Drugs and Alcohol: Open Access Sources   Tags: group hubert h humphrey fellows  

This guide is for stakeholders in drug abuse prevention, treatment, and policy realms who do not have access to university library collections and/or costly scientific journals.

 It facilitates free, immediate access to scholarly peer-reviewed journal articles, monographs, book chapters, conference proceedings, technical manuals, and education and training resources through global Open Access (OA) Initiatives like

BioMed Central, The Directory of Open Access Journals, The Public Library of Science, OpenDOAR Academic Repositories, PubMed Central, Google Custom Search Engines.

Through Information Literacy tips and tutorials, users learn to search with specialized terms, evaluate research evidence, and select relevant information to inform practice.

This guide was developed with help from the 2011-12 Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows at Virginia Commonwealth University's Institute for Drug and Alcohol Studies who represent the countries of Brazil, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uganda, and Uruguay.