LibGuides: Social Work and Community Welfare: Key resources

Key databases

InfoRMIT This link opens in a new window
Includes several relevant databases with Australian content: APA-Full Text, Families & Society Collection, Health Collection, Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, and Indigenous Collection.
Ebsco databases This link opens in a new window
Comprises various databases, covering a range of disciplines. Try Academic Search Premier, Humanities International Complete, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection, or CINAHL.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window
Mainly full text database, international in scope, covering a range of disciplines, including social work. Can limit to collections such as Health & Medical, Social Science or Sociology.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Full text journals in a range of disciplines, including social sciences.

Library Tutorial for Social Work and Community Welfare

Research Ready

Research Ready is a series of online learning modules that will help you to understand more about:

finding resources in the Library
what makes a 'scholarly' source
what makes a good or reliable source
what is referencing and plagiarism

The modules include videos, live webpage searching, and short quiz questions to check your knowledge. A good understanding of these topics may help you to improve your marks and save time.

Key Online Reports

Australia's Welfare 2021
Biennial AIHW report
Older People (AIHW)
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare website with various reports and data relating to older Australians.
Working together: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mental Health and Wellbeing Principles and Practice
This book is intended for staff and students and all who work in areas that support Indigenous mental health and wellbeing. It offers a comprehensive examination of issues and strategies influencing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander mental health and social and emotional wellbeing.
Children & Youth (AIHW)
Australian Institute of Health & Welfare website with various reports and data relating to children & young people.

Recent titles

Community-led research: walking new pathways together by Victoria Rawlings, James Flexner, Lynette Riley (editors)
Publication Date: 2021
Shared Trauma, Shared Resilience During a Pandemic by Carol Tosone (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020
The road to social work and human service practice by Lesley Chenoweth & Donna McAuliffe
Publication Date: 2020 (6th ed)
Social Work and Health Care Practice with Transgender and Nonbinary Individuals and Communities by Shanna K. Kattari (Editor); M. Killian Kinney (Editor); Leonardo Kattari (Editor); N. Eugene Walls (Editor)
Publication Date: 2020