Library databases
The library subscribes to over 200 databases. We subscribe to both subject-specific and interdisciplinary databases and whilst most databases provide full-text journal articles, we are subscribing to more databases that provide online audio or video content, as well as other types of information.
For off campus access, log in with your Goldsmiths IT/IS username and password.
Note that staff and students who join Senate House Library have remote access to their wide range of web resources.
The A-Z list of our databases, with brief descriptions is available here.
Essential
- Social Care Online This link opens in a new windowSocial Care Online is the UK's largest online database of information on all aspects of social work and social care. It includes legislation, government documents, practice and guidance, systematic reviews, research briefings, UK grey (informally-published) literature, reports, and journal articles. The database is updated daily and contains over 160,000 records from the 1980s onwards.
Not in Library Search - Community Care Inform Adults This link opens in a new windowA full text resource designed to inform current practice for professionals working with adults. It includes sections on legislation, case law and research.
Not in Library Search - Community Care Inform Children and Families This link opens in a new windowA full text resource designed to inform current practice for professionals working with children and young people. It includes sections on legislation, case law and research.
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Research methods
- Sage Research Methods Online (Core collection) This link opens in a new windowA tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. SAGE Research Methods' taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content including: Over 640 books, Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series, Two major works collating a selection of journal articles and Newly commissioned videos. SRMO LibGuide
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Psychology databases
- PsycInfo This link opens in a new windowAbstract database of psychological literature in behavioural and social sciences from 1800s to the present.
Partially in Library Search - PsycArticles This link opens in a new windowFull text journal articles published by the American Psychological Association. In Library Search
- Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection This link opens in a new windowFull text resource for key subjects within this field. Can be used in conjunction with PsycInfo.
Partially in Library Search - Counseling and Therapy in Video: Vols.1-4 This link opens in a new windowCounseling and Therapy in Video provides faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice. This collection provides a thorough grounding in dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, insight into the human condition, and training in skills such as reflection and empathy while working with specific populations such as veterans and teens. In Library Search
Proquest social work databases
The six databases listed below are supplied by Proquest. Search all the Proquest databases recommended for Social Work concurrently here, or to search them individually use the links below.
- Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) This link opens in a new window(1987- current). Coverage includes: health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Partially in Library Search - International Bibliography of Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window(1951 – current). Coverage includes: anthropology, cultural studies, demography, education, ethnology and ethnography, politics, religious studies and sociology.
Partially in Library Search - Sociology Collection This link opens in a new window(1985 – current). Full text coverage of about 275 sociology and social work journals, including many titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts.
In Library Search - Social Services Abstracts This link opens in a new window(1979 – current). Coverage includes: social work, human services and related areas, including social welfare, social policy and community development.
Not in Library Search - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window(1952 – current). Covers the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Indexes thousands of journal titles and also includes books, book chapters, dissertations, conference papers and working papers. Cited references are included for many journal articles.
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Others
- Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new windowBoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education. Our academically-focused system allows staff and students at subscribing institutions to record programmes from over 65 free-to-air channels, and search our extensive archive.
Please note that due to licensing restrictions users can only access this resource from within the UK
Not in Library Search - Children & Young People Now This link opens in a new windowCYPNow.co.uk is the essential website for anyone who works with children - from birth to the onset of adulthood - and their families. It provides a breaking news service as well as sections on careers and qualifications, management, funding, policy and legal issues. It also has blogs from a number of children's sector professionals and a forum for practitioners to interact and debate key issues.
Not in Library Search - Cochrane Library This link opens in a new windowA collection of databases with high quality independent evidence for health care decision making from the international Cochrane Collaboration including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. All are freely available online.
Partially in Library Search - InCites Journal Citation Reports This link opens in a new windowJournal Citation Reports (JCR) aggregates citations to selected core journals (via Web of Science), to aid citation analysis and create visualisations of a vast network of scholarship. JCR has recently published an 'editorial expression of concern' which can be read here.
Not in Library Search - Kanopy This link opens in a new windowKanopy is a streaming video service for educational institutions. Goldsmiths provide access to a small but growing collection of films.
In Library Search - Westlaw This link opens in a new windowWestlaw is our primary resource for UK and EU Law and a number of international jurisdictions. It contains current and historic legislation and case law and has a very searchable journals index with many key titles in full text. It also contains its own topic guides to law and hosts the main legal dictionaries plus many other legal books. A video guide to the resource can be found here.
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