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Social Work at NYU Shanghai

NYU Shanghai's Master of Social Work program's center for video and text resources and the research process.

About this Guide

This guide is designed to help students in the gMSW program at NYU Shanghai. It will give you an overview of major text and video databases in Social Work, and suggest resources for beginning your research using encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, and important journals.

For specialized topics in social work, Ask A Librarian, or consult some of the specialized research guides created by Stephen Maher, who is the librarian for social work at NYU's Bobst Library.

Search tips

Better Searches = Better Results

  • Use the Advanced Search feature
  • Not sure where to start? Try looking for books that are cited in your course readings - what else have those authors written, or what research have they cited?

Other Libguides

Also consider exploring the Libguides below, which will help you find more subject-oriented resources: