Library Guides: Evidence Based Research in Social Welfare: Resources

Finding Research Based Articles

The Berkeley Libraries subscribes to hundreds of databases organized by subject and format (news, data, dissertations, etc.) Below are some of the core resources in this field.

Social Services Abstracts
Current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.

Related to the fields of social work, social welfare, human services, community development, and social policy.
PsycINFO
Core database for psychology, also social work.

Indexes journals, conference proceedings, books, reports, and dissertations in psychology and enriched with literature from psychiatry, education, business, medicine, nursing, pharmacology, law, linguistics, and social work.
Academic Search Complete
Interdisciplinary index to thousands of journals, many articles are fulltext.

Articles from broad array of peer-reviewed journals, popular and trade magazines and news sources for nearly all areas of study; available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
PILOTS
Indexes all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events.

Includes citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, and to offer both current and retrospective coverage. The Published International Literature On Traumatic Stress, is produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
PubMed
MEDLINE and other journals in the field of medicine -- includes psychiatry, geriatrics, public health,etc.

Access to citations from MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE, other journals in the field of medicine and life sciences, and links to NCBI's integrated molecular biology databases including nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
The link above goes to a specially configured version of Pubmed for UC Berkeley users. To use the free public version, please click here.
Quorum
Track current and past legislation and discover relationships among the legislators within the U.S. Congress and every state's legislature. IMPORTANT: READ THE MORE LINK FOR IMPORTANT ACCESS INFORMATION

Quorum allows you to track legislators social media posts, who legislators work with and on what topics/issues. It can also alert you when legislation moves forward. Quorum is available to Berkeley students, faculty and staff, and requires users to create a free account using their berkeley.edu email address. Limited to 20 simultaneous users. Browser ad blockers can interfere with access. If you experience this, open the site using an incognito window in Chrome.
ERIC
Topics covered include all levels of education and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, and testing. [1966 - present]

Indexes books, journals, reports, proceedings, statistical data, tests, dissertations, audiovisual materials, and ERIC documents on education research and practice.

Evidence Based Practice Resources

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.
National Guidelines Clearinghouse is a public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.
Trip Database: Searches through thousands of systematic reviews and let's you restrict by population.
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.
PubMed Clinical Queries Find systematic reviews and evidence-based research in PubMed
Embase PICO search
HealthEvidence.org: You do need to register but it's free. You can search by setting of intervention (home, school, work, etc); population, intervention strategy, etc.

Grey Literature -- Think Tanks, Non-Profits, etc.

Self-Sufficiency Research Clearinghouse -- synthesis and dissemination of research and demonstration findings on self-sufficiency, employment, and family and child well-being.
See more at:https://www.opressrc.org/about-ssrc/word-from-sponsor
See more at:https://www.opressrc.org/about-ssrc/word-from-sponsor

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Evidence Based Research in Social Welfare: Resources

What’s Your Evidence? Using Science to Strengthen Programs and Practice

Finding Research Based Articles

Evidence Based Practice Resources

Grey Literature -- Think Tanks, Non-Profits, etc.