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EBSCOhost
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Select the following databases on EBSCOhost: Academic Search Complete, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, Art & Architecture Complete, Business Source Complete, CAB Abstracts, CINAHL with Full Text, E-Journals, Environment Complete, GreenFILE, Health Source - Consumer Ed, Health Source - Nursing Academic Ed, MasterFILE Premier, MEDLINE
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. How to search on ScienceDirect.
Scopus
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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
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Web of Science consists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.
Emerald Insight Journals
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Contains over 180 titles in the fields of management information science and engineering.
African Journals
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The most comprehensive searchable collection of full text electronic South African journals in the world, focuses on making journals published in South Africa, available online.
Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP)(Sabinet)
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Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) covers indexed articles from more than 900 South African periodicals. Specialist periodicals are indexed fully whereas general and popular periodicals are indexed selectively. This database is compiled under the ownership of the National Library of South Africa.
WGSN (Worth Global Style Network) - Fashion
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Follow the steps in this document to log in: https://library.nwu.ac.za/sites/library.nwu.ac.za/files/files/documents/wgsn-login-2022.pdf

WGSN is the leading online trend analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel style design and retail industries.
Authorized Users: Each user must first register here to gain access.
ProQuest: Dissertations & Theses Global Full Text
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. UMI offers over 2 million titles for purchase in microfilm or paper formats.

Additional Databases

A-Z Publication Finder
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Alphabetical title list of electronic full-text journals and e-books to which the library has access to.
SACat (Sabinet)
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SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.
SMART Imagebase
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The Scientific & Medical ART (SMART) Imagebase is a collection of 20 000+ high quality illustrations and animations depicting anatomy, physiology, surgery, diseases, conditions, trauma, embryology, histology, and other health science topics.
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.

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