Social Work Electronic Resources

Social Work Gateways | Gateways to Other Libraries
Government Sources | Media & News
Statistics, [General] | Washington, D.C.

This guide provides links (indicated by type of connectivity/application in the left-hand column) to a variety of electronic resources available through the Howard University Libraries, including CD-ROMs and commercial (i.e. library subscription) databases available in the Libraries or via the HU network as well as to freely accessible Internet sources.

NOTE: Some of the best information resources in the library are NOT computerized. Printed indexes and abstracts as well as reference books may address your information need more effectively and efficiently.

Legend:

cd	=in library use only at dedicated CD-ROM workstation(s)
hu	=Howard University campus network users only per contract
www	=freely accessible "world wide web" Internet resource

Social Work Gateways Selected
hu	Associations Unlimited R (Search by subject, name, location)
www	Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
www	George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University
www	Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison
www	Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work Page
www	National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
www	Social Work Access Network (SWAN) -- maintained by the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina, SWAN has become a choice site for professionals, educators, and students searching the web for resources related to social work.
www	U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services' healthfinder
www	YAHOO!'s social work links
www	Child Welfare Resource Center
www	Bibliography of Theoretical Criminology
www	D.C. City Kids: a project of the National Children's Coalition and Streetcats Foundation
www	American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
www	Child Welfare: Gateway to Resources
Gateways to Other Libraries
www	Z39.50 compatible catalogs via Library of Congress.
www	National libraries from around the world. (International Federation of Library Associations)
www	Library catalogs indexed by Yale University
Chesapeake Information and Research Libraries Alliance (CIRLA)
Washington Research Libraries Consortium (WRLC)
Government & Intergovernmental Resources
www	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
cd	Congressional Masterfile (Founders Library)
www	FedWorld [Federal government gateway]
www	GPO Access [Government Printing Office gateway to Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, Federal Register, U.S. Budget, etc.]. Includes full-text information.
www	Thomas [Library of Congress' Legislative Research Server]. Includes full-text information.
cd	United Nations (UN) Documents, Index to (Founders Library)
www	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
www	Grants to Institutions of Higher Education
www	Social Security Handbook. Includes full-text information.
www	Ed.gov - U.S. Department of Education. Office of Educational Technology
www	Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement
Media & News
hu	Ethnic NewsWatch R A full-text collection of articles, editorials, columns, reviews from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Statistics and Data Sources
www	Directory of Health and Human Services Data Resources
cd	Fast Reference Facts (offers nearly 5,000 facts from all subject areas, from the "ready reference" files of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the St. Louis Public Library).Includes full-text information.
www	National Opinion Research Center (NORC) General Social Survey. Includes full-text information.
www	Green Book Overview of Entitlement Programs, U.S. House Ways & Means Committee. Includes full-text information.
www	Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) -- the clearinghouse for research data sets.
cd	Sociometrics Data Archives (Social Work Library) -- data files in SPSS and SAS system files with variables extraction software.
hu	STAT-USA/Internet R A service of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is the site for the U.S. business, economic and trade community, providing authoritative information from the Federal government
cd	Statistical Masterfile (Founders Library) -- Index with abstracts to data published by every major source of U.S. governmental and nongovernmental organizations and almost 100 international intergovernmental organizations (1983 to present).
cd	U.N. Women's Indicators and Statistics (Founders Library) -- Based on printed statistical compilations published by over 30 international organizations and offices of the United Nations Secretariat and covering over 200 countries and areas worldwide. Based on the Compendium of Statistics and Indicators on the Situation of Women 1986, data spans form 1970-1994 with some projections of population series and demographic indicators to 2025. Includes full-text information.
www	U.S. Bureau of the Census: [topics A to Z]. Includes full-text information.
www	U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services healthfinder [search "statistics" as a subject]
www	International Data Base (IDB) databank of statistical tables of countries and areas
www	County and City Data Books
www	ChildStats.gov: The Federal Interagency Forum on child and Family Statistics
www	Statistical Abstracts of the United States
Metro Washington D.C. Resources
www	City Maps and Directions via YAHOO! and MapQuest

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