Community and Youth Work: electronic resources

• Community and Youth Work subject guide[pdf] 
• Contact the Subject Librarian for Community & Youth Work: Helen Stephen

Online indexes and abstracts

Goldsmiths IT username and password required unless otherwise stated.

• ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) - health and social sciences. 1987 - current.
• Social Care Online - from Social Care Institute for Excellence, freely available.
• Social Policy and Practice - A leading source of evidence-based social science research. For policy-makers and practitioners working in social and public policy, economic development, and the social services.
• Sociological Abstracts
• PsycINFO - abstract database of psychological literature in behavioural and social sciences from 1800s to the present.
• Psychological and Behavioural Sciences Collection - full text resource, can be used in conjunction with PsycINFO.
• IBSS - International bibliography of the Social Sciences.
• Social Services Abstracts 1980-current.
• Accompline and Urbaline web - covers local government urban and social policy from the 80s to date.  Needs Internet Explorer 6.0 or above.  Password from enquiry desks.  Only available at Goldsmiths.
• ISI Citation Index - Arts and Humanities, Social Science and Science Citation Index.  1970 - present.
• British Humanities Index (BHI) Archive - humanities index, including history and philosophy.  1962 - present.

Note that staff and students on HE level courses who join Senate House library have remote access to their wide range of web resources.

Evidence based practice database

• Community Care Inform - A full text resource for professionals working with children and young people designed to help improve the quality of decisions and assessments, and help them keep up to date with research, guidance, legislation and case law.  Password from the enquiry desk.

Tutorial

• Internet Detective - a free on-line tutorial helping develop Internet research skills. It looks at the critical thinking required when using the Internet for research and offers practical advice on evaluating the quality of web sites.
• Virtual Training Suite - more on-line tutorials with subjects including: social policy, social research methods, social statistics, social work.

Community and Youth Work gateway

• BUBL - community and youth studies. Use the subject menu to find online resources in related subjects.

Community and Youth Work resources on the Internet

• British Association of Social Workers
• British Youth Council
• Centre for Disability Studies at the University of Leeds, incorporates work of former Disability Research Unit. Hosts the The Disability Archive
• Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations - based at University of Warwick. Involved in research and teaching of aspects of race, migration and ethnic relations.
• Childhoods Today - peer reviewed, multidisciplinary e-journal produced by the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth at the University of Sheffield includes: sociology, anthropology, education, geography, psychology, social policy and social welfare.
• The Children's Society
• Commission for Equality and Human Rights - new organisation bringing together the Disability Rights Commission, Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission
• Disability Unit
• Equality and Diversity Forum network of national organisations concerning age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation and broader equality and human rights issues.
• European Research Centre on Migration and Ethnic Relations - virtual library on migration and ethnic relations based at the University of Utrecht
• Friends, Families and Travellers (FFT) - a charity established in response to the 1994 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act. One of the leading organisations seeking to address the problems facing the Traveller and Gypsy community.
• The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees based at City University aiming to increase level of understanding of asylum in the UK and encourage evidence-based policy making.
• Institute of Race Relations
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation an independent non political body which supports research in housing, social care and social policy. Contains several hundred research summaries.
• Mental Health Care - from Institute of Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley NHS Trust giving information about mental health and illness, research and personal stories.
• National Council for Voluntary Organisations
• National Youth Agency
• NSPCC - National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, including NSPCC Inform - free, online child protection resource and CASPAR News - Current Awareness Service for Practice, Policy and Research.
• The Refugee Council
• ROTA - a BAME-led social policy think tank that focuses on race equality and issues affecting Britain's BAME communities.
• The Runnymede Trust - established in 1968 working against social injustice and racial discrimination.
• Third Sector Knowledge Portal - a new free to use site for research and information on the third sector (voluntary, community and social enterprise sectors) across the UK and beyond.
• SCIE Social Care Institute for Excellence - major resource centre for Social Care information. Hosts Social Care Online.
• Welfare Reform on the Web - British Library listing of social science books, government publications, research reports, policy papers etc 
• Young Carers Research Group - based at Loughborough University.

UK official publications

Use the link for details of sites holding UK official publications or sites that can be used to trace their details.

Research resources and data archives on the Internet

• The data archive houses the largest collection of computer-readable data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK, formerly known as the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) data archive.
• ESRC Society Today - new social science research data source hosted by the Economic and Social Research Council
• MIMAS Manchester Information and Associated Services access and support for many large datasets, including the 1991 and 1981 UK Census of Population Statistics, government surveys, digital map and scientific datasets.
• Sociological Research Online quarterly applied sociology journal.