This guide is a starting point for research in Management Science and Engineering (MSandE)
School of Engineering MSandE Department Links
- Management Science and Engineering Department
- The Center for Work, Technology, and Organization (WTO)
- Energy Modeling Forum
- Operations Research @ Stanford
- Stanford Technology Ventures Program (STVP)
- Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL)
Standford University, Graduate School of Business Links
Student Organizations
- Stanford Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Chapter (INFORMS)
- Business Association for Stanford Engineering Students (BASES)
- Asia-Pacific Student Entrepreneurship Society (ASES)
- Stanford Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
Professional Organizations
- Informs (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
- Operations Research: The Science of Better
To access resources from off campus connect via the libraries' proxy server.
For research assistance, contact your librarian.
Find Articles
Some databases, like IEEE/IEE Library, contain full-text articles. However, many of the databases you can use to find journal articles are called Abstracting and Indexing databases because they contain citation information, such as author, journal, publication date, the abstract of the article, etc.
This citation information can be used to help locate the full-text in the following ways:
- Link to the full-text of the article in another database by clicking on a button that says find it @ SU.
- If you don't see the find it @ SU button, search Socrates, the Stanford Libraries Catalog, by Periodical Title to determine if the journal is available to you through the Stanford Libraries.
- If the journal is not in the Socrates, you can request it from another library via Interlibrary Borrowing.
- ABI/INFORM Comprehensive business database including 2,690 journals, with over 1,750 available in full-text including the Wall Street Journal Eastern Edition full-text from 1984 to present. Find articles on business conditions, management trends, corporate strategy and tactics and competitive landscape worldwide. Set up alerts and rss feeds on your topic.
- Business Source Complete Full text access for over 10,000 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,150 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full-text (PDF) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922. Includes Harvard Business Review full-text from 1922 to present. Includes 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series and market research reports, company profiles, industry profiles. Set up alerts and rss feeds on your topic.
- Compendex (Engineering Village) Contains over 9 million records and references over 5,000 international engineering sources including journal, conference, and trade publications. Also known as Engineering Index.
- EconLit Comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature (over 300 major economic journals and collective volumes), compiled from the American Economic Association's Journal of economic literature and the Index of economic articles in journals and collective volumes.
- IEEE Xplore Provides full-text (pdf) access to the publications of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE); includes all journals, magazines, standards and conference proceedings. Also includes Expert Now online short courses on technical topics.
- INSPEC Provides a comprehensive index to the published literature in physics, electrical/electronic engineering, computing, control engineering, information technology, production, manufacturing and mechanical engineering as well as materials science, oceanography, nuclear engineering, geophysics, biomedical engineering and biophysics. Coverage begins in 1898.
- Web of Science An international, multidisciplinary index to the literature of science, technology, and biomedicine. Over 4,000 journals representing all scientific disciplines are indexed. The database covers 1900 to the present, and records from January 1991 to the present include abstracts. Cited reference searching is a valuable feature of the database. Science citation index expanded and is available via ISI Web of Knowledge/Web of Science. The database is also known as ISI SciSearch
- LexisNexis Provides access to various databases, including current news, business information, company directories, federal and state laws, regulations, legal cases, medical and references.
- MathSciNet Provides access to over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
- Scitopia.org A free federated vertical search portal for more than 20 professional scholarly societies in the sciences and engineering. Content includes over 3.5 million articles and conference proceedings, 50 million patents from the world's major patent offices, and documents from the US Dept of Energy Information Bridge. Full-text of most documents is available through Stanford's subscriptions.
Working Papers
Working Papers, Technical Reports, Case Studies
Governmental Agencies
- Federal Reserve Board: Working Papers
- International Monetary Fund Working Papers
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
- OECD Economics Working Papers
Repositories
- Econ Papers
- SSRN (Social Sciences Research Network)
University Departments
- Harvard Business School (HBS)
- Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER)
- MIT Sloan School of Management Working Papers
- Stanford Graduate School of Business Faculty Research Papers and Cases
- Stanford School of Engineering, Management Science and Engineering Technical Reports
- University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (CRSP)
- University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
- Wharton Financial Institutions Center Working Papers
- Yale School of Management
Hanbooks & Encyclopedias
The library collection includes thousands of titles for reference and research. To find print books in the library, search our library catalog, Socrates. You can also find many e-books in the catalog or you may want to browse our collection of E-Book Resources.
Reference Books and Handbooks
Sci-TechNet Base
Science Direct/Elsevier
- Handbooks in Operations Research
- Encyclopedia of Information Systems
- Handbook of Asset and Liability Management
Springer
Stay Current
Following are links to RSS feeds for a number of Management Science journals and related news sources. To subscribe to the feed, click on the link or paste it into your RSS reader. For more information on RSS feeds, see "What is RSS?"
News
Selected Business Website from the Jackson Library at GSB:
http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/jacksonlibrary/articles/business_sites/business_sites.html. Find a site you like and look for the RSS icon.
Today's Top Ten Front Page News stories from around the world:
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/topten.asp
Journals
Many of the databases and journal publishers allow you to set up an RSS feed for a particular journal.
Some examples are listed here. Ask a reference librarian to help you identify journals to track.
Journals published by Informs
ABI/INFORM
To set up RSS feeds for individual publications, click the publication tab and then look for the title of the journal.
Business Source Complete
To set up RSS feeds for individual publications, click the publication tab and then look for the title of the journal.

