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SWK450 - Social Welfare Policies and Services - Dr. Barrick

This guide has been created to help you find information concerning important social welfare legislation and policies. It includes sources for identifying the primary documents of the legislative and legal processes as well as important resources for understanding the legislation and policies and exploring their implication for social welfare policies and programs.

Background Sources

Oxford Research Encyclopedias (Encyclopedia of Social Work)
An updated version of the standard, comprehensive encyclopedia to social work. This version is revised on a regular basis and includes enhanced bibliographies.
Sage Knowledge Ebooks
This is a very large collection of social science reference works. Many laws will have useful articles with bibliography.

Congressional Research Service Reports
Search this site by your law/act name. When available, CRS reports will provide a very helpful overview of the bill, its legislative history, and other aspects.

Secondary Sources

Ship Discovery Search
Searching on the title of your law or the public law number (i.e. 113-4) is a good starting point for key resources on your law. Topic searching will also identify a wider range of research materials.

Access on-campus or off-campus with your ShipID
ProQuest Global Newsstream
This is our comprehensive news database. This will be especially important for those having trouble finding any journal literature about your law. Try searching the title of the act, in quotation marks - for example: "hate crimes prevention act".

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SocINDEX with Full Text
Try searching your core social work database for articles on your act, or about the subject covered in your act.

Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.

Legal Resources

Westlaw
Westlaw is one of our two extensive legal databases and collections. It includes key resources from the legislative history of the acts as well as an extensive collection of law journals. Watch a brief video showing how to look up information by Public Law number.

Access from on campus or off campus with Ship ID.
HeinOnline U.S. Congressional Documents Library
Use this section of Hein Online to find congressional hearing and reports related to your law/act.
HeinOnline Law Journal Library
Use this section of HeinOnline to find law journal articles about your law and/or topic.

SWK450 - Barrick

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SWK450 - Social Welfare Policies and Services - Dr. Barrick

Background Sources

Secondary Sources

Legal Resources

Contact the Ezra Lehman Memorial Library