Social Work and Counselling

Cambridge Core
Cambridge University Press publishes a wide range of high-quality academic content across Cambridge Core, including leading journals.

Cochrane Library
Database of systematic reviews, clinical trials and other evidence-based material aimed at informing healthcare research, teaching, funding, and administration.

EBSCO
EBSCO contains thousands of full-text journal articles across lots of subject areas. You can search all of the EBSCO collections at once, or limit to individual databases such as Medline or Cinahl. EBSCO also includes access to PsycINFO, the American Psychological Association’s renowned database of peer-reviewed literature in behavioural science and mental health. EBSCO video tutorials

HeinOnline
A journal database containing full-text international and US journals titles primarily regarding law and legal history.

JSTOR
Full-text access to the archive of many important journals.

Lexis+ UK
A legal database containing journals, case reports and UK legislation.

Oxford Academic Journals
A collection of more than 250 electronic journal titles from Oxford University Press with full-text access from 1996 to the latest issue for all titles.

Philpapers
Philpapers is a website that aims to be a comprehensive directory of online philosophy articles and books by academic philosophers.

Practical Law
Practical Law gives you access to practice notes giving clear, up to date explanations of the law and how it applies in practice, and also offers how-to guidance and standard documents. If you are asked to Sign in, choose the bottom option: 'Access through academic institution'. Registration for a OnePass account will be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Westlaw login help guide. Practical Law user guide. Westlaw UK help pages.

ProQuest
Access to many different resources, including the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and the Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA). ProQuest video tutorials

PsycARTICLES
This is the APA (American Psychological Association) e-journal collection.

Sage Journals
A collection of over 600 full-text international peer-reviewed journals titles, dating back to 1999 for most titles.

ScienceDirect
An e-journals collection which contains the full-text of more than 1000 journals in the life, physical, medical, technical and social sciences.

Taylor & Francis Online
A collection of over 1500 journals from Taylor & Francis Online with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.

Web of Science - Clarivate
Includes the Social Science Citation Index, Conference Proceedings, access to Journal Citation Reports and Book Citation Index. For access, if you're not automatically logged in select 'Institutional sign in', search for 'UK Federation' and 'Go to institution'. Search for 'Keele University' and log in with your Keele username and password. Registration for a Web of Science profile may be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Web of Science support page 

Westlaw UK
A full-text legal database including UK and EU legislation, case law, and journal articles. If you are asked to Sign in, choose the bottom option: 'Access through academic institution'. Registration for a OnePass account will be required the first time you access this resource - please only register using your Keele email address as accounts registered with personal email addresses will be removed. Westlaw login help guide. Westlaw UK help pages.

Wiley Online Library
A collection of over 1400 journals from Wiley's Online Library with full-text access from 1997 onwards for most titles.

VLeBooks
One of our core ebook collections with many titles relevant for counselling, social work and related disciplines.

ProQuest Ebook Central
This ebook platform is another of our core ebook collections.

European Newsstream - ProQuest
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.

Nexis
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.

The Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2011. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.

Dissertations on Library Search
Enter keywords, select 'Search Everything' then filter 'Resource Type' to 'Dissertations'.

Keele Research Repository
The Keele Research Repository is intended to be an open access (OA) showcase for the published research output of the university. Whenever possible, refereed documents accepted for publication, or finished artistic compositions presented in public, will be made available here in full digital format.

Keele Data Repository
Keele Data Repository is a digital archive of research datasets produced by Keele University staff.

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global
Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1997 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1606. For access, please login with your Keele username and password. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global help page. ProQuest status page.

EBSCO Open Dissertations
Databases with records for more than 800,000 electronic theses and dissertations from around the world. For access please login with your Keele username and password.

EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)
(Due to a cyber attack on the British Library, EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) is currently unavailable. They are working to restore the service). The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations)
Details of theses and dissertations from universities worldwide.

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) National is a TV and radio recording service and is freely available to all staff and students at Keele. Record and catch-up on programmes from 60+ TV and radio channels that have been broadcast in the last 30 days. You will need your Keele username and password to sign-in.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Use this site to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States.

Google Scholar
The most famous web search engine can search for academic journals and literature too. In Google Scholar’s settings you can also customise your results to quickly see which of them you have full-text access to through Keele Library. To get this working, before you perform your search click on settings and type 'keele' into the library links search box. Tick the Keele University – view online @Keele box, click on save preferences and you're ready to go. When you've typed in your search, any results with ‘view-online@Keele' link next to the title provide a direct link through to the article.

Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Website of the regulator for health professionals. Contains links to news and publications.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation
The website for JRF, a social policy research and development charity.

Kanopy
An on-demand streaming video platform for public and academic libraries that offers films, TV shows and documentaries. Also the new home for Psychotherapy.net psychology training videos. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page. Kanopy's Social Work Collection. Kanopy's Psychotherapy & Counselling Collection. 

Psychotherapy.net
Counselling and psychotherapy training videos, now hosted on Kanopy. For access, log in with your Keele username and password. Kanopy help page.

Reference Management Tools (RefWorks and Cite Them Right)
Access quality reference management tools provided by the Library. RefWorks allows you to save and manage all the references you use for your assignments, whether these are from books, journals, web pages or other sources, and create bibliographies. Cite Them Right helps you to reference correctly in a variety of styles, not just for standard resources such as books and journal articles, but also for resources such as statutes, patents and social networking sites. Visit our Reference management page for useful guides and help using these resources.

TRIP
Clinical Search Tool providing access to high quality clinical evidence.

UK Data Service
Explore the UK’s largest collection of social, economic and population data resources.

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The Liaison Librarian for the School of Primary, Community and Social Care is Steve Parton. If you’d like more in-depth help on using resources, want advice on how to search effectively, or want to further develop your information or digital literacy skills, you can contact Steve and ask for an appointment: s.parton@keele.ac.uk.

If you’re a PhD student or researcher at Keele you can access help and support from our Research Support Librarians. Find out more on the Research Support webpage.