Global Belonging CollaborativeLibrary
The Belonging Library.
Highly cited open access research on belonging, free for anyone to read. Browse the shelves, pull out a book, and it opens the article.
Global belonging. From conflict and exclusion to untapped potential.
Kelly-Ann Allen (2026). In The Self in Context, pp. 225–258. Emerald Publishing.
The free version is the author accepted manuscript, shared under a CC BY-NC 4.0 licence in line with Emerald's self-archiving policy. Please cite the published chapter: Allen, K.-A. (2026). Global belonging: From conflict and exclusion to untapped potential. In R. King, H. Marsh, R. Craven, T. Dicke, & F. Guay (Eds.), The self in context: Pathways to flourishing, learning, and well-being (Vol. 8, pp. 225–258). Emerald Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80686-869-820261007
Pull a book from the shelf and read an open access paper about belonging.
Every spine is an open access article on belonging, and the tallest spines are the most cited. Each shelf runs from oldest to newest.
Selected by Claude Opus 5.5 from OpenAlex in October 2026. The selection includes open access journal articles, chapters and books with belonging in the title, in psychology and the social sciences, cited at least 150 times. The first shelf holds belonging research by the Collaborative's Distinguished Advisors and International Council, whatever its citation count. Citation counts come from OpenAlex and will differ from Google Scholar. Every link goes to a free, legal copy.