Languages: English Studies

EBSCO Discovery Service provides users with an easy, yet powerful means of accessing all of an institution's information resources through a single search.

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) 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.

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

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and articles from academic publishers, professional societies preprint, repositories, universities, and other scholarly organisations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.

Web of Science consists of seven databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, books, book series, reports, conferences, and more.

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.

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.

SA Media covers more than 120 South African newspapers and periodicals. More than 500 articles are selected daily, categorized according to 22 categories, and indexed in Afrikaans and English.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world’s biggest and most trusted reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource.

Substantive, peer-reviewed, and regularly updated, the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics provides long-form, articles written by experts from the field.

PharosOnline is the focus of South African subject dictionaries and glossaries - a one-stop reference for all terminology users.

The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Literature comprises individual titles covering key literary genres and periods. Each title is available individually in print whilst this online version brings them together into one ground-breaking resource which is easy to access and use.

This online edition includes over 250 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfictional prose.