Library Services on eFundi: Journals

South African Journals:

• African Journals articles with South-African Content (Recommended)

International Scholarly Journals:

Peer-reviewed:

• Before publication and article are reviewed by a panel of experts in the field.
• They might recommend changes or even reject an article.
• The reviewing process is rigorous to ensure a high academic and scientific standard of contributions.
• It is very prestigious for scholars to have their articles accepted and published in well-ranked journals.

Periodicals = Journals + Magazines

Journals report original research and can be recognized by their scientific style of writing.  Articles tend to be long and include bibliographies.  The author(s) and title appear prominently on the first page of the article.  Their content is aimed at the scholarly community. Articles are peer-reviewed and of high academic and scientific standard.

Magazines cater to popular opinion and interest.  They are easy to read, shorter in length, attractive and informative.  They are not necessarily written by experts and not peer-reviewed. Time, Newsweek, Science and Nature are examples of magazines and although they are accepted as authoritative, they are not subjected to a strict pre-publication viewing process.  Use these with caution when writing assignments.

A - Z List of Journals you can access at the NWU Library.