social welfare at the british library: a sneak preview
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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!
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