Academic & Research Literature

Basic Overview

It includes published academic works like; scholarly journal articles, books or book chapters, theses, research reports, etc.


Academy of Management publishes six journals to advance the understanding of theory, empirical results, implications for public policy, and education in the field of management.

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ACM Digital Library provides access to 53 peer-reviewed scholarly journals; 8 technical magazines including Communications of the ACM (ACMs flagship magazine), ACM's complete collection of conference proceedings containing over 2,500 volumes of scholarly materials; and 37 technical newsletters sponsored by ACM's technical Special Interest Groups (SIGs).

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Annual Reviews provides the access to the collection of critical review of research literature in more than 60 disciplines in the Economics, Biomedical, Life Science, Physical Science, and Social sciences. Each discipline has its own journals, these disciplines include various sub-disciplines like; Biochemistry, Economics, Marine Science, Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, Sociology, and many more

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ASCE provide the full-text journal articles from 35 e-Journals that covered topics like Infrastructure management and security, Structural engineering, Transportation engineering, History and heritage, Tunnels and underground construction, Urban planning and development, etc.

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The AIS eLibrary is an extensive, comprehensive electronic library for the field of informatics. It provides access to some of the most prominent journals and conference proceedings in the field of information systems.

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It is a collection of Business History. Library subscribes 27 journals related to Business Ethics, Society and History, Environment & Development Economics, Labor & Law, Management & Organization, Public Policy, Political Science and Financial History.

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CLOCKSS (Controlled LOCKSS) is a not-for-profit joint venture between the world's leading academic publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based scholarly publications for the benefit of the greater global research community.

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This database curates openly available content related to coronaviruses. It includes thousands of open-access articles from the world’s leading publishers as well as current research from pre-print repositories such as arXiv and will continue to grow and evolve as more is learned about the pandemic.

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Provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF back files from 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals and all journals can be Search/Browse through A-Z Journal link

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Business Source Ultimate provides full-text academic journals with articles covering all disciplines of business, including Accounting, Finance, Banking, Management Information Systems, Production and Operations Management, Economics, etc. The database includes more than 5072 full-text journals & magazines with 2657 are peer-reviewed titles and all journals and magazine can be Search/Browse through A-Z Journal link

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It has access to 312 full-text journals with back issue access containing more than 100,000 articles. Emerald back files contain more than 120 journals from vol. 1 up to year 1994.

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It has a complete coverage of print addition; in addition to that it has vast coverage of topics in much more detail. It includes Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Thesaurus, Dictionary of Quotations, access to World Data Analyst Online, and Britannica Internet Guide, news headlines from BBC and NY Times, etc.

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Expert Insights are short articles designed to provide readers with a professional "tune-up" no matter what your research or job might be. Whether users need to learn how to use social media, deliver better presentations, improve your skills in managing your time, your risk, manage and lead the projects you've been assigned, the instruction and guidance you need to be found in expert insights series. These short articles will be of interest to users who are seeking to enhance specific skills as they prepare to receive their degrees and begin their job searches.


IEEE Explore Digital Library ASPP and POP package includes 179 IEEE journals and more than 12, 00, 000 articles from over 1500 annual conferences. It includes access to the full text since the year 1998.

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IGI Global database covers 11 subject areas namely Business, Computer science, education, engineering, environmental science, library and information science, government, media and communication, medical, security and forensic, social science. IGI Globe's 11 subject databases are subject-specific book collections, encompassing the latest IGI Global titles. They are updated annually. Each collection contains 56 to 556 titles related to specific subject areas. It gives full-text PDF viewing that allows copy, paste and printing capabilities.

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Provides all aspect of international and domestic finance. Broadly contains time series data on major economic indicators like inflation, exchange rate, money and banking, price, production, national accounts, etc. This also includes over 17,000+ publications by IMF on books and analytical papers, periodicals and reports, working papers and studies, and data and statistical tools.

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It is a collection of interdisciplinary Indian journals and research publications. Library subscribes 33 journals related to business, economic and social science.

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Library subscribes to 16 scholarly journals including subjects like; management science, operations research, decision analysis, information systems research, computing, interface, marketing, organization, service and transport science, etc.

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The Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts of the world. Vikram Sarabhai Library subscribed The Annals of Applied Statistics, The Annals of Statistics, and Statistical Science.


JSTOR provides online full text access to scholarly journals in the area of arts, business, economics and science. The database has entire run of these journals from the very first issue to a "moving wall" of 2-5 years from present.

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Major resource for international arbitration research, comprising primary source material and commentary in the form of books, journals and loose-leafs. Material includes bilateral investment treaty, case law, convention, legislation, model clauses and rule.

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Examines the application of neuroscience in the field of leadership and management development with a particular focus on decision-making, problem-solving, emotional regulation, collaborating with others and facilitating change.

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OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics. OECD has 11,400 titles of books, vast collection of 8000 issues and articles from journals and periodicals, 5535 multilingual summaries and 5600 working papers on various subjects i.e. Economics, Education, Environment, Industry & Services, Transport, Development, Finance & Investment, Social Sciences, Humanities, Science & Technology, Agriculture, Trade, and Energy (IEA) & Nuclear Energy (NEA). Also, provide statistics from the OECD Indicators, Statistical databases and Statistical books, and It contains 2700 datasets, 60300 chapters, 175500 tables and graphs including 5 billion data points across 42 databases.


A fully indexed and cross-searchable collection of Oxford Handbook series on the area of "Economics and Finance", which provides 2165 peer-reviewed research articles from the 74 books.

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Library has access to 270 titles from different subjects i.e. humanity, social science, economics, agriculture, mathematics, law, etc. from OUP.

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The Portfolio Management Research platform allows users to access a full research portfolio, consisting of 14 portfolio management titles, and each title provides articles that cover a variety of investment topics. These journals help to discover all the research necessary to enhance investment strategies and drive growth for the business.

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It is full-text, online resource covering over more than 600+ high quality humanities and social sciences journals from over 120 scholarly publishers.

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The database features more than 4020 full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist, country and industry-focused reports, etc.

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This is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses. The database contains over 2.3 million master/PhD dissertations and theses included from around the world.

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It contains more than 183,754 book titles from world-renowned publishers and it offers affordable, on-demand access of chapters with short term loans, personal bookshelves that can be shared, notes and highlights, copying/pasting and printing with automatic citations, etc.


American Economic Association's electronic database is the source of reference to economic literature. The database contains more than 1.1 million bibliographic records from 1886 to present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.

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It contains more than 153,000 articles from nearly 80 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA). Coverage spans 1894 to present.

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Risk Journals deliver academically rigorous, practitioner-focused content and resources for the rapidly evolving discipline of financial risk management. Library subscribes Risk.net e-journals Ron following subject domain credit risk, operational risk, investment strategies, commodities, infrastructures, derivatives and regulation.

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It offers journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine. Library subscribes more than 518 titles in the HSS and business collection.

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The database is a research tool designed to help in create research projects and understand the methods behind them. Users can explore method concept to help them design research project, understand particular method, identify new method for their research.

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Library subscribes many e-journals from different packages related to Business and Economics from Elsevier. These all are available with back-files (Vol. 1, Issue 1 up to year 1994). Subjects cover; business, management and accounting, decision sciences, economics, econometrics and finance, agriculture and biological sciences, pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics.

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This database offers to 1778 journals with perpetual access on different disciplines like; business and management, accounting & finance, mathematics, marketing, education and transportation, etc.

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Library having access to more than 407 peer-reviewed journals of Taylor and Francis with perpetual access on subjects like; economics, business, finance, mathematics and allied subjects.

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Web of Science is a multidisciplinary research citation indexing database, provides complete bibliographical data, citations, and abstracts to the journal articles, book chapters, and proceeding papers across a wide range of disciplines, i.e., sciences, social sciences, and arts & humanities. It covers peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals/books, including open access published worldwide. The collection includes the following citation indices:

(1) Science Citation Index Expanded (1990–present)
(2) Social Sciences Citation Index (1990–present)
(3) Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1990–present)
(4) Conference Proceedings Citation Index (1990–present)
(5) Emerging Sources Citation Index (2005-present)
(6) Book Citation Index (2005-present)

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The database provides legal information with trusted legal sources, news and business sources from around the world including case law, legislation, law reviews, treatises, and directories organized by topical and jurisdictional libraries, business information and news, including business public records.

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Library has access to more than 551 journals with perpetual access of Wiley. It covers subjects, humanity, social science, economics, mathematics, business and management, law, etc.

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About VSL

The Vikram Sarabhai Library (VSL) is named after Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, world renowned physicist and founding Director of IIMA. It was set up in 1962 and is one of the best management libraries in Asia. The library is open 24x7. Our mission is to facilitate convenient and user friendly access to current, global and relevant information by identifying, acquiring, organizing and retrieving information in various formats (print & non print) to serve the information needs of the academic fraternity of IIMA to meet their teaching, research, consulting, training and learning requirements.

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