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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.
The major index for scholarly literature in psychology from the 1800’s to the present. PsycInfo includes material of relevance to practitioners, researchers and students.
CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database provides indexing for more than 3,000 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health.
Focuses on the 50+ population and issues of aging. Covers social gerontology and includes aging-related content from the health sciences, psychology, sociology, social work, etc.
Covers Native North American culture, history, and life. It contains eBooks, essays, journal, magazine and news articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada.
Full-text articles, ebooks, theses, and government publications, with a primary focus on Indigenous peoples of Canada and a secondary focus on North American materials and beyond.
Includes Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR), and Cochrane Clinical Answers. The Wiley platform is appropriate for systematic and scoping reviews as well as other advanced searches.
An international research network that prepares and disseminates high quality systematic reviews of effects of social science evidence in education, crime and justice, and social welfare. Freely available online.
For more databases, look at the Subject A-Z Databases List.
Database tips
We focus on subject-specific databases for this assignment. The University of Toronto has many subject-specific databases. The PDF chart (link below) provides an overview of how these databases are organized.
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