Open Access Social Work: Search for Open Access Articles
Resources for Finding and Accessing Open Access Articles
Google Scholar primarily searches the following: academic publisher websites, Google books, institutional repositories and .edu sites, .gov sites
SocArXiv is a repository of articles that have been made available by authors (often referred to as pre-print, post-print, or author accepted). SocArXiv has content across multiple disciplines, and includes a social work specific category.
PsycArXiv is also a repository. PsycArXiv includes clinical psychology, developmental psychology and other related areas.
PubMed is a federally supported database of health-sciences related articles, including psychology, psychiatry, and public health. PubMed Central is a subset of PubMed and is composed of all open access articles.
ERIC is a federally supported database of education-related articles.
Search Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches the academic, scholarly Web for peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles. If the item is freely available, you will often seen a PDF link on the right.
Search ERIC
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ERICEducation-related materials, including articles, books, policy papers, and reports
Search PubMed & PubMed Central
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PubMedSearch all of PubMed
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PubMed CentralSearch PubMed Central, all results will be freely available articles