Information Services and Library: Research for Alumni: Finding articles and papers

Library resources

You have access to a few library resources which should help you find articles from academic journals, trade and business publications, and newspapers. They are listed below, with brief descriptions and availability information.

All of them offer simple search interfaces that mean you should be able to find relevant content easily, however you may find if you are looking for something very specific or you are getting too many results, you may find our search tips sheet (see bottom of page) will help you.

ACM Digital Library
Access the complete collection of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)'s publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines (flagship Communications of the ACM), newsletters and multimedia titles - comprising over 550k full-text articles across 53 peer-reviewed ACM journal titles; plus ACM conference proceedings and newsletters.
Availability: Global
Business Source Alumni Edition
Business Source Alumni Edition contains some Marketline Industry profiles and Company SWOT analyses. The easiest way to find them is to keyword search your industry and limit the search to Publication Type: Industry Profile.
Availability: Global
Emerald Management Xtra (Alumni)
Full text of 150 Emerald Group Publishing management journals.
Availability Global
JSTOR (Alumni)
Electronic archive of scholarly journals including key economics, finance and statistics titles.
Availability: Global
Oxford Journals (Alumni)
Full text articles from selected Oxford University Press journal titles.
Availability: Global
Proquest ABI/INFORM (Alumni)
Full text business, management and finance journals including MIT Sloan Management Review, Risk, The Economist, FT and Retail Week.
Please note if using for FT articles. Articles from print and online editions are available, but they are listed as two separate sources (Financial Times and FT.com). You may need to search both these sources if you are unsure where the article appeared.
Availability: Global
Science Direct (Alumni)
Access to full text articles from journals published by Elsevier. As well as science, technology and engineering etc subjects covered include accounting, finance, management, economics and decision sciences.
Availablility: Campus only
Wiley Journals (Alumni)
Full text articles from some of the latest issues of key journals such as Journal of Finance, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance and more.
Availability: Campus only

Search Tips

Useful document containing search tips for many of the different databases available to Alumni.

Search tips for specific Alumni databases

Further sources

Open Access
Increasingly academic research is becoming freely available through Open Access channels. Open Access is free and unrestricted online access to publications: to read, download and re-use, subject to proper attribution. There are different kinds of OA content. Authors can publish in an OA journal or pay their pulisher to permit free access. There are different versions of access and resitrictions on when and where the content can be shared. There are still rules about what can be done with OA content. These are managed throught the use of Creative Commons Licences, a serice of "controlled sharing" licences.
See our page on Creative Commons.

Find free Open Access journal articles - install a plugin

Unpaywall is an easy efficient way to find legal free open access copies of nearly 10 million journal articles. Simply install the Unpaywall browser plugin and when you hit a publisher paywall an icon will pop up on your screen to let you know if a free legal copy is available.

Books & journals

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) is a service of OAPEN Foundation, an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, The portal gives access to thousands of academic, peer-reviewed books from over 150 publishers.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an independent, community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
JSTOR Open Access - for full text open access journal articles and book chapters. Anyone can sign up for a free Jstor account. Creating an account gives access to 100 free articles per month.
UCL Press is the first, fully open access university press in the UK focusing on scholarly monographs, scholarly editions, textbooks, and journals. Although they do not list business their book coverage includes: Economics, The Environment and Sustainability, Planning and Urban studies and Gloabal Development.
Open Textbook Library - University of Minnesota has created a catalog of open textbooks released under a Creative Commons, or similar, license. Instructors can customize open textbooks to fit their course needs by remixing, editing, and adding their own content. It covers business, finance, economics, accounting, management etc.
SCRIP
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is among the largest publishers of Open Access journals. Currently, it publishes over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals online, covering a diverse range of academic disciplines including: Business & Economics; Computer Science & Communications; Engineering; and Social Sciences and Humanitiies.

Academic repositories - general

CORE (COnnecting REpositories) - is an aggregation of open access content from UK and worldwide repositories and open access journal conten
OpenDOAR - This is global directory of academic open access repositories. You can search for repositories,by location, software or type of material held.

Academic repositories in business and management

LBSResearchOnline - faculty's academic research on all business topics, from the London Business School.
ORO - the Open University's repository filtered just to their business content.
DASH - An open access repository of research by the Harvard community. You can search across or limit to Harvard Business School ourputs.
DSpace@MIT - is a digital repository for MIT's research, including peer-reviewed articles, technical reports, working papers, theses, and more.
ScholaryCommons - University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School open access institutional repository.
Columbia Business School - faculty research.
INSEAD - faculty research

Research papers

Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is one of the largest Open Access pre-print repositories. It is made up of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences covering: Accounting, Corporate Strategy and Business Policy, Economics, Innovation, Management. It also has a series if topic hubs:ESG, Generative AI , crypto currency and climate action are just a few. See this page.