DBA Student Research Guide: Databases

The Business Library provides access to many high quality resources for conducting research There are also an increasing number of excellent open access resources at your disposal

After you have explored the Business Library's subscription databases, consider open-access databases like:

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone. All DOAJ services are free of charge including being indexed. All data is freely available.
• Open Dissertations (via EBSCO) provides free access to thousands of open dissertations.
• Semantic Scholar provides free, AI-driven search and discovery tools, and open resources for the global research community. Over 200 million academic papers are indexed and sourced from publisher partnerships, data providers, and web crawls.
• Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research.
• Academia.edu has over 40 million academic papers that have been uploaded by more than 12 million researchers around the world. 
• arXiv.org has scholarly articles in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics
• MDPI is the first open access publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published

TIP: to find additional items published at or by educational institutions add the following to a Google search >> site:edu 

For dissertation-specific databases, click on the tab above: Dissertations.

Find newspaper, trade, and scholarly articles.

See: the following for more options:

• Newspapers, Magazines, & Journals research guide
• Search A-Z Databases

Gale Directory Library

Gale Directory Library is a library database with a collection of online resources.

More advanced research may require identifying experts or useful organizations pertinent to your topic. You may discover leads or contacts to pursue via their websites or by emailing them. Try these online resources to see if any are appropriate for your information needs: