Social Welfare at the British Library:

A sneak preview

J.M. Grimshaw

June 11th 2012

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What is the portal about? Target audience

Aimed at: Researchers outside of HE Policymakers Social work students Social work managers/advanced practitioners

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What is “social welfare”?

Children and families Older adults Disabled people Minority groups Community regeneration Employment, education,

health housing and social services

Welfare benefits Offenders and the criminal

justice system

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What is the portal about? Full text research reports

Rights cleared

Available for download free of charge

No registration required

Browse by publisher A-Z, Most recent & most popular

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What is the portal about? Welfare Reform Digest

Published monthly for current awareness

Abstracts of journal and newspaper articles, books, and reports

Browse current and earlier issues by subject

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What is the portal about? Search the British Library’s collections

Simple Google-like experience

Search whole collection

Search just social welfare subset catalogue records flagged by DDC range

Using Primo

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What is the portal about? Advanced search

Fielded search

Narrow results using facets

Can order journal articles directly

Remote supply is fee-based

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What is the portal about? Registration

Gives you: Right to leave comments Option to sign up for our monthly newsletter Access to personalised home page

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Next steps

Please visit:

http://www.socialwelfare.bl.uk

or

http://socialwelfare.bl.uk

and have a look!