Peer-reviewed articles on current issues, challenges, and responses facing social work practice and education.
An interdisciplinary journal aims to explore the current and future potentials for social justice which includes legal, moral and economic issues.
Journal of Comparative Social Work
This journal publishes two types of peer-reviewed scientific articles on subjects of importance for social work, with a special emphasis on comparative research on different aspects. This includes: Comparative studies and single site studies that also generate insight and knowledge in various geographical/cultural and national settings.”
The Journal of Family Strengths (JFS), formerly Family Preservation Journal, is an open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed online journal…devoted to presenting theoretical, practice, and evaluation articles on the strengths perspective in family-centered practice to improve services that promote and sustain family systems.
Social Work & Society: International Online Journal
Dedicated to critical analysis of the relationship between social work, social policy, the state and economic forces.
Building information equity in social work with open educational resources and open access to research
Social Work Education from OER Commons
Social Work education collection resources from OER Commons
Social Work Collection – from OER Commons
This book was written by MSW students as their final project for their Capstone class at Ferris State University.
Social Problems: Continuity and Change
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BioMed Central is an open access publisher of over 200 free online academic journals specializing in subjects related to science, technology and medicine. Areas of interest to social workers include public health, substance abuse, Alzheimer’s research and health care policy.
ERIC is a federally supported database of education-related articles
From the website: “DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.”
All books published by the National Academies Press can be downloaded as PDFs for free by registering for a free account. Browse topics like aging, children, youth & families, policy, reviews and evaluations, population and fertility studies, women and minorities.
Follow the latest bills in Congress. Find information on Congressional votes. Learn who sits on which senate or house committees and how they voted. “OpenCongress helps you track all the actions by your elected officials and what people are saying about them.
Reports written by the Congressional Research Service in order to keep members of Congress and their staff up to date on a number of important policy and government issues.
OpenDOAR is a directory which links to open access repositories from around the world. These repositories contain a wealth of freely available scholarly articles, data and dissertations from leading universities. Browse individual repositories or search across all repositories to find articles written by faculty and scholars from these universities.
PsycArXiv is also a disciplinary repository. PsycArXiv includes clinical psychology, developmental psychology and other related areas.
The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world’s scientific and medical literature a public resource.” PLoS journals are concentrated in the areas of biology, medicine and genetics but health policy, mental health, public health and other health areas may be of importance to some social work researchers.
Search open access journals, conference proceedings, academic repositories and recent (since 2014) monograph series.
Open archive of the social sciences, provides a free, non-profit, open access platform for social scientists to upload working papers, preprints, and published papers, with the option to link data and code.
This site acts as a repository for scholars in social sciences fields to share their research. Authors may upload and share their papers for no charge and papers are free or very low cost to download.
Search within over 160 peer-reviewed open access journals and some open access books. Most journals are in the medicine and science but there are some articles covering the social sciences.
Links to collections of freely available, open access research from Taylor & Francis journals by the following subject catagories: Health, HIV/AIDS, Sexuality & Sexual Health and Social Work.
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