Geo- and Spatial Sciences: Subject Databases

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

SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.

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.

Africa-Wide Information, produced by NISC South Africa, combines bibliographic databases from around the world to offer unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies.

CAB Abstracts (1973 to Present), produced by CABI Publishing, covers the significant research and development literature in the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Coverage dates back to 1973.

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

Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. Environment Complete contains more than 1 957 000 records from more than 1 700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s (including 1 125 active core titles). The database also contains full text for more than 680 journals and 120 monographs.

IMD World Competitiveness Online is based on the leading annual report on the competitiveness of nations, the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook (IMD WCY). Published since 1989, IMD WCY has been ranking and analysing how a nations environment sustains the competitiveness of its enterprises.

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. 

Learn more about Web of Science and how to search on this database.

A comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7 500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3 300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals and includes virtually all areas of science, technology and social sciences.

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.

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 is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.

Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. With excellent world coverage, this database includes research ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment. With over 1,854,600 citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s, this resource is essential for those dealing with all aspects of water and water-related subjects.

This service allows you to discover articles about African content covering various topics. Our collection of journal subjects includes:

• Open Access African Journal Archive
• Business and Finance
• Education
• Labour
• Law
• Medicine and Health
• Science, Technology and Agriculture
• Religion
• Social Sciences and Humanities
• Juta's Law Collection

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.

LexisNexis provides access to SA legislation, cases and commentary. Please contact Bulelwa Gcawu if you need a username and password.

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.

Only available on the NWU Intranet. South African National Standards in electronic format: Non-Printable.