Social work and the law
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- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information
than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
| International encyclopedia of the social & behavioral sciences | This text comprises 4,000 articles, commissioned by 52 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. Coverage includes the disciplines |
| Halsbury’s laws of Australia | Halsbury's Laws of Australia is a comprehensive legal encyclopaedia written in a clear, concise form covering all Australian law. Designed to reduce research time dramatically, Halsbury's Laws of Australia provides definitive statements of the law supporte |
| Australian master family law guide | Subject coverage includesFamily law legal system & practice,children,property,financial agreements,Financial support for children,De facto relationships and Court process, evidence and costs. |
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+"social work" +law
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For example, +"social work" +law +practice
Truncation is generally not needed as entering any version of a word will retrieve many variations.
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Databases and journal articles for Social work and the law
Use databases to search for journal articles, book chapters, conference papers or
research reports
Key databases for Social work and the law
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Databases |
Notes |
Help |
| Family & society plus | Subject coverage includes child development, adolescence, marriage and divorce, adoption, foster care, child abuse, domestic violence, family law, housing, health policy and services, population studies, social and community services, child care, family economics, employment | Indexed help available from database home page and search screen |
| AGIS plus text | A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, with some available in full text | Indexed help available from database home page and search screen |
| Social services abstracts | CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development | Comprehensive help and online tutorials available from search screen |
Complete list of Social work databases. Also check the multidisciplinary databases as they cover a wide range of academic topics. You can select other subjects from the database subject list
Full text not available?
When the full text is not available, search for the journal title in the Library
catalogue to discover if print or online copies are available
Database search tips
- Define your topic and identify the main concepts involved
For example Family breakdown and children
- Make a list of keywords for each concept
For example
Family breakdown, family relations,divorce, seperation,
Child, children, young people, adolescent
- Think about how you can combine these keywords in your search using OR, AND or
NOT
Keywords on the same concept combine with an OR
Combine different concepts with an AND
For example
Family breakdown
and
child*
- Appropriate truncation symbols can be used in databases to find variations of
a word, for example Child* finds Child, children, childcare and so on
For help with searching databases see Connecting and Combining Search Terms or Truncation/Wildcards/Phrase searching: Basic or Online training or Ask the Library
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information found on the web.
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using
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