Finding academic literature

• Databases
  • Use the Social Work quick and detailed guides for finding databases and other resources.
  • Disseration databases
    • Dissertations and Theses Global (Search for dissertations and theses published globally) 
    • Foreign Doctoral Dissertations (Search for doctoral dissertations from outside North America)
• Library Search Box

The Library Search Box searches everything in the library catalogue (books, ebooks, journal titles, games, music, videos, government information, maps, and more!), almost all of the articles and other sources in the databases that we subscribe to.

• Setting search alerts

 

• Specialized collections
  • Indigenous Films (in our library)
• Academic journals
  • Open access
    • Directory of Open Access Journals
    • Open access at Carleton
    • ​Open access journals published at Carleton

Identifying and avoiding predatory publishers (one-page guide from the Canadian Association of Research Libraries)

Student journals

• Advocate's Forum (University of Chicago)
• Canadian Association of Social Work Education: Student article competition
• Considering Disability
• Ethics and Social Welfare: Jo Campling Memorial Prizes
• Michigan Journal of Social Work and Social Welfare

Journals recommended by faculty members

Faculty in the School of Social Work suggest the  following journals. 

• Australian Social Work
• British Journal of Social Work
• CCPA Monitor  (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
• Canadian Public Policy
• Canadian Review of Social Policy
• Canadian Social Work Review
• Child and Family Social Work
• Clinical Social Work Journal
• Critical Social Policy
• Disability and Society
• Journal of Family Social Work
• Journal of Progressive Human Services
• Native Social Work Journal
• Perception
• Policy Options
• Practice: Social Work in Action
• Social Work with Groups
• Studies in Political Economy
• Walrus

Some are available only in print; others are available in print and electronic format. Check UlrichsWeb for information about individual journals. 

Grey Literature: What is it? How to find it?

Grey literature is an important source of information in arts and social science research that:

• adds a valuable global perspective
• provides detailed overviews on specific populations
• may be only source of local information

Grey literature is defined as "information produced on all levels of government, academics, business and industry in electronic and print formats not controlled by commercial publishing" ie. where publishing is not the primary activity of the producing body."  ICGL Luxembourg definition, 1997. Expanded in New York, 2004

Types of grey literature

• Government information
• Dissertations and theses
• Conference proceedings
• Newspapers and magazines

Library resources

• Summon (change Content Type to types of grey literature such as government documents, conference proceedings etc.)
• Dissertations and Theses Global
• Google Scholar (change country, for example, to find international material)
• Government information (customized Google search)
• Databases such as Canadian Business and Current Affairs and Web of Science
• Business Source Complete (select publication type "Grey literature")
• Think Tanks

Resources

• Canadian Public Policy Collection 
• Grey Net (an international directory of organizations in Grey Literature and a respository) 
• Grey Literature Database - Canadian Evaluation Society   
• Finding the Hard to Finds: Searching for Grey Literature (University of British Columbia)

Research data management

• Consider depositing your data in Dataverse

Research ethics at Carleton University

Data analysis

• SPSS and Stata. The library offers a statistical consulting service to help students (undergraduate and graduate), faculty and other researchers in the Carleton University community with their questions regarding quantitative data. 
• NVivo.