Dear All,
You may receive this more than once and if this inconveniences you, I am sorry!
I recently posted a message to lis-nursing and lis-medical to ask particularly what people thought of Community Care Online and Social Work Abstracts as databases for social work. I then posted it to lis-link but that was less successful. Most of my nine responses came from the nursing or medical lists.
Thank you if you replied. The discussion developed into a more general one about what databases people did have for social work, which was useful.
Here are the databases that were mentioned:
ASSIA, but one place had cancelled it as having too much overlap with Social Sciences Citation Index.
Community Care Inform.
Social Care Online,
Social Policy and Practice (Ovid)
Social Services Abstracts
Social Work Abstracts - one place mentioned it in a positive way, but one did not have it because it was too American, and another mentioned they had seen a less than good review of it
SocIndex (Ebsco)
Web of Knowledge
There is also a list of databases at www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/databases.asp<http://www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/databases.asp> although some things on it make me wonder how up to date it is.
There seems to be no separate social work librarians list. lis-socialscience, https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-SOCIALSCIENCE was mentioned, as was ALISS. There was concern that having a social work librarians' list would create another "silo" and that given the integration of health and social care, lis-medical would be the place.
Keith
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