Search academic literature
Search beyond the reading list across scholarly discovery services, publisher platforms, and specialist collections.
SMC Research Lab
Research tools for serious academic work.
The SMC Research Lab gives Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral students a practical way to search academic literature, work with course readings, save useful sources, keep private notes, and prepare material for papers, projects, and theses.
Available to the SMC academic community
What the Lab is for
The Lab supports the research behind papers, applied projects, dissertations, and theses.
Academic research requires more than entering a topic into a search box. Students need to consult course literature, locate current scholarship, check publication details, follow citations, compare sources, and keep track of what they plan to use.
The SMC Research Lab brings these tasks into a private student environment and provides a clear route back to the original source.
Review source information
Check authors, publication dates, journals, books, DOIs, and citation links before deciding whether a source belongs in the work.
Save sources and notes
Keep selected works with private notes and the publication details needed to return to them later.
Export selected records
Export useful records as CSV or BibTeX for further organization, citation management, and writing.
Research sources
Scholarly discovery across publishers, collections, and disciplines.
No single research service covers every discipline or publication type. The Lab integrates several sources so students can move between broad discovery, publisher collections, open-access material, specialist repositories, and SMC research outputs.
Integrated research platforms
OpenAlex
Scholarly discovery
A broad index of research works and the relationships among authors, institutions, topics, sources, and citations.
ScienceDirect
Elsevier journals and books
Research literature across business, social science, science, technology, medicine, and related fields.
Springer Nature Link
Journals, books, and reference works
Academic journals, books, reference works, and research protocols across a wide range of disciplines.
JSTOR
Cross-disciplinary scholarship
Journals, books, research reports, and primary sources across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
ProQuest
Multidisciplinary research
Scholarly journals, books, theses, dissertations, reports, and other academic sources across a broad range of disciplines.
Additional research sources
Additional sources integrated in the Lab.
These services extend discovery into open books and journals, disciplinary repositories, policy and legal sources, and institutional research.
Crossref
DOI records and dependable publication metadata.
Open books and journals
DOAB, OAPEN, and DOAJ.
Research repositories
CORE, OpenAIRE, ERIC, PubMed Central, and arXiv.
Open learning resources
OpenStax and Open Textbook Library.
Economics and public policy
RePEc, EconStor, and World Bank research.
Law and European institutions
EUR-Lex and HUDOC.
SMC research outputs
Approved institutional publications and materials in the SMC Zenodo Community.
Availability of the full text depends on the source and the access available to the user.
Private research workspace
A private workspace for selected sources and research notes.
Students can return to saved work without rebuilding the source list or losing the notes made during review.
Saved works
Maintain a working set of sources for a course, paper, applied project, dissertation, or thesis.
Private notes
Record relevance, methods, limitations, quotations, links to other sources, and questions for further review.
Publication details
Retain authors, titles, publication dates, sources, DOIs, and related metadata with each saved work.
CSV and BibTeX export
Take selected records into the next stage of research and writing without rebuilding the source list.
Program relevance
The Lab supports different forms of academic work.
Students use the same research environment for different purposes, depending on the program and the demands of the work.
Bachelor and Master
Course research, applied assignments, evidence for management decisions, and the Thesis Research Project.
Doctor of Business Administration
Advanced literature review, an applied research problem, research design, and the evidence behind a professional intervention.
Doctor of Philosophy
Field mapping, citation trails, specialist literature, a defensible research gap, and the development of an original thesis.
Academic practice
The Lab supports research. Academic judgment remains the student's responsibility.
Students are responsible for judging source quality, using evidence accurately, citing it correctly, and complying with SMC's standards for academic integrity and the responsible use of AI.
Student access
Access the SMC Research Lab.
Existing Lab users sign in through their SMC account. Students who need access can submit a request using an exact @smc.college or @smceducation.com email address. SMC reviews each request before access is enabled.