Social Work: Health & Mental Health  Tags: social_work mental_health clinical_social_work health  

Online Journal Databases provide access to summaries of journal articles that have been published on a specific discipline. Please feel free to  e-mail me if you need help coming up with keywords for your database search.

More and more of our journal subscriptions are available online. However, when you are searching a database, you may encounter an article citation that is available in a journal that we only have in print at the Chestnut Hill Campus. If that is the case, we can still get the article to you. Send us an e-mail at swlib@bc.edu, and give us the full citation of the article that you need. We will scan a copy of the article and e-mail it to you within 24 hours.

Health & Mental Health Databases

• PsycInfo
  The definitive database for finding articles related to mental health and counseling issues.
• PILOTS
  Journal literature on trauma and PTSD.
• Social Services Abstracts
  An excellent database for all aspects of social work research, including mental health, counseling, human services, social work education, and policy issues that impact social work practice.
• Medline
  A good source of articles on health policy, medical social work, and psychiatry.
• Health Reference Center
  We recommend this database if you need articles on medical issues written for a layperson.

If a database search tells you about an article but the full article's not there, don't despair.  Look for the "FindIt" button:

Integrated by the BC Libraries into many databases, "Find It" helps you get the article in one of three ways:

1. If an article cited in one database is available in full text in another online source, there will be a direct link to the full article or, in a few cases, to the journal.


2. If the journal in which an article appeared is available in hard copy in the BC Libraries, there will be a link to Quest, the BC Library Catalog. Click on that link and then on Availability to see where in the libraries you can find the specific issue.


3. If the article is not available electronically or in hard copy at BC, there will be a link to Interlibrary Loan Request, which will bring up a form through which you can request the Libraries to obtain the article for you (usually within 24 hours) from outside BC.

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