Social Work Abstracts

ISSN: 1070-5317

Published Quarterly in March, June, September, and December

1-year print subscription: $57 for NASW members; $39 for NASW student members; $93 for individual nonmembers; $130 for libraries/institutions

For more than 30 years, NASW’s abstracting service has been the starting point for literature searches in social work and social welfare. Social Work Abstracts reviews over 500 U.S. and international journals and publishes approximately 500 abstracts in each issue. Abstracts originally published in other languages are translated into English.

Special Features:

Classification scheme under four major subject categories—Social Work Profession, Theory and Practice, Areas of Service, and Social Issues/Social Problems
Subcategories within major topics
Author and subject indexes in each issue
Annual cumulative author and subject indexes

Social Work Abstracts in print form can be used alone or as a guide to online databases with our current hosts, Ovid and EBSCO. Through our electronic partners, users are able to access abstracts to social work journal articles and citations of social work literature.

Ovid’s electronic offering is listed as Social Work Abstracts PLUS (SWAB+). Coverage is 1977-present. To request trial access to SWAB+ on the Internet Delivery Program, e-mail a request to info@ovid.com. For more information on SWAB+, call Ovid Technologies at 800-343-0064 or visit www.ovid.com.

EBSCO's electronic offering is listed on the EBSCOhost Ž platform. Coverage is 1977-present. To request trial access and find more information about this EBSCO database, visit www.ebscohost.com.

Social Work Abstracts is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.

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