Not all journals are created equal, and not all will be appropriate for every research need. These are the most common types of journals you are likely to encounter in your research, presented in order from most to least academic or scholarly:
For details and examples, see:
The Find It search (found on the library's home page) allows you to search most of the databases the UFV Library offers at one time. The advantages are that you search a wide universe of sources provided by the library, and that you may discover resources you might not have by searching individual databases. The downside is that it can be difficult to focus your search to resources most relevant to the practice of social work.
The following databases include scholarly articles, along with other types of sources, relevant to social work. Many of the search strategies for Find It work in these databases.
You might have noticed that all of these databases are available from the same source: EBSCOHost. At any point during your search session, you can widen your search to include more databases from the same provider:
When we are looking for information related to the practice of a discipline, we may want to focus our search in journals focused on that discipline.
Sometimes we can recognize a social work journal by its title; Canadian Social Work, for example, is pretty obvious. But sometimes we just don't know. The UFV Journals List can be very helpful in identifying these journals, as it provides lists by discipline and sub-discipline: