Edens Library Databases:
Open Access Databases:
Explore the nation's largest federally funded collection of child welfare related resources. Find peer-reviewed journal articles, reports, books, and more
Provides access to many online health-related articles under the “find research” section on the left.
Unemployment statistics.
Sub-unit of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and the Administration for Children & Families. Provides data on a variety of topics, including adoption, foster care, and child abuse and neglect.
Provided by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children & Families, the Child Welfare Information Gateway offers a library of articles on child welfare and adoption issues.
Statistics from more than 100 agencies are available through this site.
A nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world through public opinion polling, demographic research, and other data-driven social science research.
“Provides an introduction to key issues as well as in-depth information on poverty measurement, monitoring, analysis, and on poverty reduction strategies for researchers and practitioners.” Includes an online Library.
South Carolina Department of Public Health
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Provided by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Administration for Children & Families, the Child Welfare Information Gateway offers a library of articles on child welfare and adoption issues.
An excellent freely available bibliographic database sponsored by the Department of Education and the Institute of Education Sciences. Many of the top social work journals are indexed in ERIC and some articles are available as full-text PDF files. Others can be received by using interlibrary loan services from your local library.
The Green Book is published by the House Ways & Means Committee to provide background information and data on government programs under the jurisdiction of this committee. It includes succinct information on Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, Medicare, Social Services Block Grants and other benefits programs important to social work.
The Department of Health and Human Services provides this site to review and assess evidence of effectiveness of home visiting program models that target families with pregnant women and children from birth to age 5. It is a collection of research evidence and model programs related to home visits.
DataLab is a platform of web-based tools that provide the public with access to data collected by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
This database contains summaries and citations for more than 200,000 publications on juvenile justice, family violence, drugs and crime, rape, gang crimes and other criminal justice issues. Citations are available from research reports, journal articles, books, and unpublished research. All research is available from the NCJRS Library, using either interlibrary loan or the library's fee-based photocopying service.
From the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: a searchable online registry of mental health and substance abuse interventions that have been reviewed and rated by independent reviewers. As of July 5, 2010 this registry had 164 interventions reviewed.
The U.S. Census Bureau's gateway to find demographic and economic information, data, and maps from U.S. Federal decennial censuses and the American Community Survey.
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