My name is Karen Worden and I am the Academic Support Librarian for the University of Kent, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research at the Medway Campus. I'm here to provide you with library support during your studies at Kent. I will meet some of you in the programme meetings, but you are welcome to come and speak to me about any library concerns you may have. In addition the Drill Hall Library has a regular User Group and you can read the minutes from our website.
You can contact me via the online form or telephone 01634 883208.
I hope the information on these pages will be of use to you in your studies.
Karen
Books
The Drill Hall Library catalogue contains all the books currently held in the Drill Hall Library. You need to use the catalogue to locate material in the Drill Hall. The Social Work collection covers several classmarks.
Some useful classmarks
| Counselling |
361.06 |
Social work |
361.3 |
| Practice of social work |
361.32 |
Group work |
361.4 |
| Social policy |
361.6 |
Welfare state |
361.65 |
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Information will be posted here during the term.
Print Journals
Use the library catalogue to search for printed journals held in the Drill Hall, these are shelved in the journals section and are arranged on the shelves by subject. Printed journals in the Drill Hall include:
- Adoption and Fostering
- Aging and Mental Health
- Attachment and Human Development
- Benefits 2003-2010
- British Journal of Social Work
- Child and Family Social Work
- European Journal of Social Work
- Family Relations
- Groupwork
- Health and Social Care in the Community
- Journal of Adult Protection
- Journal of Family Theory and Review
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Journal of Social Work
- Journal of Social Work Practice
- Practice
- Professional Social Work
- Qualitative Social Work
Electronic Journals
To locate an individual e-journal use the search box located at Online journals and follow the instructions. You will need your University of Kent username and password to access these journals from the Drill Hall Library or home.
Databases and E-Journal Collections
Databases
A database is a searchable collection of records many of which will link you to the full text of an article, report etc.
A full list of electronic databases available to you as a University of Kent student are available from Databases. You will need your University of Kent username and password to access these databases either from the Drill Hall Library or from home.
E-Journal Collections
An e-journal collection provides access to a range of journals. They sometimes allow you to search for a subject and so are very similar to databases. A full list of e-journal collections available to you as a University of Kent student are available from E-Journal Collections. You will need your University of Kent username and password to access these e-journal collections either from the Drill Hall Library or from home.
Here is a list of some useful databases and e-journal collections for Social work:
Academic Search Complete Contains full text for over 5500 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. This includes over 4600 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, it also contains indexing and abstracts for a further 4000 journals. Full text backfiles go back to 1975 for some titles, and indexing and abstracts go back to 1984.
Community Care Inform online reference tool for professionals working with children, young people and their families.
Guardian/Observer archive The Guardian/Observer Archive is an indispensable resource for anyone wanting to understand or learn more about the political, social, economic and cultural events of today. It offers online access to thousands of articles and features from two of the UK's leading providers of informed news and comment.
IngentaConnect Contains journals from a wide range of commercial publishers and learned societies.
JSTOR JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
Oxford University Press journals Approximately 90 titles. Mainly 1996- but you also have access to the main archives for all OUP titles.
SAGE Publications Over 100 titles on a wide range of social science topics.
Web of Knowledge Full text available for some articles using Article Linker.
Other Libraries
British Library 14 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles, 58 million patents, 3 million sound recordings and more besides.
Sconul Access SCONUL Access is a co-operative venture between most of the higher education libraries of the UK and Ireland. It enables staff, research students, full time postgraduates and part-time, distance learning and placement students to borrow material from other libraries.
Training
If you'd like some help developing your library research skills then please contact me to arrange a short training session. You can contact me by using the online form or call me on 01634 883208.
The types of training I can offer:
- Using the library catalogue and locating material
- Online search techniques
- Introduction to using databases in your subject area
