hhs.gov/cfda/p93558.htm)
Catalogue of Primary Documents On-Site (Affirmative Action) (http://aad.english.ucsb.edu/pages/primary-docs.html)
Child Welfare League of America: The Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997 (http://www.cwla.org/advocacy/asfa.htm)
FedLaw (http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm)
How Laws Are Made (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/9-12/lawmaking/index.html)
IDEA ’97 (http://www.ed.gov/offices/OSERS/Policy/IDEA/the_law.html/)
Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/)
National Health Security Plan (http://www.ibiblio.org/nhs/NHS-T-o-C.html)
Office on Violence Against Women (http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/vawo/)
Origins of Affirmative Action (http://www.now.org/nnt/08-95/affirmhs.html)
Roe v. Wade in a Nutshell (http://members.aol.com/abtrbng/roeins.htm)
Runaway & Homeless Youth Act (http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/fysb/Missing.pdf)
Social Policy Public Law Page (http://www.brockport.edu/~govdoc/SocPol/spplhome.html)
State of Washington Web Resources by Subject--Welfare (http://www.statelib.wa.gov/web_resources4.aspx?catid=66)
Supreme Court of the US (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/)
THOMAS –U.S. Congress on the Internet (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
US Department of Health and Human Services (http://www.hhs.gov/)
USA PATRIOT Act: A Legal Analysis (http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RL31377.pdf)
USA PATRIOT Act: A Sketch (http://www.fas.org/irp/crs/RS21203.pdf)
Violence Against Women Act of 1998 (http://www.now.org/issues/violence/vawa/vawa1998.html)
Washington State Legislature (http://search.leg.wa.gov/basic/textsearch/default.asp)
Welfare Reform (http://www.acf.hhs.gov/news/welfare/)

BEYOND PLU

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If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance. During the Spring my office hours are Tuesdays, 11:00-1:00, Thursdays 3:00-5:00.

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