UMGC Library: Doctor of Management/Community College: Additional Resources

Instructions for Creating Alerts

See Creating Database Alerts for information about how to set up search, table of contents, and citation alerts in order to be automatically notified by e-mail or RSS feed when new content meeting your specifications has been added to various UMGC Library databases.

Resources for Journal Evaluation

Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory
Provides information about serials published in the U.S. and abroad, including whether they are classified as scholarly/peer-reviewed.

Journal Metrics
Journal metrics from Scopus, including journals' CiteScore. See What can I do on a Source details page? for more information.
Think. Check. Submit.
This international resource "helps researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research" by providing checklists and other resources.
SCImago Journal & Country Rank
A portal that includes journal and country metrics, with metrics going back to 1996.
Beall's List
Archived version of librarian Jeffrey Beall's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers." See https://beallslist.net/#update for an updated list of possible predatory publishers.
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See also https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/ for an archived list of problematic standalone journals and https://beallslist.net/standalone-journals/#update for an updated version of that list

Resources for Working Papers, Grey Literature, Pre-prints, etc.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
Provides citation information for millions of open-access documents, as well as full-text access to approximately 60% of the documents.
NBER Papers in the Economics of Education
Provides access to working papers and other documents of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
OECD Education Working Papers
Provides access to working papers of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Directorate for Education.
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Papers are generally available only in their original language (English or French), with a short summary available in the other language.
OpenDOAR
Provides access to the contents of a selected list of open access repositories around the world.
OpenGrey
Provides access to reports, dissertations, conference papers, etc. produced in Europe.
ROAD: Directory of open access scholarly resources
Provides access to open-access resources that have been assigned an ISSN by the ISSN Network.
Social Science Research Network
Indexes journal articles and other resources in the social sciences.