SWK 640: Issues in Social Welfare Policy in Advanced Generalist Practice Spring 2008 Course Guide

Introduction to Library Research 

Provides an overview of using URSUS, Fogler Library's catalog

Finding International Information
 

Links to International Social Work Related Sites (University of Connecticut)

Print Sources

Encyclopedia of AIDS - Ref RA 644 .A25 E53

Encyclopedia of Homelessness - Ref HV 4493 .E53

Encyclopedia of Public Health - Ref RA 423 .E53

Encyclopedia of World Poverty - Ref HV 12 .E54

Europa Regional Surveys of the World

Africa South of the Sahara - Southern Hemisphere Ref DT 3551 .A37

Central and South-Eastern Europe - Ref D 2 .R44

Eastern Europe, Russia & Central Asia - Ref D 2 .R44

Far East & Australasia - Middle East/Asia Ref D 2 .R44

Middle East & North Africa - Middle East/Asia Ref D 2 .R44

South America, Central American & the Caribbean - Southern Hemisphere Ref F 1406.5 .S68

Western Europe - Ref D 2 .R44

Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide - Ref HQ 1115 .G74

Statistical Handbook on the Social Safety Net - Ref HV 51 .P33

Statistical Handbook on the World's Children - Ref HQ 767.9 .K38

World at Risk - Ref JF 1242 .W67

World Economic Factbook - Business Ref HC 59.15 .W67

Finding Background on Maine Policy

Maine Legislature Bill Status Search - can search back to 2001

Maine State Agencies - links by name of agency

Law Subject Guide - includes info on Maine legislative history

Maine Newsstand - full text to the Bangor Daily News and the Portland Press Herald

Special Collections Department - 3rd floor of Fogler Library, where Maine materials are located

Finding Articles

Social Services Abstracts - an index to Social Work journals

PAIS International - an index to many kinds of policy-related materials

These databases are linked with Article Linker, which allows you to automatically check URSUS for electronic and/or print subscriptions. 

Interlibrary Loan - use for journal articles we do not have access to

To contact a Reference Librarian with questions, click here: Ask-a-Librarian. 
Nancy.Lewis@umit.maine.edu | Revised: 02/18/2008

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