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Academic Journals publishes over 100 open-access journals covering the arts and humanities, engineering, medical, social, biological, physical, and agricultural sciences.

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Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with over 8,500 full-text periodicals and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals.

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AccessEngineering is an award-winning engineering reference and teaching platform that delivers world-renowned, interdisciplinary engineering content integrated with analytical teaching and learning tools.  

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The Africa Portal is a research repository and an expert analysis hub on African affairs.

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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.

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ASHRAE writes standards to establish consensus for 1) methods of test and classification standards 2) design standards, 3) protocol standards; and 4) rating standards (in limited cases).

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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.

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 Britannica is for the 2nd-grader learning math, the teacher explaining the laws of gravity, and the lifelong learner trying to understand the latest political crisis.

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DOAB's primary aim is to increase the discoverability of Open-Access books. Academic publishers are invited to provide DOAB with metadata about their Open-Access books.

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eCIGRE brings the diverse global resources for the end-to-end electric power system and the energy transition you need. eCIGRE, powering your expertise!

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Free access to over 150 million patent documents.

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Search and read the full text of patents from around the world. 

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The IEEE-Wiley eBooks Library focuses on the content areas that lead today’s cutting-edge technologies and help set the standards for future developments.

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(ISAP) Indexed articles from more than 800 South African periodicals - full indexing of specialist periodicals, selective indexing of general and popular periodicals - compiled under the ownership of the National Library of South Africa and updated from the 1900s.

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The International Nuclear Information System (INIS) hosts one of the world's largest collections of published information on the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology. The INIS Repository contains bibliographic references and full-text documents of conventional and non-conventional literature, including scientific and technical reports, conference proceedings, patents and theses.

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IOPscience Extra is an electronic-only package available through the IOPscience platform. Here you can access more than 60 IOP Publishing hosted journals and the IOP Journal Archive, which includes all articles published since 1874.

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ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, brings global experts together to agree on the best way to do things - for anything from making a product to managing a process. As one of the oldest non-governmental international organizations, ISO has enabled trade and cooperation between people and companies the world over since 1946. The International Standards published by ISO serve to make lives easier, safer, and better.

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ITU is connecting the world – and beyond. As the United Nations specialised agency for digital technology, they are working towards harnessing innovation and connecting everyone to ensure a better future for all. 

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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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The Lens is an open-access, autonomous, web-based patent search facility.

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Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications, with full-text information dating back to 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164 424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps, and flags. 

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This ebook reference collection offers a rich selection of eBook titles covering a broad range of general reference subjects. Topics include biography, history, careers, cooking, literature, genealogy, health, parenting, personal finance, politics, architecture, science, current events, social-emotional health, sports, and travel.

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MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

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MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature.

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The National Academies Press (NAP) publishes the publications of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NAP publishes more than 200 publications annually on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and medicine, providing authoritative, independently researched information on important matters in science and health policy.

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Electronic versions of highly regarded essential titles in medicine, nursing, life sciences, engineering and related subjects are all highly searchable cover to cover!

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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases, past and present, from across the English-speaking world. 

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Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, covering 25 different subject areas and bringing together 2 million digitized entries from Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions, and Encyclopedias.

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PharosOnline is the focus of South African subject dictionaries and glossaries.

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Your resource for first-language learning in indigenous languages.

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A union catalogue of all items held in Southern African libraries. Includes books, journals, conference proceedings, standards, technical reports and electronic resources that are updated daily.

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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.

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South African National Standards in electronic format.

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Drawn from the Landolt-Börnstein New Series, the Linus Pauling Files, and other integrated resources, this comprehensive collection of data in physics, physical and inorganic chemistry, materials science, and related fields allows materials scientists and related scientists to identify materials and their properties.

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The most complete and authoritative dictionary of the Afrikaans language.

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