Social Work: Find Articles
Find Articles
Use online databases to find electronic articles in journals, newspapers and magazines. You can search for periodical articles by the article author, title or keyword by using databases in your subject area.
To access A-Z list of journal titles, click here.
Online Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate (ASU) This link opens in a new window
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Academic Search Ultimate is a multidisciplinary database covering a wide array of subjects including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language & linguistics, arts & literature, medicine, ethnic studies. The database includes magazines, peer reviewed and scholarly journals, trade publications and more with coverage dating back to 1890.
- Cambridge Core This link opens in a new window
- Directory Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window
- Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
Here are some useful guides for you to start off. You may also opt to view the tutorial videos related to some of the databases recommended above.
Interlending and Document Supply Service
The Interlending and Document Supply (ILDS) service provides you with materials in an electronic or print format that are not available in the Library’s resources and collections.
Open Access Resources
- QScience.com This link opens in a new window
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Qscience.com is a peer-reviewed online publishing platform that provides a growing range of peer-reviewed open access journals in medicine and bioscience, healthcare, social science, Islamic studies, and engineering.
- CORE This link opens in a new window
CORE is the largest global aggregator of full text open access scientific content from repositories and journals with a dataset of full text papers reaching 49TB. As of May 2018, CORE has aggregated over 131 million article metadata records, 93 million abstracts, 11 million hosted and validated full texts, and over 78 million direct links to research papers hosted on other websites. CORE is a jointly run service between The Open University and Joint Information Systems Committee (Jisc).
- BASE This link opens in a new window
BASE is one of the world's biggest search engines for academic web resources as it provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5,000 sources. While a portion of the content in this database is subject to license, full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents are accessible for free (Open Access).
- QSpaceThe Qatar University (QU) institutional repository aims to increase the visibility of the original research and scholarly works of the QU community on a local and global level, capture the academic activities of QU, facilitate institutional academic achievement, and provide a permanent portal of access to resources for the QU community.
Newspapers and Magazines
- PressReader This link opens in a new window
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PressReader is a journalism and media platform that partners with thousands of the world’s newspaper and magazine publishers from +100 countries in 60 languages, available on desktop computers, tablets and smartphones.
Here are some useful sources on how to use the recommended databases above.