Subject Guides

Management Science and Engineering

• Articles and Conference Papers
• Books
  • Books in the Library
  • Online Books, including Encyclopedias and Handbooks
• Dissertations and Theses
• Journals
• Working Papers

Articles and Conference Papers

Database Name	Description	Content Types Included
ABI Inform   1971-present	Business, including management, strategic planning, and decision making	- Full-text, as well as abstracts and citations - full text articles for these are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button. - Articles from scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers; dissertations, reports. Includes the Wall Street Journal
Business Source Complete   1886-present	Business periodicals covering management, including Harvard Business Review, MIT Sloan Management Review, and California Management Review.	- Full-text, as well as abstracts and citations - full text articles for these are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button. - Articles from scholarly business journals
Econlit   1969-present	Economics	- Full-text, as well as abstracts and citations - full text articles for these are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button. - Journal articles, conference papers, working papers, collective volume articles, and dissertations.
Engineering Index (Compendex)   1884-present	Industrial engineering and operations research; electrical, civil, mechanical and chemical engineering; electronics and computer science; energy technology, bio-engineering, materials science and more	- Citations and abstracts - full text articles are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button. - Journal articles, conference papers, technical reports, and dissertations.
IEEE Xplore  1988-present; select content back to 1913	Electrical and computer engineering, industrial engineering and operations research, telecommunications, electric power, consumer electronics, and more	- Full text - Journal articles, standards, and IEEE/IEE conference proceedings
INSPEC  1989-present	Computing, electrical/electronic engineering, information science, control engineering, information technology, production, manufacturing, mechanical engineering and more	- Citations and abstracts - full text articles are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button - Journal articles and conference papers
MathSciNet  Early 1800's - present	Mathematical sciences	- Citations and abstracts - full text articles are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button - Journal articles, conference papers
SciSearch (Science Citation Index)  1945-present	All scientific disciplines	- Citations and abstracts - full text articles are available through the "find it @ Stanford" button - Journal articles, conference papers, technical reports - Added value: Ability to conduct cited search

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Books in the Library

To find books in the library, search the online catalog, Socrates. You may limit your search to a particular library by using the pulldown menu.

Online Books, including Encyclopedias and Handbooks

The Electronic Books page describes many e-book services available through Stanford. These packages selected from that list are particularly relevant for Management Science and Engineering:

• ebrary 
• SCI-TECHnetBASE 
• Science Direct , including
  • Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science
  • Encyclopedia of Information Systems
• Springer 
• Synthesis 
• Wiley 

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Journals

To find journals in the library, search the online catalog, Socrates. Enter words from the journal title and click the "Periodical Title" button. Only journal titles and subject areas are searchable - not article titles or authors. You may limit your search to a particular library using the pulldown menu.

To find journals that are online, go to the E-Journals page. Search by title keyword or broad subject area from the pulldown menu.

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Working Papers

• EconPapers
  Listings of numerous working paper series, mostly in finance and economics. 
  
  
• Federal Reserve Board: Working Papers
  Includes papers on monetary policy, credit, and banking regulations; and a variety of empirical research on government debt, bond prices and activity, and economic forecasting models. 
  
  
• Harvard Business School Working Papers
  Working papers authored by HBS faculty, covering business, management, and finance.
  
  
• Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER) 
  Focuses on the current research of Harvard Economics professors.
  
  
• International Monetary Fund Working Papers
  IMF working papers cover currency issues, international monetary and fiscal policy, debt reduction and relief, and focus on Asia, Latin America, Africa and Europe.



• National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
  NBER has more than 6,500 working papers focusing on empirical research such as the development of new statistical measures, effects of public policy on US economy, and estimating quantitative models of economic behavior. 
  
  
• OECD Economics Working Papers 
  OECD's working papers cover wide range of topics essential for understanding today's world economy such as agriculture, energy, environment, trade and labor markets. 
  
  
• Sloan School of Management Working Papers Index (2001- )
  The Sloan School's working papers provide broad subject coverage such as business, finance, management, and industrial relations. 
  
  
• Social Science Research Network 
  Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of five specialized research networks in the areas of: accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship and management. 
  
  
• Stanford Graduate School of Business Faculty Research Papers and Cases
  Research paper database contains recent research papers written by Stanford Business School faculty. Cases database contains case studies published by the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  
  
• University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (CRSP)
  Working paper databases from the Center of Decision Research, Center for Population Economics, Center for Research in Security Prices, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, and Kilts Center for Marketing.


• University of Michigan Business School
  Faculty research papers searchable through several databases at the Ross School of Business.
  
  
• Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Papers 
  Wharton's working paper series focuses on a wide range of topics including management, marketing and economics. 
  
  
• Yale School of Management
  Research papers available via Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

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Pam Gore
Engineering Library
engreference@stanford.edu