Library Guides: Social Work: Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources

Open Educational Resources are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open license that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.

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Textbooks

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Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

Open Social Work
The goal of Open Social Work is building information equity in social work with open educational resources and open access to research
OER Commons: Social Work Collection
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources.

Open Courses and Videos

Grand Challenges for Social Work
Initiated by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare, the Grand Challenges for Social Work is a groundbreaking initiative to champion social progress powered by science.
Open Learn -- Social Work
OpenLearn is a free learning platform, delivered by The Open University as part of its Royal Charter commitment to support the wellbeing of the community.

Open Access Social Work Journals

Advances in Social Work
Advances in Social Work is committed to enhancing the linkage among social work practice, research, and education. Accordingly, the journal addresses current issues, challenges, and responses facing social work practice and education globally.
Critical Social Work
Critical Social Work offers the opportunity for constructive dialogue in the interest of achieving social justice. We recognize the historical nature of both human capability and social justice.
Intersectionalities: A Global Journal of Social Work Analysis, Research, Policy and Practice
The purpose of this journal is to share knowledge and facilitate collaborative discourse amongst social work theorists, practitioners, educators, activists, researchers, and the community members they serve within local, regional and global contexts. The journal seeks to promote social justice by providing a forum for addressing issues of social difference and power in relation to progressive practice, education, scholarly inquiry, and social policy.
Journal of Comparative Social Work
This journal promotes contributions, discussions and an exchange of knowledge on Social Work issues.
Social Work and Society
Social Work and Society is dedicated to critical analysis of the relationship between social work, social policy, the state and economic forces.