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- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
Social Services Abstracts Selected Full Text
Covers current research on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
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Family & Society PLUS 
Selected Full Text
Covers research, policy and practice issues about Australian families including child abuse and child protection issues.
CINAHL: Cumulated Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature Selected Full Text
Designed to meet the information needs of nurses and allied health professionals.
'Allied Health' in the title of this index includes Social Work, and the database indexes 285 social work journals with 'Find it' links to full text articles.
MEDITEXT
Full Text
Meditext provides full-text journal articles from the 100+ Australasian medical and health journals indexed in AMI, the Australasian Medical Index. Subject coverage includes all aspects of health and medicine in Australasia such as: alternative medicine, clinical medicine, dentistry, ethics, experimental medicine, immunology, legal aspects, nursing, nutrition, occupational health, pharmacy, physiology, physiotherapy, public health, and psychology. There is an emphasis on clinical medicine and paraprofessional fields.
Indigenous Australia
This database covers the stolen generation, removal of children, arts, copyright issues, racism, discrimination, telecommunications facilities and communities.
Worth a look
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text Full Text
Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. | 
Sociological Abstracts Selected Full Text
International coverage of sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.
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Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
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Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Gale Virtual Reference Library titles include:Covering Violence
Encyclopedia of public health
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Encyclopedia of Sociology
Family in Society
Gender Issues & Sexuality
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Sage eRef titles include Encyclopedia of Counseling, Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence, Encyclopedia of Social Problems and Encyclopedia of Social Psychology.
High impact journals
The following Social Work journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Social Work:
British Journal of Social Work 1999-
Child Abuse & Neglect 1995-
Community Development Journal is in print from 1968- at P307.14/C734 and 1999-2004
Families in Society 1994-2007
Health and Social Care in the Community 1996-
Journal of Family Therapy 1979-
Journal of Social Work Practice 1997-
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 2001-2007 (Gale databases)
Social Alternatives in print at Call Number P305.8/S678 from 1978- 1995-
Social Choice and Welfare 1984-
Social Work 1998-
Social Work Research 1997-
Web sites and Internet resources
Australian Institute for Family Studies Access to Australian research and information including links to a number of clearinghouses of valuable information:
Australian Family Relationships Clearinghouse;
Communities and Families Clearinghouse Australia; and
National Child Protection Clearinghouse.
Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse. Not listed on the AIFS website, this national resource provides access to a range of resources including a Research and Resources Database. A central directory of all material on domestic and family violence produced in Australia, including formal research findings, journal articles, pamphlets, unpublished reports, training kits and videos from 2000 onwards. Also includes information on key international material and some material published prior to 2000.