Stay current
Stay up to date with current research
A quick guide to alerts, repositories, and preprints for staying on top of research
Explore LSE research repositories
LSE generates a wealth of social science research. The Library collects this work—where possible, with full-text—and stores it in our repositories for easy access:
- LSE Research Online - references and full-text research by LSE authors. Includes articles, book chapters and research reports.
- LSE Theses Online - contains reference and many full text LSE PhD theses. For master’s dissertations, please contact your department directly.
Journal and database alerts
Browse issues of journals that are popular in your field of study.
- BrowZine - Create a personalised collection of relevant journals. Browse current tables of contents, save articles, and export citations.
- Set up email alerts in bibliographic and citation databases to receive updates on new publications matching your keywords, subjects, or authors.
Citation tracking
Stay informed when your work—or others’—is cited by setting up alerts:
- Use Scopus and Web of Science to set citation alerts.
- See the citation analysis and research visibility webpage for further guidance.
Preprints and working papers
Preprints and working papers provide early access to research ideas prior to peer review. Explore these repositories:
- ArXiv - preprints in physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics.
- PhilSci Archive - preprints in the philosophy of science
- PhilArchive - philosophy e-prints
- PsyArXiv - preprints in psychological sciences
- RePEc - (Research papers in Economics) working papers and articles covering economics
- SSRN - preprints and research papers from 2 million researchers in over 65 disciplines