Subject Guides

Community Research and Action

A guide to support research, scholarly development, and research.

Guide Contents

Networks and academic repositories have been created to allow academics to share and disseminate their research in various stages of publication.

The Open Reposiitory @Binghamton (The ORB)
Explore the research of your fellow colleagues @ Binghamton University.
Sense of Community
Online, international meeting place for people interested in the study or application of sense of community. Users will also find this site as a gateway to using the Sense of Community Index (SCI) and the Sense of Community Index-2 (SCI-2). Through this site, users are able to gain permission to use these copyrighted instruments as well as obtain advice.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Working Papers
Full text of papers produced by faculty, covering issues from social justice and welfare, public policy, finance and more.

Social Science Research Network
The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 114,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 86,500 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.
Though most materials are free, some may require purchase to download.

ResearchGate
ResearchGate allows researchers to share their research and connect with researchers of similar interest.
Academia.edu
Over 2 million members in all areas of research. Users may share their research with each other.
Subject Repositories by discipline

For more information on academic sharing networks and how you may use them to promote your own scholarship, see the Scholar Profiles page.

For more news resources, see our News category under "Browse Databases."

Broome County
Information about the county, including statistics, reports, and information on county government groups and task forces.

Global Newsstream
Covers the Gannett papers, including the Press and Sun Bulletin (Binghamton and the surrounding areas), Ithaca Journal (Ithaca, Cortland, etc) and other NYS regional/local papers.
Replaces Newstand and Gannett Newstream.