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Are you in the know?
 — [Social Policy & Practice database]
Author(s)Alan Gomersall
Journal titleCommunity Care, issue 1591, 22 September 2005
Pagespp 38-39
Sourcehttp://www.communitycare.co.uk
KeywordsInformation services ; Information technology ; Social work.
AnnotationAccess to information is vital to the new evidence-based world, which demands that we are all better informed about what we do. This article introduces a new bibliographic database which has been developed to offer social care professionals easier access to an array of specialist information sources in the field of social policy and practice. There are four databases involved in the project to create the single new database, Social Policy and Practice (SPP): Acompline from the Greater London Authority (GLA), AgeInfo from the Centre for Policy on Ageing (CPA); Caredata from Scie; and Planex from Idox (with special emphasis on social policy in Scotland and northern England). Social Policy and Practice already contains more than 200,000 abstracted references to all forms of documents published mainly since 1981, though earlier material is included. The Social Policy and Practice database is available online through the Ovid Technologies SilverPlatter platform, which offers a free 30-day trial (at www.ovid.com). (KJ/RH).
Accession NumberCPA-051013203 A
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