Choosing a Database for Social Work: A Comparison of Social Work Abstracts and Social Service Abstracts

Flatley, Robert; Lilla, Rick; Widner, Jack

doi:10.1016/j.acalib.2006.08.007

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“…This article reports on an analysis that aimed to determine what the journal literature has communicated as a whole and over time to students, practitioners, and academics who search for the most prevalent themes, social roles, and curricular areas that affect women in social work. Despite its documented limitations (e.g., Shek, 2008;Taylor, Dempster, & Donnelly, 2003), many universities and academics maintain access and allegiance to the Social Work Abstracts Database [SWAB] (Flatley, Lilla, & Widner, 2007), ''the oldest and most easily recognized abstracting service for social workers'' (p. 47), to conduct this research. This electronic database, dedicated solely to social work journals, is produced and funded by the National Association of Social Workers and provides coverage of more than 500 social work journals from 1977 to the present (NASW Press, 2011).…”

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“…This electronic database, dedicated solely to social work journals, is produced and funded by the National Association of Social Workers and provides coverage of more than 500 social work journals from 1977 to the present (NASW Press, 2011). SWAB is also recommended over the Social Services Abstracts Database [SSA] when the research preference calls for domestic rather than international journals (Flatley et al, 2007).…”

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Women, Feminism, and Social Work Journals 10 Years Later

Barretti

2011

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This article updates a previous content analysis of abstracts published in 17 social work journals from 1988 to 1997, which responded to the search words women and social work. Comparisons include the number of articles per journal, women's social identities, themes and curricular areas, authors' analytical methods, and the amount and degree of feminist content. The findings revealed a decrease in both women's and feminist content. Mothers/caregivers, medical/mental health patients, and battered women continued to be the most frequent referents. Health, mental health, and violence prevailed in themes, casework/human behavior and the social environment and social policy dominated curricular areas, and empirical articles topped the analytic category.

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Women, Feminism, and Social Work Journals 10 Years Later

Barretti

2011

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“…IP is not intended as a complete index of any of these materials''. While IP might be useful in the course of performing a literature review, one should not walk away from a search of IP, or from any other database for that matter, convinced that they found everything on the topic (e.g., Flatley et al 2007;Holden et al 2008Holden et al , 2009Kemp and Brustman 1997;Mendelsohn 1986;Shek 2008;Taylor et al 2006Taylor et al , 2007Tomaiuolo 1993).…”

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Information for Clinical Social Work Practice: A Potential Solution

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The field of social work requires knowledgeable, skilled and self-confident professionals. We assume that many of these social workers will have less than optimal access to professionally relevant information, within and outside of their workplaces. We also assume that they, like others searching for information, will have a limited set of search skills yet will want to obtain the information for practice they need as easily as possible. Finally, we assume they will continue turning to the Internet to access relevant information. This paper describes Information for Practice (IP), an Internet service designed for social work practitioners based on these assumptions. Data regarding use of this service are presented.

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“…Flatley, Lilla, and Widner (2007) stressed the three broad areas of indexing, journal coverage, and search performance. The conclusion that the databases analyzed were "complementary" is an odd one for it is tantamount to not making a decision regarding which database is preferred and why.…”

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A Critical Analysis of SocINDEX and Sociological Abstracts Using an Evaluation Method for the Practicing Bibliographer

Mellone

2010

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This study provides a database evaluation method for the practicing bibliographer that is more than a brief review yet less than a controlled experiment. The author establishes evaluation criteria in the context of the bibliographic instruction provided to meet the research requirements of undergraduate sociology majors at Queens College, City University of New York. Applying the criteria to critically analyze SocINDEX and Sociological Abstracts finds that Sociological Abstracts better meets the needs of sociology undergraduates and concludes that Sociological Abstracts is the more inherently reliable and authoritative bibliographic resource for the indexing, abstracting, and researching of scholarly sociological literature.

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Choosing a Database for Social Work: A Comparison of Social Work Abstracts and Social Service Abstracts

Cited by 17 publications

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Women, Feminism, and Social Work Journals 10 Years Later

Women, Feminism, and Social Work Journals 10 Years Later

Information for Clinical Social Work Practice: A Potential Solution

A Critical Analysis of SocINDEX and Sociological Abstracts Using an Evaluation Method for the Practicing Bibliographer

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