Open Access Books for Social Work

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This is a list of open access books curated by Matt DeCarlo and Anne Marie Gruber in October 2021. This collection is geared towards social work education in the United States. The vast majority of these books are published by commercial publishers, and the authors pay extra to share their work openly.

We provide the copyright license for these books, as many of them carry a restrictive No-Derivatives license, which allows you to download and redistribute the book for free…but does not allow you make public the derivative resources professors use to teach (like slideshows, video lectures, translations, excerpts, remixed and revised editions of the book, etc.) publicly available (though it is fine to put these resources in a Learning Management System or other private platform).

For additional resources, consult our list of open textbooks for social work provides a list of textbooks with more open licenses from which faculty can engage in transformative use.

Child welfare

Disability

Digital Youth with Disabilities

MIT Press
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Ethics

Gerontology

Human Behavior in the Social Environment

Reshaping Social Life

Routledge
CC-BY-NC-ND

Sexual Consent

MIT Press
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The Psychology of Learning: An Introduction from a Functional-Cognitive Perspective

MIT Press
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International Social Work

Introduction to Social Work

History, Philosophy and Fields of Social Work

Deepak Nayak
Copyright license unknown

Management

Policy

Adoption from Care: International Effective Advocacy: Lessons from East Asia’s Environmentalists

MIT Press
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Feeding the Other: Whiteness, Privilege, and Neoliberal Stigma in Food Pantries

MIT Press
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Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic Policy

MIT Press
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What Have We Learned? Macroeconomic Policy after the Crisis

MIT Press
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Practice

Defining Mental Disorder: Jerome Wakefield and His Critics

MIT Press
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Schizophrenia: Evolution and Synthesis

MIT Press
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Research

Social Justice

Sustainability

Flint Fights Back: Environmental Justice and Democracy in the Flint Water Crisis

MIT Press
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