Human Services - South Bend-Elkhart

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Best Bet: Credo Reference provides articles from over 600 titles with particular emphasis on encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks.

CQ Researcher provides in-depth coverage of the most important issues of the day. 

African American Experience (ABC-CLIO)  Developed with the guidance of African American librarians and subject specialists, The African American Experience is the widest ranging and easiest-to-use online database collection on African American history and culture.

BOOKS AND ARTICLES
You can search Discover! to finds book and articles on your topic from one search box.  Discover! searches both IvyCat (a database of all the materials in the South Bend and Elkhart libraries, including over 100,000 ebooks) and all our EBSCOand JSTOR databases for articles and books on your topic.  You can link out to ProQuest Research Library and other databases from Discover! to find more information (see right column of your result set) on your topic.

You also have access to dozens of subject-specific article databases.  See a partial list on our Articles page or explore all our databases at our A-Z List.​

DISCOVER! BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND MORE

1. Enter your term(s) in the search box.

2. Focus your search by adding terminology. 

3. Limit your search (to scholarly articles, by date, etc.) by the filters in the left column

4. Link out to other databases

Now you try! 

ProQuest Research Library 
ProQuest Research Library, like Academic Search Premier, is a general academic database.  However, it is very strong in the social sciences and a must-use database for research in the social sciences.  The same searching principles apply, though the layout is a bit different.  You can access ProQuest by linking out from a search in Discover! (see above), from the A-Z List on the library home page, or by clicking here.

DSM-5

The DSM-5 is your first stop for information about psychological conditions.

Select DSM-5 from the menu.  

On the next screen, click on the blue arrow next to Section II: Diagnostic Criteria and Codes and select the condition your are researching. 

FILMS ON DEMAND

Social Work
Counseling and Social Work
Mental Health
Psychology
Substance Abuse
Criminal Justice and Law
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Administration for Children and Families-DHHS (ACF)

• American Board of Examiners in Clinical Social Work

• American Counseling Association

• American Psychological Association (APA)

• American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)

• Clinical Social Work Federation (CSWF)

• Indiana Counseling Association

• Indiana Family and Social Services 

• National Association of Social Workers (NASW)

• National Institutes of Health

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

• National Institute on Drug Abuse

• National Organization for Human Services (NOHS)

• U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

• Human Services Research Institute (HSRI)