Databases that can be accessed without an Athens password

Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

SCIE home page
The Social Care Institute for Excellence  co-produces, shares, and supports the use of the best available knowledge and evidence about what works in practice. Please note that SCIE majors on guidance, training and consultancy. Their documents also appear on NICE Evidence search.

PubMed

Pubmed home page
PubMed comprises more than 29 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

NSPCC Library

NSPCC library home page
The NSPCC Library is the only UK library dedicated to child protection, safeguarding, child abuse and child neglect. It holds over 40,000 resources including inquiry reports and case reviews, training resources and text books, international journals and grey literature. It provides a useful signpost to what is available, but may have to be followed up elsewhere.

British Association for Social Work and Social Workers (BASW)

BASW home page

Google Scholar

Google Scholar home page
It is advised to use Google Scholar rather than a standard Google search.