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Welfare
Subject guide
This NSI Libraries online subject guide provides links to information available on the web. Some resources require a DET username and password. Don’t know your DET username and password? Contact your College Student Administration or your teacher.
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Associations/Councils
Association of Children's Welfare Agencies
Australian Council of Social Service
Australian Institute of Welfare & Community Workers Inc.
Community Services and Health Industry Skills Council
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Local Community Services Association
NSW Council for Social Service
Physical Disability Council of NSW
Refugee Council of Australia
Organisations and directories
Local Information Network for Community Services
Northcott Disability Services
Richmond Fellowship of NSW
Salvation Army
Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Wesley Mission
Links
Health & community services
TAFE Studylinks
Course resources - Community services
North Coast Institute's web links for family and community services
Alcohol and other drugs
Community services work
Bremer Institute of TAFE's subject links
HealthInsite provides quality health and welfare information. Topic pages include:
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Government information
Alcohol
Information about alcohol-related health issues and Australian Government policy.
Alcohol Info - NSW Government
Centrelink
Commission for Children and Young People
Community builders.nsw
Department of Ageing, Disability & Home Care
Department of Community Services (DoCS)
Department of Immigration and Citizenship
Department of Juvenile Justice
Disability Employment Network
National standards for Disability Services
Druginfo
Official NSW Government website on drug issues
Parenting NSW
Legislation, statutes and statistics
Australian social trends and other community services statistics
Provided by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
AusStats (ABS)
Provides statistical and reference information related to various topics e.g. alcohol, suicide, obesity and more.
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Health and welfare statistics information
ComLaw
Family Law
Parliamentary Library (Australia)
Lawlink NSW and NSW legislation
Legal Information Access Centre (LIAC)
Legal Research Links
Compiled by the High Court of Australia provides access to resources such as Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII) and the Australian legal information gateway Australian Law Online and WebLaw which includes the categories Children & the law, Family law, Women & the law and more.
Related subject guides
Aboriginal studies
Aged care
Child studies
Job skills
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eJournals & eBooks |
eJournals
Freely available eJournals
Australian review of public affairs
Journal of population research
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Provides access to over 3,000 free online journals.
EBSCOhost
Click the link of one of the selected journals or databases. Log in using your DET username and password.
ANZRC
• Australian Aboriginal studies
• Australian journal of social issues
• Australian & NZ journal of family therapy
• Family matters
• Youth studies Australia
• Social work review
CINAHL
• Adolescence
• Child welfare
• Drugs & alcohol today
• Family planning perspectives
• Health & social work
• Journal of public mental health
• Quality in ageing
• Social work
• Social work research
• Working with older people
Gale Cengage Learning
Click the link to the Gale databases or one of the selected journals. Log in using your DET username and password.
• Child welfare
• Journal of social welfare & family law
• Journal of women and aging
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eBooks
FA Davis
Log in to FA Davis using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Browse catalogue to get the list of available eBooks, e.g.
• Caring for older adults holistically
• Nursing care at the end of life: palliative care for patients and families
NetLibrary
Click the link of the example and then click on URL. Log in using your DET username and password.
eReference
Log in using your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of your username. Once you have logged into the database, click on Subjects & Books and go to Politics & Social Sciences.
Oxford Reference Online
• Dictionary of sociology
• Dictionary of social sciences
Training toolboxes (Australian Flexible Learning Framework)
Click on 'URL' at the end of the description to access these training packages which contain tutorials, quizzes and resources for your course. From home, log in using your DET username and password. You can view or download these resources. A CD-ROM of the packages may be available at your TAFE library.
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Databases covering welfare subjects
Here is a selection of subject specific databases provided. For the full list of general databases and regarding instructions go to the eResources Portal.
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Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) website. Includes statistics and some analysis of information from the National Census and other sources. Allows for the creation of local area profiles.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ |
Freely available |
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Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre - EBSCO's searchable database provides full text, and index access to many local and international magazines, newspapers and reference books. Most general subjects are covered. |
DET username and password required. |
CINAHL Plus with Full Text
Nursing database |
CINAHL Plus with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals, providing full text for more than 750 journals. With more than 600,000 full-text articles dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature, including welfare. |
DET username and password required. |
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Facts on File is a set of online reference databases. The Health Reference Centre database contains articles, illustrations and videos relating to alcohol and drug abuse, eating disorders, suicide, developmental disorders and other health and welfare issues. |
Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith).
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Gale databases provide access to periodical and news information on a diverse set of topics. The sub-collection General OneFile includes over 6,300 full-text titles and 400 newspaper services (a total of more than 11,000 titles). Also included in the subscription is the 'General Reference Centre Gold'. |
DET username and password required. |
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Australian gateway to up-to-date and quality assessed information on important health and welfare topics such as mental health, suicide, drugs and alcohol, health and community services and more. This service is funded by the Department for Health and Ageing.
http://www.healthinsite.gov.au/ |
Freely available |
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NetLibrary provides full-text access to a wide range of online books, including social work and welfare titles. Currently more than 800 eBooks are available in this collection as well as 3400 publicly-accessible eBooks of Project Gutenberg. |
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A searchable collection of 175+ key Oxford reference publications covering 25 subject areas. Includes bilingual dictionaries, encyclopaedias, subject reference, quotations, maps & illustrations and 42 x 20th century timelines.
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Students: use your DET username and password with EDU\ in front of the username (e.g. EDU\john.smith).
Staff: use your network username and password with NSI\ in front of the username (NSI\jsmith). |
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TVNews indexes and abstracts Australian news items, current affairs and documentaries from free-to-air networks since 2007. You can download video content straight to your desktop or flash drive. Most programs are available the next working day. Coverage includes: Australian story, Behind the news, 60 minutes, Four corners, Lateline, Living Black, Message Stick, People Dimensions and all the major news broadcasts. |
DET username and password required. |
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Catalogues
The NSW TAFE Library catalogue lists all the resources held in NSW TAFE libraries. You can search by keyword, author, title and subject and also limit searches to specific types of materials and specific college libraries. The catalogue has links to, and the addresses and contact details of, all individual NSW TAFE Libraries.
Subject headings
Catalogue links to some welfare subjects and availability through NSI Libraries are listed below. Please note: the search results are limited to items available in NSI Libraries. Do a new search if you want to find items held by your local library or to get results for all TAFE NSW Libraries.
Macquarie University Library
Macquarie University Library has an extensive collection of resources in the welfare area. NSI has a reciprocal borrower's agreement with Macquarie University ($44 per calendar year). Please ask your NSI library staff for details on how to access this service.
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Last updated: 13.08.2009
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