Subject Guides at BU
Librarians across disciplines update and maintain a variety of Library Guides which focus on disciplinary approaches or specific subjects. A full list of these guides is available here: https://library.bu.edu/guides/.
The primary Social Work Library Guide is available here.
Library Guides for Social Work
The Library has created discipline and topic focused library guides to assist you in your research. This includes relevant databases, critical books, and other resources which can be useful in investigating your research topic. Some primary library guides for researching in social work are:
- 2SLGBTQIA+ (SSW)
- Abortion, Contraception, and Reproductive Rights
- Aging
- APA Citations (7th edition)
- Boston Data and Statistics
- Children, Youth, and Families
- Course Reserves for the School of Social Work
- Data and Statistics
- Databases for Social Work Research
- Death and Dying
- Food Justice
- Housing and Homelessness
- Immigration
- Library Resources and Services for Social Work Faculty and Instructors
- Literature Reviews in Social Work
- Mass Incarceration and Prison Abolition
- Music Therapy
- Open Access for Social Work Research
- People-First Communication
- Psychology & Brain Sciences
- Race and Justice
- Scoping Reviews in Social Work
- Social Policy
- Social Work
- Substance Use and Dependence
- Systematic Reviews in the Social Sciences
- Tests and Measures
- Women's Studies
- Youth Justice and Juvenile Court Systems
