LibGuides: Social Work: Help with Searching

Summon

Summon is a good starting point for most research - it is a one stop shop encompassing books, e-books, newspaper and journal articles, conference proceedings and dissertations.

If you need help with using Summon, please come to the Subject Enquiries Desk on Floor 4 of the Library, email or call the HHS subject team or use our online help guide:

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COPES - searching for Evidence Based Practice material

Client Oriented Practical Evidence Search (COPES)
This website helps students and practitioners in the helping professions formulate Client Oriented Practical Evidence Search (COPES) questions which can then be used to search for relevant literature.

Law for non-lawyers

Guide to the law for non-lawyers
This useful guide will get you started with doing legal research and understanding the different types of legal documents. Written by our law librarian, the guide explains the basics of legal research and gives non-lawyers an overview of the top legal resources.

Database help

Community Care Inform User Guide
Includes a video introduction to get you started and covers all aspects of searching and browsing.
Community Care Inform Training
This training session was delivered by Aisling Philip from Community Care Inform in January 2022. It lasts around 45 minutes and gives a detailed overview of both the Children and Families and the Adults resource.
Scopus screencasts and tutorials
Covers topics such as searching for articles, author profiles and affiliations, also creating alerts and cited reference searching.

Subject guides

Social Work: Help with Searching

Summon

Summon search video

COPES - searching for Evidence Based Practice material

Law for non-lawyers

Database help