IP is sponsored by the New York University School of Social Work; the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine; the Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research, and the Society for Social Work and Research
To help social service professionals throughout the world conveniently maintain an awareness of news regarding the profession and emerging scholarship.
The new Information for Practice (IP) will help us to better meet those goals by incorporating a continuously upgraded site at:
http://www.nyu.edu/socialwork/ip
IP is an extension of our most last community service project with the same name. The new IP will continue to be a monthly digest (like the old IP). You can subscribe by sending a blank email message to:
join-information-for-practice@lists.nyu.edu
You will receive an email notice each month when a new issue is completed and available on the IP web site described.
While the monthly digest will focus on new grey literature and scholarship, the web site will also include news items from around the world. In addition both the IP web site and digest will also now include a selection of items that are fee based (the journal charges the fee, not us). Our decision to include these items was based on the fact that some may be of such interest to some readers that they will want to pay to obtain them, or access them through a local public library, or email the article’s author for a reprint.
There will be virtually no editorial material in either version of IP. Headlines and titles of articles and grey literature will rarely be changed from the original source (only in instances where it better clarifies content) and the text you see describing an entry will almost always be a direct quote from the actual news item/article (APA style of quotation will not be followed here as it would make the text less readable). Finally, IP provides a selection of news and new scholarship. It is not intended as a complete index of any source of these materials.
My colleagues and I have been involved in Internet based scholarship dissemination since 1993. Our initial focus was on Gopher space. See for instance:
Holden, G., Rosenberg, G. & Weissman, A. (1994). Social workers in cyberspace: Gopher-accessible resources. Society for Social Work & Research News, 1, 8-12.
Holden, G., & Rosenberg, G. (1994, November). Gopher accessible resources for social workers in cyberspace, 1.1 [350 lines]. SocWork [socwork@umab.bitnet], 10/26/94.
Holden, G., Rosenberg, G. & Weissman, A. (1995). Gopher accessible resources related to research on social work practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 5, 235-45.
By 1995 we had begun to emphasize WWW based resources. The main intervention produced along with these works was WWWRSW which was consistently the largest and most comprehensive index of WWW based resources for social workers. At the time of its demise this site contained over 99, 700 links, was used by individuals from around the world receiving over 1000 visits per day and was consistently ranked #2 in Google searches for the phrase “social work”. WWWRSW is described in the following:
Holden, G., Rosenberg, G. & Weissman, A. (1996). World Wide Web accessible resources related to research on social work practice. Research on Social Work Practice, 6, 236-62.
Holden, G. (1997). Wandering in the digital dark. Society for Social Work & Research News, 4, 12.
Holden, G. & Donahue, A. (1999). Web resources for social workers. Connect: Information Technology at NYU,10, 18.
Holden, G. (1999). Social policy on the World Wide Web. In B. S. Jansson & S. J. Dodd (Eds.) Innovative Ways to Teach Policy Practice and Policy Advocacy, [Instructors Manual], [p 10-12]. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks Cole.
Holden, G., Rosenberg, G. & Meenaghan, T. (2000). Information for social work practice: Observations regarding the role of the World Wide Web. Social Work in Health Care,32, 1-8.
Holden, G. (2002). Delivering knowledge for practice: A World Wide Web based example. Journal of Social Work Education, 38, 1, 167-72.
Fratt, L. (2003, January 13). Social work and the Web. Social Work Today, 3, 1,16-18.
Some of our work has been more general, focusing on issues beyond our particular interventions in this area. See for instance:
Holden, G. (1998). The WWW search: A comment on Lawrence & Giles. Society for Social Work & Research News, 5, 14.
Rippen, H. [Chair], Guard, R., Byrns, P., Silberr, D. & Cleland, R. [Leads] + Abbott, P. A., Ambre, J., Anderson, S., Arcari, R., Basler, T. G., Buckovich, S., Carnerio, J. T. M.,, Chang, B., Decker, W., Deering, M. J., Dragovich, C., Eng, T., Fitzmaurice, J. M., Fourcroy, J., J. M., Frydman, G. J., Golodner, L., Hay, G., Hoey, D., Holden, G., Hudgings, Johnson, M., Kerlin, B. D., Kimbrough, C. A., Lazar, A., Linden, T., Lloyd, D. S., Mark, D., Mazzaschi, A., Molloy-Hubbard, S., Morgan, R. E., Perveiler, F. M., Probyn, S., Renner, J., Rodbard, D., Rozen, M. J., Rucker, N. L., Ruggiero, L., Saba, V., Savage, M., Scolamiero, S. J., Shannon, T., Siemers, L., Silberg, W., Talley, C. R., Thurn, A., Tierny, J., Valentino, J. G. [Contributors] (1998). Criteria for assessing the quality of health information on the Internet. A Health Summit Group policy paper.
Finn, J. & Holden, G. (2000). Human services online: A new arena for service delivery. Special triple issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services, 17, 1-3. Co-published as edited volume by Haworth Press.
Holden, G. & Rosenberg, G. (2003). The Deep Web, dark matter, metabundles, and the broadband elite: Do you need an informaticist? Social Work in Health Care, 36, 4, 1-18.
If you do not have access to these publications, reprints are available from Dr. Holden.
The only resources that are received for the support of IP are:
These resources are provided by the New York University School of Social Work and the Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Neither of these institutions control the content of this site. The creation and maintenance of this site as community service to the world of social work. Any views expressed here represent ours alone and not those of our respective institutions. We are not selling any product on or in connection with this site.
This site is designed and intended for educational purposes only. It does not engage in the provision of professional social work services. The information provided here should not be used for the diagnosis or treatment of a psychosocial problem. It is not a substitute for professional care. If you have or if you suspect that you may have a psychosocial problem, you should consult a social work professional.
We only collect data on use of the site and the minimal data needed to maintain a email subscription (your email address). This general information is used for ongoing site development and may be used in our general research program, which might include eventual publications. Regardless, information about individual users will not be used in any publication or sold or given to any other entity.
Editor
Dr. Gary Holden
Professor
New York University: School of Social Work
One Washington Square North
New York, NY 10003 US
Consulting Editors
Dr. Kathleen Barker
Professor of Psychology, Medgar Evers College of The City University of New York
Lucinda Covert-Vail, MS, MSLS
Director of Public Services, New York University Libraries
Dr. Suzanne England
Professor and Dean, New York University School of Social Work
Dr. Leonard Gibbs
Professor of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Gianna Gifford, MA, MSLIS
Social Work Librarian, Simmons College
Dr. Wallace Gingerich
Professor of Social Work, Case Western Reserve University
Dr. Peter Maramaldi
Associate Professor, Simmons College
Dr. Thomas Meenaghan
Professor, New York University School of Social Work
Dr. Paul Montgomery
Departmental Lecturer in Evidence Based Intervention, University of Oxford
Prof. Jackie Rafferty
Principal Research Fellow and Director of the Centre for Human Service Technology and SWAP, the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Social Policy and Social Work, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton
Dr. Gary Rosenberg
Edith J. Baerwald Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Dr. Robert Schilling
Professor of Social Work, University of California: Los Angeles
Dr. Catherine W. Striley
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine
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New York University, Faculty Technology Center
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