LibGuides: Music: Articles/Journals

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South Africa E-learning Platform via Snapplify - Follow the instructions in this PDF document.

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
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APA PsychInfo
APA PsychArticles
Ebook Collection
Ebook Open Access Collection
E - Journals
Eric
Masterfile Premiere
Music Periodicals Database
Open Dissertation
RILM Abstracts of Music
Literature with Full Text
Web of Science
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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.

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

Publication Finder for NWU
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Alphabetical title list of electronic full-text journals and e-books to which the library has access to.
SACat (Sabinet)
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SACat reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual items and other information material.

A - Z Databases
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Accredited Journals
Articles in accredited journals are recognised research output which meet specified criteria and therefore quality for subsidisation by the Department of Higher Education and Training.
ORCID
ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor Identification) is an open, not-for-profit organisation with the aim of supplying a persistent and unique identifier - an ORCID iD - to any individual who is involved in research, scholarship and innovation activities.
Interlibrary Loan
If we don't have access to the article, it can be requested via interlibrary loans.

ISAM
Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP)(Sabinet)
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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.
African Journals
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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
SA Media (Sabinet)
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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.