Using and Evaluating Information Sources

• The Spider's Apprentice: How to Use Web Search Engines
• The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly: or, Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Resources
• How to Evaluate the Sources You Find
• Distinguishing Scholarly Journals from Other Periodicals

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 4th ed. (R808.06615 P976 1994)
• Using American Psychological Association (APA) Format - from Purdue University
• Bibliography Styles Handbook - from the University of Illinois

NOTE:
Links to library resources listed below may not work when this page is accessed from off-campus. To use these resources, please go to the Library Web Page, where you can connect to Articles and Databases, Reference Sources, and Electronic Journals and Newspapers after providing your Elmhurst College email login and password. If you do not know your E.C. account login and password, please see Computer Services, Room 107 CSTC.

Articles and Databases

The three databases below all include coverage of several social work journals, in addition to covering other topics in social sciences. You will have the best results if you search in more than one of the databases on your topic. Each database also contains several social work journals in full text.

• Academic Search Elite
• Periodical Abstracts
• Wilson Select

Social Work: an empowering profession  is the companion Web site to the textbook for this course. Each chapter contains links to relevant Web sites.

The Social Worker's Internet Handbook (library call number 025.063 G678s) is a book on Internet uses for social workers. It includes Web sites, email distribution lists, and discussion of legal and ethical issues relating to Internet use in social work.

Web Sites of Interest to Social Workers is a listing of many of the sites included in the Social Worker's Internet Handbook. This list was created by the publishers of The New Social Worker, a magazine for social work students.

A Guide to Internet Resources in Social Work is a listing of the sites available from the book Quick Guide to the Internet for Social Work. This site does a good job of arranging the list by areas of practice, and each site is briefly described.

Gateways to Social Work/Welfare on the Net - an article written by an academic librarian at the University of Illinois. This article is full of links to general guides, social work libraries, organizations and bibliographies.

National Association of Social Workers

NASW Illinois Chapter