Journals are generally more current than books and more specific in their focus. Many academic journals are peer-reviewed, meaning they are evaluated by other experts in the same field before publication. This makes them a good quality source of academic information.
You can access thousands of journals through the Library, most of these online: we subscribe to over 67,000 journals electronically. You'll find lots of articles about Social Work on Library Search. You can also look more systematically for journal literature by using our subject databases.
Look up journal titles on Library Search to check our access and holdings or use our ejournals A-Z list. Useful titles include the following:
British Journal of Social Work
Children and Youth Services Review
Child Abuse Review
Child and Family Social Work
Children and Youth Services Review
Critical and Radical Social Work
European Journal of Social Work
Journal of Adult Protection
Journal of Family Social Work
Journal of Social Work
Journal of Social Work Practice
Qualitative Social Work
Research on Social Work Practice
Social Work Education
Social Work in Mental Health
Social Work with Groups
Google Scholar is an academic search engine which indexes books, journal articles, and other scholarly materials. It is multidisciplinary, with a good coverage of economics, although with some US bias. It includes links to full-text documents including open access materials. To improve access, set Library Links to University of Warwick in the Settings. Google Scholar also includes citation information and allows you to find related literature.