The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) was mentioned by Dean Elliott several times today at the Zicklin faculty meeting. This is a database where international faculty members post their research papers (working papers) and you can download most of them for free as pdf files. If the paper is later published in a journal, sometimes the journal citation is available. The number of downloads is a matter considered in rankings. (I can't log on right now to double check the professor's name, but one Baruch professor ranks no. 15 in downloads among 5,000 professors in his field.)
Before we had access to SSRN campuswide through the library I know that the accounting faculty had a department access. It is an excellent database to check for current and recent research in the broad fields of socials science research--accounting, finance, entrepreneurship, management, and social responsibility in business, among others. (These may not be topics you first think about in social science research.)
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