LibGuides: Social work: Journals

Recommended journals and magazines

Searching for journal articles video

Searching for journals by title video

Searching our journals collection with Browzine

LibKey Nomad web browser extension

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LibKey Nomad is a browser extension you can use to link to full text content provided by the library, from different research sites.

Find out more by watching the short video which explains how the extension works.

Journals and magazines

What are journals?

Journals are academic magazines. Most of our journals are available online. A small number of titles, mainly more professionally focused magazines, are available in print.

Journals are

published daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly - therefore the material is up to date
generally the first place that scholarly research is published
often 'peer reviewed', this means that articles have been critically reviewed by experts prior to being published.

SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
SocINDEX with Full Text provides 777 full text journals in addition to approximately 14000 full text conference papers and 820 full text books.
Most of the full text journals are sociology related journals, but SocINDEX with Full Text also provides many psychology and social work journals.
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Science Direct This link opens in a new window
15,000+ journals in the Science / Social Science related fields (computing, business management, psychology, health, sociology, environment, biology). Full-text coverage of the last 5 years.
- Go to Science Direct (general login)
- Go to Science Direct (use this link and go to Sign In at the top of the page to use personalised features)
- Accessibility statement and help
SCOPUS This link opens in a new window
Scopus is a large abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature published as journal articles, books and conference proceedings. See more.. for login instructions to use personalisation features.
Scopus provides smart tools to track, analyse and visualise research content and affiliation criteria. Searching Scopus should be part of your literature research process.
To use personalisation features please use the link below
1. Go to SCOPUS
2. Select Sign In at the top of the screen
3. Select 'Sign in via your institution'
4. Select University of Gloucestershire and enter your normal university login details

ConnectedPapers
Creates a visual map of published research, shows links between papers containing references. 5 free maps per month.
Elicit
A free AI literature search tool using similar natural language searching Displays and summarises relevant papers. See FAQ.
GoogleScholar
Searches scholarly materials. Use Settings to select the Library Links to access content to which the UoG Library subscribes.
SemanticScholar
Searches and retrieves scholarly publications based on the importance and relevance of cited papers using machine learning techniques.

ResearchRabbit

Conference papers

What about conference proceedings?

This is a collection of research papers delivered at a conference or symposium. Proceedings are available both from UoG search tools such as Library Discovery, SCOPUS, as well from services like GoogleScholar and SemanticScholar.

Library Discovery

Referencing journal articles

Referencing Journal articles - UoG Harvard

Using the Inter-Library Loan service

Article not in library?

Use the Inter-Library Loan (ILL) service to obtain journal articles not held by the university. Primarily for final year undergrad students, postgrads, researchers or academics. Staff and students have an initial allocation of free requests. More information is available in the Guide to Inter-Library Loans.