Science: Articles/Journals

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.

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

Contains over 180 titles in the fields of management information science and engineering.

ERIC is an index for all education topics. ERIC indexes journal articles in 1 000 education-related journals. Abstracts are provided. Some full text journal articles are available. ERIC indexes ERIC Documents. These are education materials not published elsewhere such as curriculum guides, various research reports, and conference papers.

IEEE Xplore is a digital library providing full text access to the world’s highest quality technical literature in electrical engineering computer science, and electronics. IEEE Xplore contains full text documents from IEEE journals, transactions, magazines letters, conference proceedings, standards, and IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) publications.

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.

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.

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.

Designed specifically for public libraries this multidisciplinary database provides full text for nearly 1 750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 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 & flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

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.

The PsycINFO database American Psychological Associations (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books and dissertations, is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed literature in behaviorual science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back as the early 1800s. Journal coverage which spans from 1887 to present includes international material selected from more than 2 400 periodicals in more than 27 languages.

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

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.

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.

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

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