Recommended Databases

African Journals
African Journals
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Alternate Name(s):SAePublications / SA ePublications

Sabinet African Journals encompasses the breadth and depth of African research content by offering the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform.

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Alternate Name(s):Boloka / North-West University Institutional Repository / NWU Institusionele Pakhuis

This is a digital archive that collects, preserves and distributes research material created by members of NWU. The NWU-IR aims to increase the visibility, availability and impact of the research output of the North-West University through Open Access, search engine indexing and harvesting by several initiatives.

eBooks@NWU
eBooks@NWU
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Search our eBooks web page for eBooks to which the Library subscribes.

EBSCOhost
EBSCOhost
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Alternate Name(s):EBSCO / Research Databases

EBSCOhost databases are the most-used premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide representing millions of end-users. 

Emerald Insight Journals
Emerald Insight Journals
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Alternate Name(s):Emerald / Emerald Management Xtra

Contains over 180 titles in the fields of management information science and engineering.

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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies preprint, repositories, universities, and other scholarly organisations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

JSTOR
JSTOR
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JSTOR offers a high-quality interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over 1 000 leading academic journals across the humanities social sciences and sciences as well as selected monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.

Juta
Juta
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Alternate Name(s):Juta ePublications / Jutastat / Jutastat Online

Juta is South Africa’s leading provider of trusted legal and regulatory information and the largest local publisher of quality student textbooks in the fields of Commerce, Accounting, Communications, Social Science, Health, Education and the Law.

LexisNexis
LexisNexis
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Alternate Name(s):Butterworths / Butterworhts Live Publish Intranet

LexisNexis provides access to SA legislation, cases and commentary. 

PressReader
PressReader
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Featured Newspapers/Magazines
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PressReader provides access to 7,000 of the world's top newspapers and magazines, including the Sunday Times, The Citizen, Good Housekeeping, Destiny, finweek, Huisgenoot, Sowetan, Elle, Mail & Guardian, and Cosmopolitan.

ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect is a leading full text scientific database offering articles/chapters from more than 2 500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11 000 books. There are currently more than 9,5 million articles/chapters in a content base that is growing at a rate of almost 0,5 million additions per year.

Scopus
Scopus
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Altmetrics Bibliometrics H-Index
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Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Web of Science
Web of Science
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Alternate Name(s):ISI Web of Knowledge, ISI Web of Science

Web of Science is a platform consisting of several literature search databases designed to support scientific and scholarly research. There are databases with a subject focus like Medline, BIOSIS Citation Index, and Zoological Record; databases with a document type focus like Derwent Innovations Index (patents) and Data Citation Index (datasets and data studies); and databases highlighting content from regions around the world.

WorldCat Discovery A-Z List
WorldCat A-Z List
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Alternate Name(s):Journal List / Journals

Alphabetical title list of electronic full-text journals and eBooks packages to which the library has access. 

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Alternate Name(s):Library Catalogue / WorldCat Local / WCL / Sabinet

WorldCat Local lets you find everything you need with one simple search interface. Its a way for you to locate books, articles, journals, videos, and other items of interest in your library or other libraries. 

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