Social Welfare Research Toolkit: MORE

Evidence Based Practice, to quote Professor Gambrill, is "a new educational and practice paradigm for closing the gaps between research and practice to maximize opportunities to help clients and avoid harm.”

• The Campbell Collaboration (Motto: What helps? What harms? On what evidence?) is an international research network that produces systematic reviews of the effects of social interventions.
• The California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare reports on programs being used or marketed in California.
• The Social Work Policy Institute on Evidence-Based Practice.
• The Cochrane Library indexes journal articles, reviews, and bibliographies which provide evidence-based effects of health services
• Evidence Database on Aging SWLI populates the evidence database with published studies and articles that inform and advance policy discussions regarding aging care and the role of social workers.
• SAMHSA:Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is a searchable online database of mental health and substance abuse interventions.
• Social Programs That Work: Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy.

The Social Welfare Library has print copies of dissertations, theses, and group research projects produced in the School of Social Welfare since its establishment in 1944 through 2010. Theses were submitted for masters degrees beginning in 1946. From 1948 until the early 1970s, group research projects – by groups of students under the supervision of a faculty member – were an alternative to individual masters theses. Beginning in 1960, dissertations were submitted for the DSW in social welfare, and after 1988 for the PhD.

Beginning in 2010, all dissertations at UC Berkeley were produced in electronic format only and are available through the library's online databases.

If you want to include group research projects or masters' theses in your search, you must use OskiCat, Melvyl, or WorldCat Dissertations. Other dissertation databases index only dissertations in social work at Berkeley and do not include theses or group projects.

• Call numbers for dissertations begin with HV13.A14.
• Call numbers for masters' theses begin with HV13.A135.
• Call numbers for group research projects begin with HV13.A132.

APA Handbook of Testing and Measurement in Psychology

eBooks and books with full-text scales:

• IQ and psychometric test workbook (ebook). Full-text tests for personality, aptitude and intelligence.
• Measuring Race and Ethnicity (print and ebook). Measures racial attitudes.
• Test Bibliographies with Full-text Tests. Identifies books containing full-text tests. Books are located within the EDP Library Reference Collection.
• Assessing Common Mental Health and Addiction Issues with Free-Access Instruments (EdPsych RC473 P78 S26 2013)

Online searchable sites with full-text scales:

• Center for AIDS Prevention. UCSF. Full-text instruments by topic.
• Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services. Full-text assessment instruments by topic.
• Generalized Perceived Self-Efficacy Scale (Ralf Schwarzer). Full-text scale included.
• Geriatric Depression Scale. Full-text scale included. Aging Clinical Research Center--Stanford.
• Network for Research on Experimental Psychotherapies. Full-text instruments.
• Psychological Maltreatment of Women Inventory with full-text scale. Richard Tolman--University of Michigan.
• Relationship Questionnaires and Scales. Full-text scales included. Trent University.

If an article is relevant to your topic, you want to look at the research it cited (backward citation). But it can also be very helpful to see who has cited it (forward citation). There are several different ways to do this, and the results will overlap --  no single method is comprehensive.

Google Scholar provides forward citations for some articles. It has a broader range of documents included (not just peer reviewed journals, but reports, pre-prints, etc.) and doesn't eliminate self citation or de-duplicate the results.

ISI Web of Science contains the Social Science Citation Index which allows you to do a "Cited Reference" search. This shows other articles (from a prestigious list of peer reviewed journals) which have cited the target article, and it also shows the references for the the original article... both forward and backward citation.

Screenshot below on how to get to the Cited Reference Search from the Social Science Citation Index.