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E-Books

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A collection of e-books available on the EBSCOhost platform.

Cambridge University Press
A collection of 2,431 e-book titles from Cambridge UP and Cambridge UP USA. All of these books can also be found by searching the Library Catalogue. Users can search the full text of all content on the platform and reference this by keyword, author, ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject or category. Text and images can be copied from titles into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (subject to individual publisher restrictions) . These books are available through the ebrary platform. They are included in the Scholars Portal Books database.

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Monograph publications from Canadian public policy institutes, government agencies, advocacy groups, think-tanks, university research centres and other public interest groups. The organizations included in this collection represent the leading edge of primary research and opinion in all areas of Canadian public policy. Their publications are vital to the understanding of developing issues in every arena of Canadian public life.

Includes the Canadian Health Research Collection from agencies working in the area of health and medical research. The organizations included in this collection are active publishers of primary research in the field. The publications included are both general policy documents as well as those of a specialized technical nature.

There are over 40,000 titles in the current combined collection to date, and the service provides 300-400 new current titles to subscribers every month.

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Canadian Publishers Collection
A collection of about 2,000 non-fiction and reference books published by Canadian publishers. These e-books are available through the ebrary platform. The collection is also included in the Scholars Portal Books database.
Oxford University Press
A collection of 5038 e-book titles from Oxford University Press. All of these books can also be found by searching the Library Catalogue. Users can search the full text of all content on the platform and reference this by keyword, author, ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject or category. Text and images can be copied from titles into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (subject to individual publisher restrictions) . These books are available through the ebrary platform. They are also included in the Scholars Portal Books database.

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This scholarly collection includes both e-journals and e-books. Both books and journals are accessible from the Springer website. Springer journals are also included in Scholars Portal Journals and Springer books are also included in Scholars Portal Books.

Taylor & Francis
A collection of almost 12,000 e-book titles from Taylor & Francis. All of these books can also be found by searching the Library Catalogue. Users can search the full text of all content on the platform and reference this by keyword, author, ISBN, publisher, publication date, subject or category. Text and images can be copied from titles into Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint (subject to individual publisher restrictions) . These books are available through the ebrary platform, but they are NOT yet included in the Scholars Portal Books database, due to license restrictions.
uO Research
A collection of 30+ books freely available from the University of Ottawa institutional repository. The goal of uO Research is to promote scholarly communication by collecting, preserving and providing free and open access to the digital research products created by the uOttawa faculty, researchers and graduate students. These books are downloadable in .pdf format. Many are in French.

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UPSO is a collection of tens of thousands of scholarly ebooks, with new books added every month. The books are from prestigious university presses worldwide, including Oxford University Press, Read online or download a PDF of a chapter. You can personalise the site, saving searches and favourite books. These books are also included in Scholars Portal Books.

Sample Books

The relevant section of the Library for print books is in the HV call number range: Social and Public Welfare.

Here's a sample of books (online and print) you can find using the Library Catalogue.

Encyclopedia of Canadian Social Work by Francis J. Turner (Editor)
ISBN: 9780889204362
Publication Date: 2005-09-07
An A-Z encyclopedia with short excerpts covering all aspects of Social Work in Canada.
The SAGE Handbook of Social Work by Mel Gray (Editor); Stephen A. Webb (Editor); James O. Midgley (Editor)
ISBN: 9781849207515
Publication Date: 2012-07-06
Split into 7 parts, this handbook investigates: policy dimensions, practice, perspectives, values and ethics, the context of social work, research and future challenges. Drawn from an international field of excellence, the contributors each offer a critical analysis of their individual area of expertise.
The SAGE Handbook of International Social Work by Karen H. Lyons (Editor); Terry Hokenstad (Editor); Nigel Hall (Editor); Manohar S. (Shankar) Pawar (Editor); Nathalie Huegler (Editor)
ISBN: 9780857023339
Publication Date: 2012-06-06
Contributions tackle both the global and local aspect of social work in its various forms and interrogate the key concerns that societies are facing through an international lens.
Social Work Practice with Children and Families by Ruth Mason; Carolyn Spray; Beverley Jowett
ISBN: 9781412921794
Publication Date: 2011-11-30
This textbook explores what enables good and effective practice in local authority field social work to be delivered to young people and their families. It sets the context for local authority social work practice and then chapter-by-chapter takes the reader carefully through the social work process.
Case Critical: Social Services & Social Justice in Canada by Ben Carniol
Call Number: HV 105 .C38 2000
ISBN: 1897071655
Publication Date: 2000, 4th Ed.
Incorporating the critical perspectives, emphasis on diversity, and pointed suggestions for change that made the previous editions into bestsellers, Ben Carniol pulls together today’s most pertinent research, critical analysis, and practice examples and presents them in this accessible and useful sixth edition of Case Critical.
Consultation Theory and Practice by Christine Anlauf Sabatino
ISBN: 0199934622
Publication Date: 2014
Consultation services are an important pathway to help school systems fulfill their educational mission and to help school personnel become more effective in their professional work. This book adapts the consultation theory and practice framework put forward by June Gallessich (1982) that defines consultation in specific terms and proposes that there are six models of consultation: Organizational consultation, program consultation, education and training consultation, mental health consultation, behavioral consultation, and clinical case consultation.
With Children and Youth : Emerging Theories and Practices in Child and Youth Care work by Kiaras Gharabaghi (Editor); Hans A. Skott-Myhre (Editor); Mark Krueger (Editor)
ISBN: 1554589665
Publication Date: 2014-06-18
Emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative critical perspectives, written in a provocative manner and reflecting outside-the-box thinking.
Protecting Children in the Age of Outrage by Radha Jagannathan; Michael J. Camasso
ISBN: 9780195176964
Publication Date: 2013-02-19
This book proposes what, to many professionals in the child welfare field, will appear a radically different explanation for society's decisions to protect children from harm and for the significant drop in substantiated child abuse numbers.
Effective Social Work with Children, Young People and Families by Steven D. Walker
ISBN: 9781446252253
Publication Date: 2012-08-16
This textbook is written in direct response to the Munro review of child protection. It will be valuable reading for students taking courses in social work with families, and also for practitioners across all fields who work on child protection.
Essentials of Cross-Cultural Counseling by Seung-Ming A. Leung (Editor); Stefanía Aegisdottir (Editor); Lawrence H. Gerstein (Editor); P. Paul Heppner; Kathryn L. Norsworthy
ISBN: 9781412999502
Publication Date: 2012
A brief, supplemental book derived from the International Handbook of Cross-Cultural Counseling. Edited by a high-profile team with international expertise, the book focuses on the history, issues, challenges, and opportunities for the counseling profession worldwide. It includes topics such as cultural, cross-cultural, and cross-national counseling; the counseling profession both domestically and internationally; the theoretical and methodological issues when studying culture; the challenges and opportunities of cross-cultural and cross-national collaboration; and the future of cross-cultural counseling.
Connecting Across Cultures by Pamela A. Hays
ISBN: 9781452217918
Publication Date: 2012
Chock-full of fun exercises, surprising tips, and real-world case examples, this book provides both students and professionals with the skills to develop respectful, smooth relationships with clients and the community at large. It offers communication tools to defuse defensive interactions, resolve conflicts constructively, and engage respectfully. Written in a warm, inviting style, the author shares her own mistakes as she explains what not to do and how to do it better. The book provides practical, hands-on strategies for connecting with people across differences related to ethnicity, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, disability, age, gender, and class.
Assessing and Treating Culturally Diverse Clients by Freddy A. Paniagua
ISBN: 9781412910088
Publication Date: 2005
Summarizes key practical guidelines that all clinicians can apply when assessing, diagnosing, or treating culturally diverse clients. The author accents clinical work with African American, Hispanic, American Indian, and Asian clients.. Some of the topics covered include a description of cultural variables in the DSM-IV that may affect assessment and treatment across groups; explanations of epidemiological mental health data across groups; a discussion on how to apply data from culturally specific, biased measures; and a description of many of the important factors to consider during the delivery of treatment.
Working in Multi-Professional Contexts by John Emmeus Davis; Mary Ellen Smith
ISBN: 9780857021731
Publication Date: 2012-05-15
Making links between different professional roles, policies and practices, this text equips you with the skills, knowledge and understandings that managers, practitioners and students need to work in integrated multiprofessional settings.
From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age by Thomas Scharf (Editor); Norah C. Keating (Editor)
ISBN: 9781847427731
Publication Date: 2012-09-27
Evidence of widening inequalities in later life raises concerns about the ways in which older adults might experience forms of social exclusion. Such concerns are evident in all societies as they seek to come to terms with the unprecedented ageing of their populations. Taking a broad international perspective, the contributors to this book cast light on patterns and processes that either place groups of older adults at risk of exclusion or are conducive to their inclusion.
Social Work with Substance Users by Anna Nelson
ISBN: 9781848602229
Publication Date: 2011-10-30
'Social Work with Substance Users' helps social workers to develop a rounded and considered approach to their practice with substances misusers
Psychoanalytic Theory for Social Work Practice by Marion Bower (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415337991
Publication Date: 2005
The purpose of this book is to introduce social workers to some key psychoanalytic theories particularly those of Freud, Klein and Bion and some of the modern British psychoanalytic thinkers. It is not intended as a blueprint for all aspects of childcare social work. However, all the chapters cover issues which are bread and butter to social work practitioners.
Asset Assessments and Community Social Work Practice by Melvin Delgado; Denise Humm-Delgado
ISBN: 9780199735846
Publication Date: 2013-01-18
Community social work practice has made tremendous progress in reaching out to marginalized groups in urban and rural areas of the country, with social work scholars bringing many of the key concepts underlying community practice into fields like health promotion, fostering approaches ranging from involving beauticians in providing domestic violence services, to developing community gardens to address food security and educational initiatives.
Doing a Literature Review in Nursing, Health and Social Care by Patricia Cronin; Michael Coughlan; Frances Ryan
Call Number: RT 81.5 .C68 2013
ISBN: 9781446249604
Publication Date: 2013-05-17
Print only, Bata Library
Analysis of Multiple Dependent Variables by Patrick Dattalo
ISBN: 9780199773596
Publication Date: 2013-02-11
Multivariate procedures allow social workers and other human services researchers to analyze complex, multidimensional social problems and interventions in ways that minimize oversimplification. This book provides an introduction to four procedures for the analysis of multiple dependent variables: multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA), multivariate multiple regression (MMR), and structural equation modeling (SEM).
Basic Statistics in Multivariate Analysis by Karen A. Randolph; Laura L. Myers
ISBN: 9780199764044
Publication Date: 2013-02-21
The complexity of social problems necessitates that social work researchers utilize multivariate statistical methods in their investigations. Having a thorough understanding of basic statistics can facilitate this process as multivariate methods have as their foundation many of these basic statistical procedures.
Using Complexity Theory for Research and Program Evaluation by Michael Wolf-Branigin
ISBN: 9780199829460
Publication Date: 2013-02-19
Complexity theory provides a promising framework for organizing and conducting social work research and evaluation. This book explores the history and roots of complexity and related concepts by garnering an understanding of the components that comprise complex systems. These components include being agent-based, being sensitive to initial conditions, having attraction, being heterogeneous, operating as an iterative process, having boundaries, using feedback, and creating a self-organizing emergent behavior.
Culturally Competent Research by Mo Yee Lee; Amy Zaharlick
ISBN: 9780199846597
Publication Date: 2013-01-31
This book provides a practical, step-by-step, hands-on guide for social work researchers, doctoral students, and professionals who are interested in conducting culturally competent research with diverse populations and groups. This book adopts ethnography as a meta-framework for conducting culturally competent research.
A Social Justice Approach to Survey Design and Analysis by Llewellyn J. Cornelius; Donna Harrington
ISBN: 9780199739301
Publication Date: 2014
This research book includes a framework of the continuum of social justice research, a presentation on how to provide an active voice for the community in the design and execution of research, examples of social justice data sources along with how researchers have used those data to measure social inequities, and an overview of how to analyze data, using the social justice research framework. The book also includes several in-depth case scenarios that highlight how social justice research has been used to document, monitor, and evaluate inequities encountered by under-served populations.
The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development by Stephen Hupp (Editor-In-Chief); Jeremy D. Jewell (Editor-In-Chief)
Call Number: online
ISBN: 1119171490
Publication Date: 2020
The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development presents the major theories, key concepts, disorders, and evidence-based practices of the field. Covering infancy through adolescence and emerging adulthood, this important work outlines major areas of research and examines specific topics, ongoing controversies, and current work being done by leaders in the field. The first work on the topic of its scale, the Encyclopedia offers scholarly, authoritative information from an international team of experts that spans ten volumes.
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies, 5 Volume Set by Nancy A. Naples (Editor-In-Chief)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781405196949
Publication Date: 2016
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender and Sexuality Studies provides an invaluable resource for students and scholars in the overlapping areas of gender, feminist, queer, masculinity, and sexuality studies; and acknowledges the growing interdisciplinary impact of these fields.
The Wiley Handbook of Violence and Aggression by Peter Sturmey
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1119057574
Publication Date: 2017
This three-volume resource explores the broad scope of violence and aggression. Filled with the most recent research and developments, this important text contains information on the biology of aggression and violence, developmental pathways, theoretical advances, the assessment, prevention and treatment of individuals, clinical treatments that target special populations, and a wide-range of societal interventions.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Crime by Frances P. Bernat (Editor); Kelly Frailing (Editor); Loraine Gelsthorpe (Editor); Sesha Kethineni (Editor); Lisa Pasko (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781118929803
Publication Date: 2019
Offering a balanced perspective, this work focuses on interdisciplinary, transnational, historical, and current perspectives on gender and offending behavior, victimization, legal and policy responses, and notable cases and individuals.
Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies by Sangeeta Ray (Editor); Henry Schwarz (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1119076501
Publication Date: 2016
The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies brings together the most wide-ranging and up-to-date scholarship ever assembled on the colonial, postcolonial and neo-colonial condition, covering the period from 1492 to the present.
The Encyclopedia of Juvenile Delinquency and Justice by Christopher J. Schreck (Editor); Michael Leiber (Associate Editor); Holly Ventura Miller (Associate Editor); Kelly Welch (Associate Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9781118520321
Publication Date: 2017
A compendium of more than 300 contributions written by leading scholars from the fields of criminal justice, justice sciences, social work, and sociology. It covers the latest research, policies, and practices regarding young offenders, the processing of juveniles within the court system, and various approaches to treating and eliminating juvenile crime.