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Keep up to date with current research

Learn about tools that will help you keep you up to date with current research.

There are a variety of ways for you to keep up to date with current research in your field. Here are some resources that may help you.

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ research

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ produces vast amounts of research in the social sciences. As the Library we collect research outputs and, where possible, make the references and full-text available through our repositories. The two main repositories are:

  •  - explore references and full-text research by ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ authors.
  •  - contains reference and many full text ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ PhD theses.

Keep up to date

with journal alerts

Browse issues of journals that are popular in your field of study.

  • - an app, which allows you to keep up to date with the key journals in your subject area. You can browse the most recent tables of contents, save individual articles to your personal library and export citations.

with database alerts

Most bibliographic and citation databases will allow you to set up regular email alerts on a given topic, keyword or author. They can be set up so that you will be informed every time new publications match your initial search query, saving you time and keeping you up to date with the latest research in your field.

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Library also subscribes to a wide range of citation providers such as , which provides citation alerts on any specific article or researcher. To find out more about them, see the citation analysis and research visibility webpage.

Open access repositories

Two major collections of open access repositories around the world are:

  • .

Working papers

Generally these are prelimary papers that authors release to share ideas about a topic or to get feedback before submitting for publication. 

  • - open access papers in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. 
  • - self-archived papers in philosophy and other areas, covering mind, language, knowledge, science and logic.
  • - uses the bibliographic and author data, providing access to the largest collection of online economics working papers and journal articles.
  • - gateway to European integration research papers.
  • - the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics and available freely online. Also includes papers on accounting and finance.
  • - an electronic archive for pre-prints in the philosophy of science.
  •  - over 1,500 archives from  with approximately 1.4m Economics research pieces from 1,700 journals and 3,700 working paper series.
  • - the SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 498,800 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing over 406,700 downloadable full text documents.