• General
• Voluntary Organisations
• Children and families
• Databases
• Information Gateways

National Centre for Social Research - Social surveys.

National Institute for Social Work - Links to Caredata on the Web.

Personal Social Services Research Unit - Research and analysis.

Age Concern

CHADD - Children and Adults with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity disorder.

DIAL UK - Disablement Information Advice Lines

Disability Net - Disability information and news service.

Disabled Living Foundation - Working for freedom, empowerment and choice for disabled people.

Resource Information Service - Homelessness issues.

MENCAP - Learning difficulties.

Values into Action - Learning difficulties.

Gingerbread - Single parents.

NCH Action for children - Charity working with vulnerable children.

National Children's Bureau - The powerful voice for the child.

The Library has access to both CD-ROMs and on-line databases Individual on-line databases provide different levels of information, from short summaries of articles to the original article in full.

• BIDS Services     (Username and password available from the library)
  • ISI Citation Indexes - Includes the Social Science Citation Index which is an index to social science journals with abstracts from 1990 onwards.
  • IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  
  
• BIOMED    (Username and password available from the library)
  The Ovid Biomedical Service provides access to the following databases
  • CINAHL 1982-      Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
  • Core Biomedical Collection 1993-      Full-text of 15 journals; includes the Lancet and BMJ
  • Mental Health Collection 1995-      Collection of full-text psychiatry and psychology journals
  
  
• Caredata     

  Caredata provides access to a wide range of abstracts and some full text articles within the field of social work and social care. The database covers UK, North American and other English-language resources, including books, central and local government reports, research papers, publications of voluntary organisations and journals.
  



• EBSCO MasterFILE    (Username and password available from the library)
  Full-text articles for over 1,000 journals and provides abstracts of articles for a further 3,000 titles. Periodicals are grouped into broad subject headings including Social Science, Medicine and Health Science.
  
  

BUBL (Bulletin Board for Libraries) is a good starting point for exploring network resources as it’s well-organised, and based in the UK. Click here for social work.

CCTA Government Information Service
Links to all government departments, local authorities, quangos and political organisations. Includes links to the Social Exclusion Unit, the National Disability Council and the NHS trusts.

OMNI
Organising Medical Networked Information - The UK's gateway to high quality biomedical Internet resources. Information on mental health and health psychology.

SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway)
A searchable database of quality information sources. Sources are arranged under broad subject headings, including Psychology, Social Welfare, Community and Disability. Each source has a short description.