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A sample of the online journals available in social work include:

• Child & Family Social Work
• Health & Social Work
• Journal of Social Work Education
• Journal of Social Work Practice
• Social Work in Health Care

To locate all online journals available to you, search your local library.

• Pubmed

  PubMed provides over 23 million citations for biomedical literature, including MEDLINE, life science journals and ebooks.

• Trip Database

  The Trip Database searches curated content from vetted evidence-based sources, such as Cochrane, AHRQ, BMJ Best Practice, and federal agencies, to deliver top-tier, evidence-based healthcare information. Results are sorted into evidence-based pyramid categories for quick identification of guidelines, synopses, systematic reviews, and more.

• UpToDate (use if on the VA computer network)

  UpToDate is a guided evidence-based, clinical decision-making solution with dynamic and interactive algorithms as well as lab monographs. 
  For remote access use https://www.uptodate.com with your UTD username/password. Tip Sheet for CME/Remote Access Registration

Please check with your local library for additional databases in your subject area.

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Topics of interest include:

• Discharge Planning
• Homeless Veterans
• Intimate Partner Violence
• Opioid Epidemic
• Social Determinants of Health
• Substance Use Disorders
• Suicide

To sign up to receive these alerts or other of interest on a regular basis, please complete the form found on the National Desktop Library.