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Undergraduate Student Support: Databases

This library guide strives to provide e-support for undergraduate students at the NWU.

Tips on how to Choose a Database

For South African journal articles, search in:

African Journals
Provides articles on South-African Content (Recommended)
SA Media
Newspaper clippings with South-African content (Recommended)

And for international scholarly journals, search:

WorldCat Discovery searches in almost all the resources the Library subscribes to in one easy search. Read more about WorldCat Discovery.

WorldCat Discovery

Additional:

Special Collections
Maintained by the Ferdinand Postma Library e.g. Exam papers.

Online Journal Databases

A database is an organised set or body of data/information held within a computer system.

Online journal databases

provide access to information in journals
cover all fields of study
can be general or subject-specific regarding content
can be accessed via the websites of academic libraries

Quick Links

eBooks@NWU
WorldCat Discovery Search
How to search for textbooks
WorldCat A-Z List
Google Scholar
Use this search box to see the NWU full text link next to the search results:
African Journals
Boloka: NWU Institutional Repository (NWU-IR)
EBSCOhost
Emerald Insight Journals
JSTOR
Juta
LexisNexis
PressReader
You can access PressReader via your computer or mobile app.
How to log on:
- Always use the PressReader link on the Library web page. It has a built-in proxy address that will recognise you as a registered student/staff member.
- First-time users must authenticate via their computer before they use the mobile app. After that, you can read newspapers and magazines via the PressReader App on your phone if that is your preference.
- PressReader offers offsite access to the platform. That means you can use PressReader after leaving the University premises for seven days via the App. After seven days, you need to re-authenticate via your computer from the library page (authentication via your computer from the Library web page will also work off-campus). If you read PressReader via your computer, using the PressReader link on the Library web page is unnecessary to re-authenticate.
Sabinet Discover
ScienceDirect
Scopus
How to find your H-index in Scopus
- YouTube video: How to check H-index in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar
How to find Altmetrics in Scopus
Track your online research activity
- Altmetrics from Scopus will only appear when data is available.
- Scopus captures the following data:
  - total number of times popular media mentions the article
  - total number of mentions of an article in a blog, Tweets, or other social media posts
  - citation impact as compared to articles of similar subjects
  - if or when it is added to Mendeley library
  - mentions in Wikipedia articles
  - Video: How to view document metrics in Scopus
  - Video: Overview of journal metrics in Scopus
  - Video: How to assess an author's impact in Scopus
Web of Science
How to find your H-index in Web of Science
- YouTube video: How to check H-index in Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar

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