Research guides: Management Engineering: After Graduation

Library Access for Alumni

Waterloo alumni can still access some of the Library's databases. See the Alumni Electronic Resources page for the up-to-date listing of accessible resources. For more information about alumni support, visit the Alumni and Community Members page.

Did you know that you can request articles through interlibrary loan (ILL) services available at many public libraries? Try contacting your local public library for more information.

Open Access Academic Resources

Open Access Databases

These databases provide an openly available option to search for scholarly content, such as journal articles and preprint articles. In many cases, preprint articles are made freely available, but not all journal articles from a publisher's website will be available for free.

arXiv
arXiv gives access to thousands of article pre-prints from many areas of research, including computer science, software engineering, and programming.
CiteSeerX
CiteSeerx is an evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that has focused primarily on the literature in computer and information science.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes articles from many journals - both traditional and open access options. While you may not always find OA options through Google Scholar, you may older articles that are OA, or find individual articles within a journal are made OA.
NTIS
The U.S. National Technical Information Service provides free access to some of its content. See the note at the top of the homepage for free access options.
SAE MobilityRxiv
SAE MobilityRxiv is a free online preprint server and sharing service for English-language preprints dedicated solely to the mobility and transportation field.

Other Open Access Suggestions

Institutional Repositories

Many universities have their own open access repositories where you might find scholarly works published by scholars from that institution. For instance, University of Waterloo Libraries hosts UWSpace.

Publishers with Openly Available Books

Some publishers host openly available books on their website that you can read online for free.

Index of Academic Documents (IAD) makes many of their books openly available on their website. For example:

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