Business academic journals and working papers

ArXiv
Scientific repository of open access e-prints. Includes an economics and quantitative finance section.

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate
A major source of academic journals and working papers.

EconLit
Economic academic literature database with full text access, including country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, labour economics and monetary theory.

Economics, Econometrics and Finance e-journal and e-book collection
This journal collection contains 71 titles with the oldest title going back to 1967. There are also 78 e-books.

EconPapers (RePEc) 
EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of online Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

HighWire
HighWire Press partners with independent scholarly publishers, societies, associations, and university presses to facilitate the digital dissemination of 1781 journals, reference works, books, and proceedings. HighWire provides online research from a vast database of full-text scholarly, high-impact materials. The portal offers advanced searching and browsing capabilities and tools, creating an alternative means to find and make sense of information from over five million full-text articles.

JSTOR Business Collection
Archive of major academic business journal articles, covering economics, finance, accounting, marketing, risk assessment and management. Search as part of complete JSTOR collection or choose Advanced Search to narrow to business only; alternatively browse by sub-topic within Business and Economics.

PsycARTICLES
Full text articles covering all subject areas relevant to psychological science including psychology and social and behavioural sciences related to business.

PsycINFO
An abstract and indexing database of peer-reviewed literature in psychology, including related disciplines such as medicine, law, social work, neuroscience, business, nursing, forensics and engineering.

ScienceDirect - Elsevier Business, Management and Accounting journals collection
This online collection provides access to older journal content for 72 titles between 1958-1994. All journals are also available by individual journal title through Library Search.

Social Sciences Research Network (SSRN) e-library
Working papers in economics, accounting, entrepreneurship, finance and management. This service provides access to free full-text papers through various subject specific networks, including Accounting and Economics Research Networks. It also contains a search option to search across all subject areas. Not all content is freely available.

Wiley Online
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 13,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.

Additional working papers

Bath working papers
Papers from the University of Bath’s School of Management. Full-text from 2005 onwards.

CBR working papers
Papers from the Centre for Business Research at the University of Cambridge. Full-text from September 1999 onwards.

IMF working papers
Papers from the International Monetary Fund. Full-text from 1997 onwards.

ISER working papers
Papers from the Institute for Social Research. Full-text from 1997 onwards.

London Business School working papers
Full-text papers from 1997 onwards.

NIESR Discussion Papers
Papers from the National Institute for Economic & Social Research, UK. Available in full-text format. 

OECD working papers
Full-text working papers from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Oxford economics working papers
Various series of papers from the University of Oxford.

Multidisciplinary search tools

Scopus
Multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid-1960s that covers business, management and economics. You can limit your search to those subjects if you choose to do so. You can also to look at the special features which allow you to set up alerts, download and e-mail and often link directly to the full text of the source.

Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database which indexes international scholarly literature. It Includes the Science citation index, Social Science Citation index, Arts and Humanities citation index and Conference Proceedings Citation indexes.