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  EBSCO - Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,500 journals and a total of more than 10,000 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
  MEDLINE
    1989-current
Produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, this is the major index of biomedical literature materials. Site License.
  PsycINFO
    1840-current
PsycINFO indexes and provides nonevaluative abstracts for scholarly, international literature in psychology and related disciplines such as sociology, education, consumer behavior, linguistics, medicine, law, psychiatry, and anthropology. Materials covered include articles from more than 1,300 journals, reports of surveys, bibliographies, books and book chapters, and dissertations. Dates covered: 1840 – present. Site License.
  Social Services Abstracts
    1980-current
CSA Social Services Abstracts provide bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Site License.
  Sociological Abstracts
    1963-current
Provides indexing with abstracts of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines. Available in print and online. Online includes Sociological Abstracts and Social Planning, Policy, and Development Abstracts (SOPODA). Site License.
Location: HM1 .S67 (Wilson 1 East)

General Reference Sources

    Directories

  National directory of children, youth & families services
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV741 .N3157
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    Encyclopedias

  Encyclopedia of social work
Three volumes provide nearly 3,000 pages of information on every aspect of social work. Expanded content areas include new technologies, research, global changes, U.S. policy developments, and evolving roles for social workers. Each volume contains a complete table of contents and full index. The Encyclopedia is a solid investment that will provide years of practical service as a one-stop resource for looking up facts, studying for licensing exams, supplementing course work, and more.
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV35. S6
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    Handbooks and Manuals

  Mental health disorders sourcebook : basic information about schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias and other anxiety disorders, paranoia and other personality disorders, eating disorders . . .
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference RC454.4 .M458 1996
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  Social workers' desk reference
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV40 .S6464 2002
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    Reference Works

  Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders : DSM-IV
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference RC455.2.C4 D54 1994
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    Subject Dictionaries

  The Social work dictionary
Location: Haggard 2 -Reference HV12 .B37 1995
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Internet Resources

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  Washington (State). Department of Social and Health Services

Statistics and Data

    Statistical Resources

  Statistical abstract of the United States
    1995-
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. contains a collection of statistical tables on social and economic conditions in the United States with selected international data. Sources include data from the Census Bureau, other Federal agencies, and private organizations. Back issues are available in print form in the Government Documents collection: C 3.134: Tables and information from the years 1995-2002 are available on the web.
Location: Haggard 2 - Gov. Inf. Ref. C 3.134:/ Haggard 2 -Ref Desk Coll HA202.A1
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