Selected Electronic Resources for Policy and Law in Social Work Basic Links Especially for School Social Work Legal Resources Potentially Useful Databases State Level Legal Resources Researching Intellectual Biography Electronic Newspaper Resources Other Avenues to Electronic Full Text Resources for Background Information Basic Links: UNC University Libraries Here find the the online catalog, electronic databases and journals, links to library services, and ways to chat and IM a librarian. Interlibrary Loan Link here to document delivery services. Selected Social Work Reference Sources Identify here basic research materials relevant to social work and available in Davis Library. E-mail Paula Hinton E-mail your questions to Paula. Legal Resources: LexisNexis Congressional Indexing, abstracting, and some full text of materials by and about Congress; also the US Code, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations. Thomas Legislative information on the Internet. GPO Access Free electronic access to publications of the federal government. LexisNexis Academic For legal materials, use the Legal Research category of materials. LegalTrac Provides citations to and some abstracts of an array of legal publications. State Level Legal Resources: North Carolina General Assembly Homepage Provides links to committees, Statutes, Study Reports, texts of bills in current legislative session, etc. Daily Bulletin Archives For 1987 through 2002, this website permits lookup of all bills introduced in the NC General Assembly, and for each provides a digest of the original bill and summaries of changes which followed. Lookup requires knowledge of session and bill numbers; however, the page contains a link to the NC General Assembly homepage, which provides bill text searching to identify session and bill number. LexisNexis Academic Universe For state level legal resources, click on Legal Research, then click on the type of resource sought (such as State Codes), then click on the state of interest. Full text. Electronic Newspaper Resources: LexisNexis Academic In Guided News Search, click on category (such as General News) and source (such as Major Papers). Note that searching in a particular state or region is possible in category for U. S. News. Full text. New York Times Historical Newspaper "The New York Times, in the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database, offers 3,400,000 pages of full-text and full-image newspaper articles covering the entire publishing history of the newspaper, from 1851 to 2001. Researchers can use the images to find not only news, editorials, letters to the editor, obituaries, and birth and marriage announcements, but also historical photos, stock photos, and advertisements." Newsbank: America's Newspapers "America's Newspapers features the full-text content of 11 U.S. and 14 North Carolina newspapers." Newsbank: North Carolina Newspapers "Newsbank: North Carolina Newspapers features the full-text content of 14 North Carolina newspapers, each the complete electronic edition of record." Newspaper Source Contains indexing, abstracting, and some full text. Resources for Background Information: CQ Researcher Information on current, controversial topics; bibliographies, chronologies, viewpoints. Full text. Issues and Controversies Information on current, controversial topics: chronologies, tables, maps. Full text. CQ Weekly Non-partisan legislative news and analysis. Full text. PolicyFile Public policy information from think tanks, university research organizations, research organizations, and publishers. Some full text. Quick Reference Social Sciences Polling Information Links to online sources for polling results. Rand Publication Database Papers and research reports on a range of policy issues. Full text. Especially for School Social Work: Education Full Text Covers pre-school through higher education; includes citations to book reviews. Some links to full text. ERIC Indexing and abstracting; covers journal and report literature, including conference papers; some links to full text. Note: links into E*Subscribe, which is undergoing transformation. Potentially Useful Databases: Social Services Abstracts Indexes articles, book reviews, and dissertations in social services and policy. Some links to full text. Social Work Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracting of the discipline's literature. Some links to full text. PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Indexes a variety of literature in public policy, social policy, and the social sciences. Some links to full text. PubMed Indexes publications in medicine and related health fields. Some links to full text. LexisNexis Academic News and Medical categories. Full text. Expanded Academic ASAP Indexing, abstracting, some full text; some scholarly publications, some more popular; disciplinarily varied. Some links to full text. NCLive EbscoHost Academic Search, MasterFile, CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature), Health Source. These databases may be searched simultaneously. Some full text. WorldCat Use this database to identify books and other formats of materials by or about a person or topic. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Herein identify literature in the social sciences, including the fields of anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Sociological Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracting of the broad field of sociology. Some links to full text. NASW (National Association of Social Workers) Clinical Register Directory for reference. Other discipline-specific databases such as PsycINFO may be useful, depending on the area of research interest. Resources of Potential Value in Researching Intellectual Biography: Online Catalog to see if we have books by or about the person. Social Work Abstracts Social Services Abstracts Sociological Abstracts America, History and Life This database provides indexing and abstracts of the literature of American History. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Political science, public administration, public policy, law. Some links to full text. WorldCat Use this database to identify books and other formats of materials by or about a person or topic. Biography and Genealogy Master Index Here find an index of principal reference sources of biography. New York Times Historical Newspaper The full text, including editorials and obituaries, of this newspaper from 1851 to 1999 may be search in this database. Social Sciences Citation Index Here identify works which have cited the works of another person. Philosopher's Index Indexing and abstracting from books and journals in philosophy and related fields may be found here. Dissertations and Theses Perhaps someone has written a dissertation on your biographee. Readers'Guide Retrospective Indexing for magazine and journals from 1890 to 1982 is provided in this database. Periodicals Index Online Indexing for several thousand humanities and social sciences periodicals from the title's initial volume to 1990 or thereabouts. This title is useful for identifying publications from an earlier period, as is the preceding database. Archives USA Directory of repositories and collections of primary source materials from across the US. Accessible Archives Contains the full text of some American newspapers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. American Memory, Library of Congress Find here a rich array of materials about America and Americans. Bibliographic Index Plus Indexes bibliographies appearing in periodicals and books. For bibliographies published and indexed between 1937 and 1981, use Bibliographic Index in the Reference Room at Ref. Z1002 .B593. Encyclopedia of Social Work. Ref. HV35 .S6 Older editions of this are in the stacks and may also prove valuable. A to Z of American Women Leaders. Ref. HQ 1412 .L36 2002 American National Biography. Ref. CT213 .A68 1999 Encyclopedia of Women Social Reformers. Ref. HQ1236 .R29 2001 International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Ref. H41 .I58 2001 The Pen is Ours: A Listing of Writings By and About African- American Women Before 1910 With Secondary Bibliography. Ref. Z1229 .N39 Y44 1991 Other Avenues to Electronic Full Text: Increasingly you will find links to full text in databases which traditionally have not provided links to full text. E-Journal Finder Interlibrary Loan/Document Delivery Paula Pearce Hinton, Social Sciences Reference Librarian pphinton@email.unc.edu Page URL: http://www.unc.edu/~pphinton/socialworkpolicy.html Page last updated 5/05/2006.