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Choosing a Database for Social Work: A Comparison of Social Work Abstracts and Social Service Abstracts
Robert K. Flatleya, , Rick Lillab, and Jack Widnerc,
aRobert K. Flatley is Electronic Resources and Periodicals Librarian, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, USA
bRick Lilla, Media Services Librarian, Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, PA, USA
cJack Widner is Reference Librarian, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA, USA
Available online 17 October 2006.
Abstract
This study compared Social Work Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts databases in terms of indexing, journal coverage, and searches. The authors interviewed editors, analyzed journal coverage, and compared searches. It was determined that the databases complement one another more than compete. The authors conclude with some considerations.
Article Outline
Introduction
Social Work Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts
Supporting Social Work Programs
Comparison of Journals
Comparison of Searches
Discussion
Conclusions and Considerations for Libraries
The Search Engine that Drives It
The Scope of each University's Social Work Program
Audience
Local Administrator Module
References
Introduction
The literature of social work has had for many years two competing indexes for use by researchers in the discipline. Libraries, whether by choice or by reduced budgets, are usually forced to choose just one of them. The existence of two, coupled with a new interdisciplinary index from EBSCO (SocINDEX and SocINDEX with Fulltext) that was released in April of 2005, warrants a closer look at the breadth of coverage in the discipline of Social Work. In this article, we attempt to look at the rationale for their indexing and test them for comparison purposes.
Social Work Abstracts
The first database in our comparative analysis, Social Work Abstracts (SWA), sees its distinctiveness in being the one produced and funded by The National Association of Social Workers (NASW), and the one which has established itself as the oldest and most easily recognized abstracting service for social workers. Originally called Social Work Research and Abstracts, it was borne out of a perceived need in the late 1950s to encourage research in the social work field. The same decade held a keen debate about what constituted “social work research” and soon the seeds were sown for a drive to become a “research-oriented profession.”1 SWA has been in existence for more than thirty years, reviewing over 400 journals in the field of social work, fifty of which are core titles. “Core” in the world of indexers is defined as cover to cover indexing. Although SWA does not have a controlled vocabulary by which users can go to a thesaurus to find the preferred or correct term to use when conducting a search, it does have a classification scheme that is divided into four basic parts: Social Work Profession, Theory and Practice, Areas of Service, and Social Issues and Problems.2 Each of these parts has between eight and nine sub-categories in them. Between 20 and 30 percent of the articles that SWA indexes do not come with abstracts attached which means that roughly about 150 articles per quarter or fifty per month need to be examined and abstracts provided. SWA also has an additional feature which takes advantage of its affiliation to the NASW in providing a register of social workers, amounting to an additional 28,000 records. The print version which comes out quarterly includes about 450 abstracts in each issue. SWA also is available in a CD ROM format as well as a Web version that uses Silver Platter as its search engine, although, according to Alfredda Payne, its managing editor, they are exploring the possibility of making it available on other search engines as well. Payne has worked for SWA for the past eighteen years, holding Masters in library science and having prior experience at the Library of Congress. But her past eighteen years have been devoted to the exclusive world of social work and SWA. Along with Aneatha Robinson and one half-time position, this sparse crew makes up the entire staff of SWA. With such a small staff, it is tempting to speculate that they have chosen a path of keeping their costs affordable (annual print version of SWA currently runs $37 for students, $54 for members, and $125 for libraries) rather than raising their subscription fees to expand their staff and increase their journal coverage. SWA continues to do what it has done since 1964: put out an inexpensive quarterly abstracting publication built around the fifty or so core U.S. social work journals. SWA now updates their online database quarterly, adding about 450 new abstracts per update. All articles chosen are in English. From these titles, SWA follows a classification scheme that delineates four categories with a number of sub-categories. SWA does not index letters to editors, but does index book reviews and select dissertations.
Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts, produced by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), was created in 1999, taking the place of an earlier CSA effort called Social Planning/Policy and Social Development Abstracts (SOPODA). SOPODA was founded in 1979, first making its appearance as a print publication and then eventually released as a sub file (SF = SOPODA) within the electronic version of Sociological Abstracts. Its mission was to provide scholars with access to literature addressing the issues of social work and welfare, social policy, and social development. It changed its name in 1984 to the slightly less cumbersome Social Planning/Policy and Development. It sought out articles that addressed specific helping techniques, interventions, and articles whose emphasis was on solving social problems. It also took on the area of social policy as it related to housing, communication, education, the environment, and transportation. By the late 1990s, CSA came to realize that it had not done an adequate job promoting SOPODA, and most likely came to realize that SOPODA was not the most user-friendly acronym for a social work database. So in 1999, CSA moved most of the SOPODA content from Sociological Abstracts and with it created Social Services Abstracts.3 They also refined the scope of its content to include only social work, social services, and social policy. The content area of social development remained with Sociological Abstracts. Jill Blaemers, the managing editor of SSA, sees its distinctiveness in several ways. First, in terms of sheer numbers, SSA provides abstracts and indexing for over 1300 journals, eighty-five of which are core titles. Their annual number of records added is around 5500 versus SWA's 1800, and their total number of records (as of February, 2006) was 107,000 verses SWA's 51,000. Part of this larger number is due to SSA's inclusion of book review citations which SWA does not include. Second, SSA is much more international in its coverage than SWA. Blaemer said that their company's founder had a strong commitment to international coverage and a 2001 conference presentation by CSA stated that a full 50 percent of its content comes from international sources, 38 percent of which come from Western Europe. Any time spent searching SSA will quickly reveal a very large number of studies from outside the United States. Third, SSA has an authoritative thesaurus, developed originally for Sociological Abstracts, and designed to cover both the literature of sociology and social work. Fourth, since 2004, SSA has included cited references in its citations, which provide a means of identifying how many times an author or article has been cited. It can also quickly identify who is working on similar research and find other documents related to that topic. With regard to NASW's Register of Social Workers, SSA came up with what it calls Community of Scholars: Social Sciences. It is a database of more than 100,000 active social science scholars and organizations from around the world, together with their affiliation and publication information. Finding international faculty who are at four-year universities, this Community of Scholars can, through keyword searching “access the community behind the content” said Blaemers. “With access to this new community content and feature set, researchers can expand their search for relevant information beyond the document record to the relevant set of people and organizations working to increase knowledge in highly specific areas of interest.” Finally, SSA includes a Web resources database of 69,000 editorial-selected Web sites closely aligned to the social sciences.4
While SWA has two and a half editor/indexers, SSA has nine. But unlike the SWA staff who are exclusively devoted to just one abstract/database, the staff at CSA has to divide their duties between SSA and four other databases: CSA Sociological Abstracts, Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts, CSA World Wide Political Science Abstracts, and PAIS International. Their method is to assign one lead person to a database who will then manage the list of journals, classification, and controlled vocabulary for that database. The person this is given to will be required to have a bachelors or masters degree within that subject. There is a supervising editor for the social sciences and a resource specialist who oversees production. Editors train new indexers in a variety of ways, but to keep the process as consistent as possible, every document is reviewed by at least three people.4
SSA has created a selection and coverage policy, by which they determine the journals which are to be considered core, priority, or selective. For a journal to be given core “100 percent coverage, it has to either have the term “social work” in its title, or else be published by a social work association, group, faculty, or institution.” Priority journals, which are given more than 50 percent coverage, are added from related fields: gerontology, child welfare, mental health, and which repeatedly address topics related to social service professionals. Selective coverage comes from journals that occasionally publish work by social workers or for the social work field. Less than 50 percent coverage is the norm here. These categories can change over time as the lead person mentioned above monitors these publications, paying close attention to the affiliation of its authors, reference lists, and the content itself.4
One advantage that Blaemers felt SSA had over SWA was that SSA was created and maintained on CSA's own search engine. Because of this, SSA indexers had much more flexibility in adding enhancements to their database than SWA, which continues to exist as a print publication, and having to follow the guidelines set by Silver Platter's search engine.4
One key difference between the two indexes is the fact that 50 percent of SSA’s journals are international. The classification scheme from SSA (see note) reflects this international dimension; codes encompass broader terminology than SWA, partly out of necessity. For example, “social work in international development” is not found explicitly in SWA. AIDS is a class code in SSA whereas SWA does not get that specific.
Updates to SSA are monthly. As of December 2005, SSA claimed to have 107,000 records. They also index over thirty-one different language publications, but translate these in English.
Supporting Social Work Programs
Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) library cooperative is called the Keystone Library Network (KLN). In 2003, the KLN purchased a subscription to SSA after some years with SWA. In 2005, however, that was dropped in favor of the newly created EBSCO database called SocINDEX with Fulltext. Since then, some faculty in our respective Social Work departments have complained about the lack of a database exclusively designed for social work, and have asked that libraries reconsider a purchase of either SWA or SSA. The PASSHE has three MSW programs in its fourteen member universities (another one is currently in candidacy) as well as ten undergraduate programs. Each program is subject to an accreditation review by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). Guidelines by CSWE insofar as library collections are not specific about numbers or size of collections, but simply state that:
“The program has comprehensive library holdings and electronic access, as well as other informational and educational resources necessary for achieving the program's goals and objectives.”5
Lacking clear guidelines, it is generally accepted that research is crucial to encourage life-long information-seeking skills for both students and faculty. This is certainly the case for a master's program; it is also the reason why the NASW pushed for a research-based discipline in the fifties and this continues to be relevant.1 What criteria should we apply to our choices? What have we found about differences between the two products? And how do these findings affect acquisition of one over the other?
Comparison of Journals
During the spring semester 2005, a comparison of the journals indexed in both products was completed. Our research determined that SWA indexes 330 journal titles compared to 1532 titles by SSA. Of these titles, it was determined that both products index all forty-six titles that are defined as “core titles” by SWA with the exception of Behaviour Research and Therapy. SSA does not index this title. A total of 148 “non-core” titles were indexed by both. Lastly, there were a total of 136 unique titles indexed by SWA compared to 1339 unique titles in SSA. However, after a close examination of these 1339 titles, it was determined that only 445 had any relationship to social work. See Table 1 for a summary of these results.
Table 1.
Comparison of Journals Indexed by SWA and SSA Total Journalsa Core Titles Unique Social Work Related
SWA 330 46 136 330
SSA 1532 45 894 445
a As of March 28, 2005.
Comparison of Searches
A member of the social work faculty at Kutztown University was contacted to provide sample search terms. A number of searches were conducted using various terms. Eventually it was decided to use the terms “general systems theory” and “brief therapy” to compare the results of the two databases. Separate keyword phrase searches were conducted using the basic search mode of each database. No limiters were used. So the results included both journal articles and dissertations. The results were sorted by descending date and were printed out and compared. The searches were conducted on March 28, 2005.
The “general systems theory” search was analyzed first. There were twenty-nine hits in SWA compared to thirty-one in SSA. This included eight hits that appear in both databases; twenty-one unique hits in SWA; and twenty-three unique hits in SSA. The eight hits that appeared in both databases were all journal articles. The unique hits in SWA included fifteen articles and six dissertations; in SSA the unique hits included nineteen articles and four dissertations. The dates of the hits in SWA ranged from 1978 to 2000 whereas in SSA the dates ranged from 1978 to 2002. See Table 2 for a summary and Table 3 for a complete list of the results organized by citation.
Table 2.
General Systems Theory Search Summary Total Hits Hits in Both Unique Hits # Unique Hits Articles # Unique Hits Dissertations
SWA 29 8 21 15 6
SSA 31 8 23 19 4
Table 3.
General Systems Theory Results Organized by Journal Citation Both SWA only SSA only
AN: Record #
Journal of Social Work Education 36(2): 215–230, 2000 Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 16(2): 113–125, 1990 Family Process 41(2): 159–197
Groupwork 9(3): 259–282, 1997 Social Thought 14(1): 16–29, 1988 Family Process 41(3): 285–312
Social Work with Groups 14(3/4): 35–51, 1991 Social Work 31(3): 225–226, 1986 Journal of Feminist Family Therapy 14(2): 21–50
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 8(2): 51–58, 1982 Social Casework: the Journal of Contemporary Social Work 66(9): 556–562, 1985 Dissertation Abstracts International 62(3): 1209–A
Canadian Journal of Family Law 3(4): 339–67, 1980 Family Process 24(1): 79–88, 1985 Journal of Family Therapy 22(1): 6–28
Journal of Divorce 4(2): 1–20, 1980 White Cloud Journal 3(1): 43–52, 18–983 Dissertation Abstracts International 60(7): 2676–A
Social Service Review 52(4): 535–50, 1978 Psychosomatics 23(1): 15–19, 1982 Dissertation Abstracts International 60(4): 1329–A
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 5(3): 374–86, 1978 Family Process 19(1): 65–71, 1980 Dissertation Abstracts International 54(7): 3734–A
Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 6(2): 144–153, 1979 International Social Work 36(1): 21–36
Australian Social Work 31(3): 3–14, 1978 The American Journal of Family Therapy 19(1): 19–31
Archives of General Psychiatry 35(4): 450–455, 1978 The American Journal of Family Therapy 17(1): 57–65
Journal of Creative Behavior 11(1): 1–72, 1977 Practice 1(1): 5–13
Canadian Journal of Social Work Education 3(2): 28–39, 1977 Psychiatric Journal of the University of Ottawa 11(2): 58–61
British Journal of Social Work 6(1): 23–42, 1976 Social Casework 66(8): 490–497
Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling 2(4): 317–329, 1976 Urban Studies 19(3): 221–233
University of Texas PhD (Dec 1993) Dec-93 Journal of Economic Issues 16(2): 381–390
Pittsburgh PhD (Aug 1982) Aug-82 International Journal of General Systems 8(2): 93–108
Texas, Arlington PhD (Dec 1979) Dec-79 Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 8(4): 698–709
Toronto DSW (Nov 1979) Nov-79 Behavioral Science 26(3): 281–293
Denver DSW (Aug 1978) Aug-78 Small Group Behavior 11(2): 145–174
Denver DSW (June 1978) Jun-78 Journal of Family Therapy 1(4): 383–395
Society 16(5): 40–44
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy 5(2): 87–94
The “brief therapy” search was analyzed next. There were sixty-two hits in SWA compared to eighty-five in SSA. This included seventeen hits that appear in both databases; forty-three unique hits in SWA; and sixty-eight unique hits in SSA. The seventeen hits that appeared in both databases were all journal articles. The unique hits in SWA were all journal articles; in SSA the unique hits included eighty-three articles and two dissertations. The dates of the hits in SWA ranged from 1979 to 2003 whereas in SSA the dates ranged from 1978 to 2004. See Table 4 for a summary and Table 5 for a complete list of the results organized by citation.
Table 4.
Brief Therapy Search Summary Total Hits Hits in Both Unique Hits # Unique Hits Articles # Unique Hits Dissertations
SWA 62 17 43 62 0
SSA 85 17 68 83 2
Table 5.
Brief Therapy Results Organized by Journal Citation. Both SWA Only SSA Only
AN: Record #
Contemporary Family Therapy 24(3): 475–481, September, 2002 Journal of Social Work in the Addictions 3(4): 53–71, 2003 Journal of Brief Therapy 2(1): 43–51,
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2): 113–129, Spg/Sum 2002 Marriage and Family 5(1): 39–45, 2002 Journal of Family Therapy 25(3): 263–284
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2): 141–154, Spg/Sum 2002 Behavioral Research and Therapy 40(12): 1385–1402, December 2002 Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling 4(1): 25–29
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2): 101–111, Spg/Sum 2002 British Journal of Psychotherapy 18(2): 169–183, Winter 2001 Group Analysis 28(4): 443–452
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2): 155–162, Spg/Sum 2002 The Drug and Alcohol Professional 1(1): 13–16, October 2001 Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 12(1): 45–56
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2):91–100, Spg/Sum 2002 Social Work in Health Care 31(4): 1–23, 2002 Child Care in Practice 10(1): 63–77
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2):131–140 Spg/Sum 2002 American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 71(2): 227–235, April 2001 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 24(1): 15–25
Journal of Brief Therapy 1(2)101–112, Spg/Sum 2002 Behavioral Research and Therapy 39(6): 713–720, June 2001 Journal of Brief Therapy 2(2): 101–108
Children and Schools 23(1): 33–47, January 2001 Clinical Social Work Journal 29(3): 291–306, Fall 2001 Community Mental Health Journal 26(2): 139–149
Family Relations 49(2): 165–168, April 2000 Psychoanalytic Social Work 7(2): 1–24, 2000 International Journal of Family Counseling 6(1): 17–30
Families in Society 80(5): 468–477, September–October 1999 Psychoanalytic Social Work 6(3/4): 1–6, 1999 Journal of Family Therapy 19(2): 121–124
Social Work in Education 20(4): 261–268, October 1998 Social Work in Education 22(1): 54–61, January 2000 Journal of Family Psychotherapy 14(4): 45–52
Journal of Marital and Family therapy 19(1): 31–38, January 1993 Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 13(1): 15–38, 1998 Conflict Resolution Quarterly 19(3): 269–287
The Social Worker Le Travailleur Social 60(2): 115–120, Summer 1992 Journal of Multicultural Social Work 6(3/4): 111–122, 1997 Journal of Brief Therapy 2(1): 63–72
Journal of Marital and Family therapy 18(1): 71–82, January 1992 Journal of Family Psychotherapy 8(4): 71–76, 1997 Journal of Brief Therapy 1(1): 51–66
Journal of Independent Social Work 4(2): 5–19, 1989 Substance Abuse 18(3): 95–103, September 1997 The American Journal of Family Therapy 31(4): 281–293
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 105–115, March 1997 Social Service Review 63(3): 483–485
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 23–39, March 1997 Professional Development: the International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education 2(3): 36
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 117–132, March 1997 Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 16(1–2): 135–151
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 133–141, March 1997 Research on Social Work Practice 14(2): 102–111
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 81–88, March 1997 Family Process 23(1): 101–106
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 5–22, March 1997 Journal of Family Therapy 14(2): 145–161
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 89–103, March 1997 Journal of Brief Therapy 1(1): 7–16
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 49–62, March 1997 The American Journal of Family Therapy 17(1): 79–80
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 41–48, March 1997 Journal of Family Psychotherapy 1(2): 1–28
Contemporary Family Therapy 19(1): 63–79, March 1997 Journal of Family Therapy 11(3): 217–230
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 46(3): 311–328, 1996 Social Casework 69(7): 466–467
Employee Assistance Quarterly 11(3): 67–77, 1996 Family Process 39(4): 477–498
Journal of Marital and Family therapy 15(1): 1–19, January 1989 Maatskaplike Werk/Social Work 38(3): 193–201
Journal of Poetry Therapy 2(1): 3–10, Fall 1988 The Hospice Journal 15(3): 13–30
Journal of Counseling Psychology 35(3): 222–233, July 1988 The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 24(1): 33–37
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 54(5): 708–713, October 1986 Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 16(1–2): 13–25
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 57(1): 6–11, 1987 Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 6(2): 3–20
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 57(1): 66–77, 1987 Journal of Brief Therapy 1(1): 67–78
Family Process 25(2): 207–221, 1986 Family Process 17(4): 465–468
Journal of Marital and Family therapy 10(4): 361–372, 1984 AIDS Education and Prevention 4(3(supplement)): 83–86
American Journal of Family Therapy 11(1): 51–58, 1983 Journal of Brief Therapy 1(1): 17–31
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 51(4): 557–564, 1983 Journal of Brief Therapy 2(2): 119–128
Family Process 22(4): 425–440, 1983 Journal of Brief Therapy 1(1): 33–49
Family Process 19(1): 45–57, 1980 Journal of Brief Therapy 2(1): 3–26
Social Work Papers 16(Spring): 43–52, 1981 Journal of Family Therapy 19(2): 213–222
Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin 25(5): 259–267, 1982 Journal of Family Psychotherapy 5(4): 49–66
Community Mental Health Journal 15(3): 237–247, 1979 Journal of Psychosocial Oncology 20(1): 1–13
Research on Social Work Practice 14(5): 336–343
Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 63(7): 2695–A
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 7(4): 387–398
Social Work 36(3): 220–223
Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60(5): 1768–A
Community Mental Health Journal 30(2): 135–144
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy 35(3): 331–354
Substance Use and Misuse 39(2): 331–343
Journal of Family Therapy 25(3): 236–262
Family Process 28(3): 349–355
Health and Social Work 17(2): 159–160
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 16(1–2): 43–63
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 13(4): 275–286
Journal of Family Psychotherapy 7(1): 15–22
Journal of Family Violence 8(3): 267–276
Social Work Education 23(3): 348–349
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 22(4): 181–188
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 21(4): 207–211
Journal of Brief Therapy 2(1): 53–61
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy 16(1): 54
Journal of Family Therapy 14(3): 231–254
Families in Society 75(4): 251–252
Journal of College Student Psychotherapy 14(3): 51–65
Residential Treatment for Children and Youth 18(2): 87–105
Children and Youth Services Review 15(3): 219–243
Discussion
What was of particular interest to the authors was the fact that both vendors market their products to the same audience claiming that they are providing a similar but superior product. This has been particularly the case with SSA. When SSA was introduced CSA made frequent comparisons between their product and SWA. They developed a Web page that purports to show the superiority of SSA in a one-on-one comparison with SWA. Instead what our results have shown is that the databases are, for the most part, complementary in terms of journal coverage, indexing, and searching.
Although SWA indexes only 330 journals compared to over 1500 by SSA, the actual number of social work related journals indexed is much more comparable (330 for SWA compared to 445 by SSA). Another example of differences cited by the two publishers is the scope of publication worldwide. Although SSA’s results do appear to contain some unique titles that are non-U.S. publications, our examples revealed common hits in both databases for journals of international publishers, as well as unique hits in both indexes that were international, e.g. Canadian and British in SWA and Commonwealth publications in SSA. Peripheral publications in SSA hint at wider coverage for social policy and political influences (e.g. Journal of Economic Issues, Urban Studies, etc.)
Our comparison of how the databases are indexed revealed that the two services take very different and complementary approaches to indexing articles. Both products selectively index a wide array of journal articles and dissertations but focus on indexing core titles (fifty for SWA and eighty-five for SSA). This has created an interesting situation that was revealed in our search comparison. We discovered that the two databases indexed a number of journals in common (e.g. Family Process and the Journal of Brief Therapy) but chose different articles within these journals to index. In addition, we found that the combined overlap (i.e. exact hit matches) was only 12 percent for both searches. When this is compared to the unique content rate of 71 percent for SWA and 77 percent for SSA, this further reinforces our assertion that these two databases complement each other rather than compete.
There has been the persistent but incorrect rumor that accrediting bodies such as CSWE require SWA. In truth, CSWE does not endorse or recommend any particular databases for accreditation of a university's social work program. Rather, CSWE examines the overall holdings or access to social work journals and books, paying particular attention to see that institutions seeking accreditation have “evidence based” social work coverage. In addition, it has been known to happen that individual evaluators recommend specific journal titles to strengthen a university's appeal for accreditation although the official accrediting team generally is careful to not make such title by title requirements.
Conclusions and Considerations for Libraries
The main conclusion that can be drawn from this detailed comparison is that these two popular social work databases complement one another rather than compete. This is somewhat troubling in the face of tight budgets as most libraries will have to choose one product over the other. We offer the following considerations when making your decision:
The Search Engine that Drives It
Consider the search platforms available. SWA is currently only available through SilverPlatter and OVID. Both of these interfaces, at least within the university consortium with which we are all associated, have become much less popular than their competitors, EBSCO, CSA, Gale, or ProQuest. SSA features an easier to use, more intuitive search interface known as Illumina.
The Scope of each University's Social Work Program
Review your institution's social work related programs and courses. Make a determination as to the focus of the program. If it is more domestic in nature, we recommend SWA because of its price and U.S. emphasis. If your institution's social work program would like a greater international flavor, we recommend SSA.
Audience
Consider your audience. In a university setting where librarians increasingly serve as liaisons to various academic departments, your main clientele will be your social work faculty. Many of these faculty have deep allegiances to SWA, while others have been open to whatever product works best with their individual needs.
Local Administrator Module
The two vendors handle local administrator rights differently. OVID/SP requires the local administrator to submit any changes to the support team at OVID via e-mail or phone. CSA allows you to make a lot of changes locally using the Web administration module. This also holds true for generating statistical reports.
The choice of a database for social work students and faculty is not an easy one. In the ideal world, a library should subscribe to all three of the major indexes currently available: SWA, SSA, and EBSCO's SocINDEX or SocINDEX with Full Text. After comparing SWA and SSA in terms of journal coverage, indexing, and searches, the authors have concluded that the products complement rather than compete with each other. It is therefore up to the social work or electronic databases librarian to make an informed decision in consultation with relevant faculty as to which product to purchase.
Notes and References
1. J.R. Graham, A. Al-Krenawi and C. Bradshaw, The Social Work Research Group/NASW Research Section/Council on Social Work Research, 1949–1965: An Emerging Research Identity in the American Profession, Research on Social Work Practice 10 (2000) (5), pp. 622–643. View Record in Scopus | Cited By in Scopus (1)
2. NASW. (2006). Primary classification scheme. Retrieved 1/17/2006, 2006 from.کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
3. Social services abstracts factsheet. (2005). Retrieved 1/21/2006, 2006 from.کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
4. Blaemers, Jill. (2006). Interview by Rick Lilla. 2 February.
5. Council on Social Work Education. (2001). Educational policy and accreditation standards (Rev. 2004 ed.). Council on Social Work Education.
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کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنیدکد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنیدکد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
با تشكر از لطفي كه كرديد
[ برای مشاهده لینک ، با نام کاربری خود وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید ]
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موضوع تحقيق ماشين هاي كشاورزي
1-تراكتور باغي
2-تراكتور دو چوخ
3-تراكتور چرخ زنجيري
4-پمپ انژكتور آسيايي
5-آمار تجهيزات و زمينهاي كشاورزي ايران
6-گاو آهن برگردان
8-جعبه دنده اتوماتيك ماشين ها
9-نشا كار برنج
10-چاپر
11-بيلر
12-كمباين برداشت چغندر قند
13-كمباين برداشت برنج
14-كمباين برداشت نيشكر
15-كمباين برداشت آفتابگردان
16-كمباين برداشت پنبه
17-ماشين برداشت مركبات
18-سيب زميني كن
من دو تحقیق گیاهان مرتعی و مشکلات صنعت دامپروری در ایران می خواهم
کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
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کد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنیدکد:برای مشاهده محتوا ، لطفا وارد شوید یا ثبت نام کنید
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