Open Access Sites

Business Research (BuR)
Business Research is the official journal of the German Academic Association of Business Research. It electronically publishes high-quality articles and offers open access to all interested readers.

COnnecting REpositories (CORE)
The CORE project aims to facilitate the access and navigation across relevant scientific papers stored in Open Access repositories. UK repositories can easily navigate their users to relevant open access content stored across repositories. CORE will also focus on the development of good practice for the service reuse and uptake in collaboration with OpenDOAR.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
The aim of the DOAJ is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact. The Directory aims to be comprehensive and cover all open access scientific and scholarly journals that use a quality control system to guarantee the content.

Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and contains resources such as subscriptions to various research areas, research paper series, and professional announcements. The SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, including several that pertain to business education: Accounting, Corporate Governance, Economics, Entrepreneurship Research & Policy, Financial Economics, Information Systems & eBusiness, Innovation Research & Policy, Leadership, Management, Marketing, and Negotiations.

Open Research Online
A free, publicly accessible repository of the Open University's peer-reviewed research outputs. The majority of outputs are in the form of journal articles, book chapters or books, with plans for other types to be added in future.

The Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)
OpenDOAR is a service to enhance and support the academic and research activities of the global community, and maintains a comprehensive and authoritative list of institutional and subject-based repositories. Users of the service are able to analyze repositories by location, type, the material they hold, and other measures.

The Open Business Journal 
A peer reviewed journal that aims to provide the most complete and reliable source of information on current developments in Business. The emphasis will be on publishing quality articles rapidly and freely available to researchers worldwide.

Academic Research Initiatives

Centers for International Business Education & Research (CIBERs)
The Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBERs) were created by the U.S. Congress in 1988 to increase and promote the nation's capacity for international understanding and competitiveness. Administered by the U.S. Department of Education, the CIBER network links the manpower and technological needs of the United States business community with the international education, language training, and research capacities of 33 major universities across the country.

Dual Impact of Research; Toward the Impactelligent University and BizDissNews; Showcasing Recent PhD Dissertations in Business Research
Executive Director of Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Wilfred Mijnhardt, curates on topics revolving around challenges that universities and business schools face in gaining more research influence, as well as showcases recent doctoral dissertations in business research, available in full-text.

Gale Business Insights: Global
An online resource that empowers students to research topics and aids in interpreting their research. Gale Business Insights: Global uses case studies, statistical data sources, news articles, academic journals and topical reference materials organized by country, company and industry to quickly engage users in the global business environment.

iversity
An online workspace for faculty and students that offers a modular one-step solution for academic research, course work, and practice. Iversity users can share their work and research with peers, announce events, etc., either within a password protected private domain or by publishing contents online.

The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research in Higher Education (STINT)
Part of a group of Swedish research foundations that were formed in 1994 that aims to internationalize Swedish higher education and research, covering all academic fields and disciplines. The foundation upholds the belief that international contacts and genuine experience working in academia abroad should be viewed as a natural and necessary feature of higher education.