Research Guides: Social Work: Open Access Resources

What is Open Access?

Open access is

"Free online availability of research articles for anyone to legally access, use, and share with attribution to the author" (Peter Suber, 2012)
Compatible with copyright laws
Compatible with peer review

Open Access: UA Libraries Research Guide
This research guide provides a wealth of information about open access, the types of open access, and resources to find open access materials.
SPARC Open Access
A great resource providing information about Open Access.

Here are just a few resources for finding open access journals.

The University of Alabama's Institutional Repository (IR)
The Institutional Repository (IR) is a platform for promoting open access and exposing University of Alabama scholarship to a world-wide audience.
Directory of Open Access Journals
The DOAJ is a non-profit depository of open access journals that is both international and interdisciplinary in scope. The DOAJ only admits journals that practice some sort of quality control, whether it be peer review or an editorial process.

SpringerOpen This link opens in a new window
Open access STEM publications from Springer. covering various areas of science, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences.
This is a freely accessible site. Contents may change without warning.
PubMed This link opens in a new window
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. It also includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources.
This is a freely accessible site. Contents may change without warning.