LibGuides: Education: Undergraduate & Fourth Years: Articles/Journals

Recommended Journal Databases

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

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Academic Search Complete
Africa-Wide Information
APA PsycArticles
APA PsycInfo
eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)
eBook Open Access Collection (EBSCOhost)
E-Journals
ERIC
MasterFILE Premier
OpenDissertations
SocINDEX with Full Text
Teacher Reference Center
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.
African Journals
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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.
ScienceDirect
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ScienceDirect is Elsevier's platform for ebooks and peer-reviewed journals in the areas of physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
Scopus
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Quickly find relevant and authoritative research, identify experts and gain access to reliable data, metrics and analytical tools.
How to find your H-index in Scopus
- YouTube video: How to check H-index in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar
How to find Altmetrics in Scopus
Track your online research activity
- Altmetrics from Scopus will only appear when data is available.
- Scopus captures the following data:
  - total number of times popular media mentions the article
  - total number of mentions of an article in a blog, Tweets, or other social media posts
  - citation impact as compared to articles of similar subjects
  - if or when it is added to Mendeley library
  - mentions in Wikipedia articles
  - Video: How to view document metrics in Scopus
  - Video: Overview of journal metrics in Scopus
  - Video: How to assess an author's impact in Scopus
Web of Science
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The Web of Science has literature search databases that support scientific and scholarly research. These include databases like Medline, BIOSIS Citation Index, Zoological Record, Derwent Innovations Index (patents), and Data Citation Index (datasets and data studies), as well as databases highlighting content from regions around the world.
How to find your H-index in Web of Science
- YouTube video: How to check H-index in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar

Additional information

A-Z Databases
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Accredited Journals
Articles in Accredited Journals are recognised research outputs which meet specified criteria and, therefore, qualify for subsidisation by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET). This database is compiled from the seven lists (2024) on the DHET web page.
Do you need more information? Are you uncertain about any title? Contact Teresa Smit (Research Support) at +27 (0)18 299 4853 or teresa.smit@nwu.ac.za.
Boloka: NWU Institutional Repository (NWU-IR)
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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.

E-reference works
Includes links to online resources that include dictionaries, encyclopedia, statistics, yearbooks, etc.
Interlibrary Loans
If we don't have access to the article, it can be requested via interlibrary loans.

ORCID
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification) is an open, not-for-profit organisation that aims to supply a persistent and unique identifier - an ORCID ID - to any individual involved in research, scholarship, and innovation activities.
Increase your visibility
Why you should use ORCID
- Link all your publications with one unique persistent digital identifier that distinguishes you from every other researcher.
- Research outputs uploaded to the NWU-IR (Boloka) are automatically pushed to the author's ORCID record.
- You can add all your other publications through Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science.
- Link your ORCID account to every research item you publish so people can easily track or locate your other research outputs.
How to create your ORCID on the NWU Manuscript System
Step 1: Register for an ORCID
- Follow this link to the NWU Manuscript system to create a new ORCID ID or link an existing one.
- If you are unsure whether you already have an ORCID ID, search the ORCID registry on their website for your name.
- Register/log in using your CAS username and password, which are the same as those you use to log into eFundi and campus computers.
- Click here for a step-by-step guide through the registration and linking process.
Step 2: Add your info
- Complete your profile by adding a biography, additional email addresses (including ones used previously), name variants, affiliations, and keywords to make it discoverable.
- Privacy settings can be changed for different aspects of the ORCID record, such as who can view the Biography, Education and Employment history.
- Existing outputs can be added to your ORCID record using search and link tools, which provide integrations between ORCID and various external platforms.
- Outputs that are not automatically linked can be added manually or imported using BibTex files.
- Click here for instructions on adding Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar publications to your ORCID profile.
- Funding information can be manually added to the ORCID record or through the provided search and link tool.
- Log in periodically to update changes to the ORCID record.
Step 3: Use your ORCID iD
- Include your ORCID ID wherever possible. When submitting outputs, grant applications, or other research, scholarship, and innovation activities, include it on any personal websites you might have.
- You can also include it in your CV, social media platforms, and even as part of your email signature.
- Existing identifiers from other providers can be linked to the ORCID record, such as Elsevier Author Profile and Web of Science ResearcherID. Contact our Research and Open Scholarship Librarians with any questions or comments.
The NWU and ORCID
Recognising the importance of research visibility and discoverability, author disambiguation, and increased funder and publisher requirements for ORCID iDs, the NWU became an ORCID member institution, making it possible to integrate existing NWU systems with the ORCID registry.
Central to the NWU-ORCID integration is the NWU Manuscript system, which was created to facilitate creating (new) or linking (existing) ORCID IDs while granting the NWU permission to push updates to the individuals' ORCID records.
The NWU Institutional Repository (NWU-IR) was the first integration with the NWU manuscript systems. Research outputs uploaded to the NWU-IR are automatically pushed to the ORCID record of the author(s) of the output.