BSc Technology Management Library Guide
This guide supports students enrolled in the BSc Technology Management programme. It highlights high-quality library resources for technology leadership, project management, innovation, digital transformation, policy, entrepreneurship, and applied research.
Use this guide alongside the Find Resources page and the full A–Z Library Resources directory.
Start Here (Recommended First)
If you are new to the programme or starting a research assignment, begin with these multidisciplinary discovery tools and open book platforms.
- Google Scholar – Broad discovery of scholarly articles, reports, and books.
- BASE – Academic search engine covering open repositories and publishers.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) – Peer-reviewed academic books.
- OAPEN – Scholarly open-access books, strong for management and policy.
Management, Leadership & Strategy
Use these resources for topics such as strategic management, organizational leadership, innovation management, and decision-making.
- Harvard Business School – Working Knowledge – Practitioner-focused insights and case-based analysis.
- Knowledge@Wharton – Research-informed business and management analysis.
- National Academies Press – Reviewed reports on technology, leadership, innovation, and policy.
- World Bank Open Knowledge Repository – Technology, development, and organizational reform studies.
Project Management & Agile Methods
These resources support coursework and assignments related to project planning, agile frameworks, risk management, and delivery of technology projects.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) – Open resources and professional guidance.
- Official Scrum Guides – Authoritative agile framework documentation.
- Saylor Academy – Free management and project-focused courses.
- Professor Messer – IT project and infrastructure context (supplementary).
Technology Policy, Standards & Governance
Essential for understanding regulatory environments, cybersecurity governance, standards, and ethical management of technology.
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework – Industry-recognized cybersecurity governance standard.
- NIST Computer Security Resource Center – Technical and managerial security guidance.
- MITRE ATT&CK – Knowledge base for cybersecurity risk and threat management.
- International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – Global telecommunications and ICT standards.
Research, Data & Evidence-Based Decision Making
Use these sources for research projects, feasibility studies, market analysis, and policy-driven decision making.
- CORE – Aggregated open-access research articles.
- IDEAS (RePEc) – Economics and management research papers.
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) – Influential working papers in economics and policy.
- Government of Jamaica Open Data Portal – Local datasets for applied analysis.
- STATIN Jamaica – Official Jamaican statistics.
Ebooks & Open Textbooks
Recommended sources for full-length readings, textbooks, and reference materials aligned with Technology Management.
- OpenStax – Peer-reviewed open textbooks.
- Open Textbook Library – Faculty-reviewed open textbooks.
- OAPEN – Scholarly OA monographs.
- DOAB – Discovery of peer-reviewed OA books.
- Open Book Publishers – High-quality academic OA books.
Using This Guide Effectively
- Start with Google Scholar or BASE to identify key literature.
- Use DOAB and OAPEN for academic-level books.
- Support strategic and policy arguments with World Bank, National Academies Press, and NIST.
- For Jamaica-focused assignments, prioritize STATIN, PIOJ, and local repositories.