Enhancing the coverage and quality of the Social Policy & Practice social science database

社会政策和实践是联合王国在这一领域的主要数据库，目前综合了老龄问题政策中心、社会护理卓越研究所的全部投入，以及国家儿童局和Idox plc（前规划交流所）的部分投入。SPP提供独特的灰色文献（地方和中央政府报告，政策文件等;以及研究机构，智囊团和顾问报告）。虽然它的社会政策覆盖面很广，但目前缺乏对儿童保护和儿童保育的深入覆盖。国家保护儿童免受虐待学会数据库拥有世界上最全面的儿童保护和儿童保育研究文献集，拟议的研究将通过纳入这一重要来源的重要内容，提高SPP数据库的内容和质量。由于列入了国家防止虐待儿童委员会数据库的内容，特别方案中灰色文献的比例很高（约30%），这一比例将进一步增加。通过这种方式，该项目还旨在纠正英国产生的许多研究评论中的不平衡，这是由于它们过度依赖美国产生的数据库而引起的。虽然这些来源，如社会学摘要或社会服务摘要，包括同行评审的研究期刊内容的全面覆盖，但它们忽略了几乎所有英国制作的报告和其他形式的灰色文献。这种对美国资料来源的依赖导致了过去在联合王国编写的研究评论中的偏见，以解决中央和地方政府以及非政府部门的政策问题。

Social Policy & Practice (SPP), the UK's main database in this field, currently combines total input from the Centre for Policy on Ageing, the Social Care Institute for Excellence, and selective input from the National Children's Bureau and Idox plc (formerly the Planning Exchange). SPP provides unique coverage of grey literature (local and central government reports, policy papers etc; and research institute, think tank and consultants' reports). While its coverage of social policy is broad, it currently lacks in-depth coverage of child protection and child care. The National Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC ) database holds one of the world's most comprehensive collections of research documentation on child protection and child care, and the proposed research will enhance the content and quality of the SPP database by incorporating significant content from this important source. The very high proportion of grey literature in SPP (some 30%) will be further increased by the inclusion of NSPCC database content. By this means, the project is also intended to remedy an imbalance in in many of the research reviews produced in the UK, arising from their excessive reliance upon databases produced in the United States. Whilst these sources, such as Sociological Abstracts or Social Services Abstracts, include comprehensive coverage of peer reviewed research journal content, they ignore virtually all UK produced reports and other forms of grey literature. This reliance on USA sources has led in the past to bias in the research reviews produced in the UK to addresss policy issues in central and local government and in the non-governmental sector.