1. How to research in Social Work
Cardinal Meyer Library
Marian University

2. Off Campus Access
To access databases from home, users must click on Marian University and then enter their and Marian password:

3. Find social work books and articles from all sources (SabreSearch):

4. SabreSearch Results
The results list books, articles, & videos worldwide unless the results are narrowed down—3,598,552 items!!!

5. Choosing the box by books includes ebooks
Choosing the box by books includes ebooks. Click on “View Ebook” to read it or view its descripton:

6. View the book’s description, try additional subjects, read the full text:

7. Click Article box to only find articles
Click Article box to only find articles. Sort results by time or best match. click to see full text. The articles are in the journal, Social Work

8. Library search tips
OR – used for synonyms or related topics community OR neighborhood
AND -- used to narrow down or combine topics community AND development
Truncation. Find all words that begin with letters before symbol, usually a * : develop* (developing, developing, developers, development)
Phrase, usually in quotation marks “ “ “Social work”
(community OR neighborhood) AND “social worker*”

9. Advanced Search Use drop downs or type to use commands like AND/OR
Also can choose which databases to use

10. Other tasks Create bibliography, click on Cite
Create a permalink to the item
the item and its description
Sign in to view what you have checked out, place holds on books or DVDs, or renew library materials

11. Library Homepage Does Marian have fulltext for journal?
Search only specific databases
Did my professor put a video or textbook on reserve?

12. Library reserves
Faculty can place DVDs or books on reserve in the library for 2 hour or 24 hour use, or provide links to streaming videos or online books. If you need a text, ask your professor if this is possible for your class.

13. Search for a full text journal
Type in the journal’s name or ISSN. Social Work is an important journal for social workers for example.

14. Social Work Results
The Library has four journals with the name Social Work in the title.

15. Fulltext for Social Work
The Social Work journal is indexed in 8 Marian databases, beginning in 1956 for the Criminal Justice Abstracts.
None have fulltext for the last 12 months so request those from interlibrary loan or check if they are free (open source.)

16. Accessing Full Text
Click on blue link to see all the issues with full text

17. Finding Full Text Issues
Type journal name (“Social Work”) in the search box
Use the drop down to choose SOURCE

18. “Social Work” articles
13522 articles found
Use drop down to sort by date, source, relevance…
Click on PDF or HTML to read article

19. To view journal directly
Click on Publications on the top bar

20. To see all full text issues
Type in journal name or on the first letter of the name to browse
Click on the desired title

21. Social Work full text
Click on the desired issues to view the table of contents of each issue and read the full text
The most recent issues are not available

22. find articles through databases
To locate articles for research, use the library databases OR for this assignment, find a professional journal in your field such as Social Work
Accessing a Database
Connect to the library
homepage
Click on Databases A-Z
Then select a database to
search from the alphabetical
list of databases
Or select Subject Guides and select the appropriate subject or discipline page to find databases related to social work

23. Social Work Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts offers extensive coverage of more than 450 social work and human services journals dating back to Produced by the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the database provides citations and abstracts dealing with all aspects of the social work field, including theory and practice, areas of service and social issues and problems
Click on the link for Social Work Abstracts to proceed to the search screen.

24. Social Work Abstracts
Example Search: Enter keywords in the boxes at the top of the search screen.
In the drop down menu next to the search box, select an option of where the database will look for the keywords. The ‘All Text’ option will search everywhere for the keywords.

25. Social Work Abstracts

26. Social Work Abstracts
To read the article, click on the PDF or HTML links:
If the article is not available in full text, click the Request Item through Interlibrary loan link to order the item from a different library.
Note: Items requested via Interlibrary Loan may take 7-10 days to arrive in the library but ed articles are often quicker
A link may be provided to another database that does have the full text, in the proceeding example, it is a dissertation in the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database

27. Sage Premier
SAGE Premier access the full text of all SAGE Journals back to 1999 including journals in Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Management & Organization Studies, Political Science, Psychology, Social Work, Sociology and Urban Studies.

28. Sage Premier
Enter keywords into the search box Use dropdown to specific title words, author, etc.

29. Sage Premier
A list of articles that pertain to the terms searched will be displayed. The number of articles will be displayed above the result list.
To display an article, click on the “Full Text PDF” link below the citation.

30. Recommended Databases
PsycARTICLES & PsycINFO are provided by the American Psychological Association. Contains more than 2 million citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, all in psychology and related disciplines. Includes peer-reviewed articles.
CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) contains articles from the nursing literature including scholarly journals including some in the related field of social work
Academic Search Complete covers the all academic subject areas and includes news articles, articles from professional journals, and scholar, peer reviewed research articles.
Criminal Justice Abstracts covers many social work journals if they relate to criminal justice.
PsychiatryOnline incudes the DSM and articles and books in psychiatry

31. E-mail refdesk@marianuniversity.edu
Questions
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the reference desk at (920) Or