LibGuides: Public Management & Governance: Journal Articles / Databases

Key Databases

Google Scholar 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.
African Journals This service allows you to discover articles about African content covering various topics. Our collection of journal subjects includes:Open Access African Journal ArchiveBusiness and FinanceEducationLabourLawMedicine and HealthScience, Technology and AgricultureReligionSocial Sciences and HumanitiesJuta's Law Collection
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EBSCOhost Select the following databases on EbscoHost:Academic Search PremierAfrica-Wide InformationBusiness Source PremierE-JournalsMasterFile PremierSocINDEX with full text
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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.
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Emerald Insight Journals Contains over 180 titles in the fields of management information science and engineering.
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Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP)(Sabinet) 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.
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Scopus Scopus is the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources.
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Web of Science 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.
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ScienceDirect 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.
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IMD World Competitiveness Online 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.
Africa Portal The Africa Portal is a research repository and an expert analysis hub on African affairs.
We are dedicated to publishing and promoting research and analysis African from think tanks and thought leaders (academics, researchers, journalists and industry experts) on policy issues across a variety of fields. We also produce thematic series on critical issues dominating the African and global policy agenda.
Our open-access research repository holds over 10 000 reports, occasional papers and policy briefs which are available for free, full-text download. Research publications on the Africa Portal are primarily provided by our content partners who benefit from wider dissemination of their research to a global community. Our key research themes are:
- Politics and Governance;
- Economics;
- Energy and Environment ;
- Health;
- Peace and Security;
- Human Rights;
- Foreign Policy;
- Information and Communications Technology; and
- Education

Law Databases

Juta 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.
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LexisNexis LexisNexis provides access to SA legislation, cases and commentary. Please contact Bulelwa Gcawu if you need a username and password.
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Sabinet Legal Access to Government Gazettes, Municipal By-Laws, and Provincial Gazettes

Additional Databases

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