The Social Work Mega-Sites
Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors
http://www.bpdonline.org/
This Web site, which serves as a home page for the BSW program directors, offers a variety of links to a wide range of social work Internet resources.
Columbia University Social Work Library
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/socwk/
Provides links to social work subject guides and Internet resources, social work related electronic journals on the Internet, and current social work monographs from Columbia University.
The Complete Social Worker Guide to Using the Internet in Social Work
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4862/cswhome.html
This online organization strives to create the most comprehensive knowledge base of social work professionals, educators, and students on the Web. They provide an impressive set of links to social work resources in a wide range of practice areas.
Computer Use in Social Services Network (CUSSN)
http://www2.uta.edu/cussn/
CUSSNet began in 1985 as a group of FIDONET bulletin boards. Possibly the first social work presence on the Internet, no set of links would be complete without including reference to this site. The site provides links to resources related to computer use in human services, and serves as an important linkage for social workers on the Internet.
Social Work Gateway
http://www.chst.soton.ac.uk/
This site is sponsored by the Computers in Teaching Initiative Centre for Human Services at the University of Southampton (UK). The site provides links in the areas of children and families, community work, social work databases, drugs, eldercare, equal opportunities, human rights, mental health, networks, psychosocial palliative care, social work organizations, social work practice, social work research, social work education, welfare benefits, and more.
Grassroots Social Science Web Directory
http://www.andrews.edu/SOWK/grassroots.htm
Sponsored by the Social Work Department of Andrews University, this site offers keyword search capabilities and site reviews. The site also offers links to social work content areas, cross-curriculum issues, and other topics, such as social work education, professional organizations, spirituality and alternative therapies, social work technology, and social work journals and e-zines.
INC: Information For and About Nonprofit Organizations
http://www.nonprofits.org/
The Internet Nonprofit Center is a project of The Evergreen State Society of Seattle, Washington. It offers information for and about nonprofit organizations in the United States, and is the home of the Nonprofit FAQ, the Nonprofit Locator, and the Form 990 Project.
Shirley's Social Work Web Resources
http://kml.uindy.edu/resources/socialwork/
An impressive list of social work related links from the University of Indianapolis. The Webmistress, Shirley Bigna, advises that her list is selective and limited to those sites which library staff, faculty or students have actually reached. Inclusion of a site indicates that the site was visited and found to have useful information. These links are checked on a rotating basis to verify that they are still active.
Social Work Access Network
http://www.sc.edu/swan/
SWAN, sponsored by the University of South Carolina College of Social Work, offers one of the most complete listing of Internet resources available for social workers. SWAN organizes links in topical areas such as national organizations, global organizations, US governments, schools of social work, conferences and meeting, and topics by subject. SWAN also has listserv and newsgroup directories.
Social Work and Social Services Web Sites
http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/websites.html
Hosted by the George Warren Brown School of Social Work, this site
offers a tremendous number of links in a wide range of social work practice areas.
The Social Work Café
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/4862/swcafe.html
This site represents a wealth of resources in a variety of areas for social workers. Hosted as a free service of GeoCities.Com, the Social Work Café is a community of global Social Work professionals, educators, and students who believe in the cross-global exchange of information.
Social Work Search.com
http://www.socialworksearch.com/
This site started in early 1996 as Tom Cleereman's Social Work Site. In April, 2001 Linkpopularity.com reported that over 900 different Web sites on the Internet provide links to socialworksearch.com. Now this former tiny personal Web site became a major portal for the online Social Work community in providing Internet related services to social workers and other helping professionals. Socialworksearch.com has now grown to more than 500 different web pages of services and Internet links, offering the largest online database of services devoted solely to the Social Work profession.
World Wide Web Resources for Social Workers
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/wwwrsw/
W3RSW, produced by Gary Holden at NYU, is an amazing resource with nearly 55,000 links to social work resources in a wide range of topics. This site was selected for the Chronicle of Higher Education's Information Technology Resources and for the UniGuide Academic Guide to the Internet (formerly the National Science Foundation funded InterNIC Academic Guide to the Internet).
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