Housing Research Guide: Social Work Policy: Reference Materials

Reference materials provide a good, working knowledge of key issues and sub-topics and provide ideas for other sources to explore. Beyond this list, you should know that all of the following types of materials can be helpful reference material for your research: almanacs, atlases, bibliographies, dictionaries, directories, encyclopedias, handbooks, and indexes. For general Social Work reference material, please see the Social Work Research Guide. 

-Grad School Essentials Book

General Reference: 

• Gale virtual reference library: Database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research. 

• Oxford Bibliographies: Offers peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies on specific topics in a growing range of subject areas

• Oxford Reference online: Contains the texts of more than 100 reference titles published by Oxford University Press.

Directories: 

• Leadership Library
• Associations Unlimited
• Washington Information Directory