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SWK 4510: Research for Evidence-Based Social Work Practice

For SWK 4510 students, and other social work students, using database search strategies to locate relevant research evidence for papers and assignments.

SWK4510 library workshop

The library workshop will help you locate the research evidence for your assignments by

Understand information search methods and reflect on your practices
Build structured and unstructured searches
Select appropriate databases for your topic
Discover articles to use in your project

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Advanced search techniques

Advanced search techniques slides
We used these slides in class to explain AND, OR, parentheses, "phrases", trancat*, and wildc?rds.
Search syntax comparison
How to use the advanced search tricks in different database platforms

Finding a journal article

Finding Articles Flowchart

What is Peer Review?
How to discover if a journal is peer reviewed.
RACER - interllibrary loan
Request articles not held at University of Toronto.