Alumni Access to AIB Library

AIB’s research repository is a searchable collection of our students and staff’s research and AIB Review publications.

Explore Open Access (OA), which is freely available, digital, online information. Open Access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the authors and the users. Open Access is unrelated to an item’s quality; the material might or might not be peer-reviewed. While copyright and licensing may be less strict than traditional publishing, this does not mean all OA works are in the Public Domain. Most authors retain copyright.

• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high-quality, open-access, peer-reviewed journals.
• Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB). DOAB is a central discovery platform for over 80,000 academic and peer-reviewed books from reputable publishers.
• Open Access Australasia lists Australian and New Zealand open-access repositories.

Set up profiles with these search engines to maintain access to quality resources.

• Google Scholar provides you with a search platform for academic literature and includes access to open-access resources.
• scite_  is a research tool that uses Generative AI via the assistant function. It allows you to ask questions in natural language (prompts) and receive answers linked to the relevant literature. If the results are open access, they will be accessible on this platform.
• SSRN is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of preprints and research papers. It is free to sign up, and links appear in Google Scholar searches.
• Mendeley is a free service to search, cite, organise and access additional credible academic sources.
• Researchgate is a free service established to enable researchers to connect, collaborate and share research.
• Zotero is a free tool to collect, organise, annotate, cite, and share research.
• Consensus is a free AI-powered academic search engine
• Academia.edu is a social networking website for academics, where you can follow research or upload and share your own.
• Article Galaxy is a paid service associated with scite_ that you can set up a free account for and purchase articles as required.

Consider joining your national, state or local library.

State and local libraries often provide online access to resources like LinkedIn Learning, newspapers and selected journals.

Find your nearest library:

• In Australia Australian Libraries Gateway – find a library 
• International – National Libraries of the World.
• National and state libraries have more research databases than local ones, so sign up for both.
• Did we mention that local, state and national library memberships are free?

The AIB Library Services team is here to support your ongoing success.

• Email: askthelibrary@aib.edu.au

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