This research guide is designed to help social work students find state and federal legislation, documents, and contextual materials regarding contemporary social welfare issues. Be sure also to check the Public Policy and Legislative Research (United States) research guides, located in the Public Policy category.
This is a selection of social work, sociology, and newspaper databases to begin researching the background information for your social problem and policy issue, whether at the local, state, or national level. Depending on your specific issue, you will want to search additional subject databases, such as ERIC for education topics, Criminal Justice Abstracts and National Criminal Justice Reference Service for criminology, or MEDLINE for health issues. Check the relevant category in "Database and Article Search" for a list of recommended databases for that particular subject area.
Provides extensive news coverage at any level—local, state, regional, national and international. Features the vast majority of U.S. newspapers by circulation, along with almost one thousand hard-to-find local and regional titles, and offers searchable news video clips and over two thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
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