Social Work Research Guide: Home

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• Interlibrary Loan is the service to for getting journal articles and book chapters scanned and emailed to you.
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• Counseling and therapy in video
• PsychoTherapy.net
• PsycTHERAPY / American Psychological Association
• Sage Video Psychology 
• Sage Video Counseling
• Sage Video Social Work

See the Streaming Video Research Guide for more streaming video resources.

As a Columbia University student you have access to several newspapers through CLIO:

• Financial Times
• New York Times: We recommend you use the ProQuest for PDFs, and use Factiva for: international news, web exclusive, morning & evening versions. 
• NYTimes.com: Register for a free account
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post 
• Wall Street Journal and Directions in case you get stuck
• And more, check CLIO

Looking for the DSM-5-TR? Access the DSM-5-TR through CLIO: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/16295244