Social Work: Dictionaries & encyclopedias

Provides brief definitions of nearly 5,000 medical, sociological, political, and jargon terms currently used in social work literature.

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. The Core Collection contains over 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

The most comprehensive dictionary of the English language ever produced. Includes definitions, quotations, and full etymologies. All are searchable.

Online resource present articles including overview of topics, approaches and scholarship relating to topics relevant to social work.

Articles on over 500 topics relevant to social welfare in Canada.

A general encyclopedia dealing with all aspects of the social work field.

Available both online and in print this resource contains comprehensive articles relating to the social sciences (anthropology, economics, political science, psychology, sociology, history, geography, law, education, philosophy, linguistics etc.). Includes biographies of important social science theorists. Each entry concludes with a bibliography on each topic.