Proquest Webinars

Proquest webinars are designed to help you get the most out of their various resources. Sessions are offered every month. Click here to see a list of sessions offered during the month of October. Please note that York does not subscribe to all of the Proquest databases on which these sessions are held.

JSTOR – Training and Materials

Take a look at the various training materials for JSTOR. These will be of use to both new and experienced users of this online journal database.

 The Training & Materials page has downloadable resources for training and education including webinars on using JSTOR (online live and recorded)

The Help documentation includes detailed search help, which spells out how to refine a search.

The Tutorials page has many short videos on using JSTOR. New: Finding or Avoiding Reviews; Advanced Search; Primary vs. Secondary Sources; and more.

Rock’s Backpages

Rock’s Backpages is an online database of rock music writing in the world. Sourced from the pages of the music and mainstream press, it is a library of articles (reviews, interviews, features and more) from the early 1960s right up to the present day. In addition to the archive of text articles, it also provides exclusive mp3 audio files of original source interviews.

Encyclopedia of Social Work

Co-published by the National Association of Social Workers and Oxford University Press, the 20th edition of the Encyclopedia of Social Work includes coverage of areas that have come to the fore since the 1995 publication of the 19th edition, including demographic changes from immigration, technology, the implications of managed care, faith-based assistance, evidence-based practice, gerontology, and trauma and disaster.

The Encyclopedia contains four hundred subject entries and two hundred brief biographies of key figures in the history of social work. Arranged in A-Z format, each article is cross-referenced and includes a select bibliography to guide interested readers to primary sources and scholarly works on a given subject. The work also includes an index and topical outline. The Encyclopedia is for use by social work practitioners, scholars, and students alike.