Research Guides: After Graduation-Resources for Social Work Alumni: Open Access Articles and Books

Open Access Databases

BioMed Central (BMC)
BioMed Central publishes over 200 open access journals, some of which are relevant to social work, including those in the areas of public health, Alzheimer's, and substance abuse.
BioMed Central (BMC) Social Sciences journal list
Includes Journal of Ethnic Foods; Life Sciences, Society and Policy; and Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Contains "information, resources, and tools covering topics on child welfare, child abuse and neglect, out-of-home care, adoption, and more" from the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
ERIC-Education Resources
Google Scholar
PDFs may be available for some articles in this open version of Google Scholar
National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
PubMed Central
"PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM)."
SOCArXiv
"Open archive of the social sciences"
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
"SSRN´s eLibrary provides 950,733 research papers from 503,172 researchers in more than 60 disciplines."