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• Search Google Scholar
• Be cautious: Google Scholar also lists predatory journals
• How to connect your Google Scholar to Stellenbosch Library e-journals A-Z

• KNOVEL (full text books [chemistry and other science topics] & chemical property searches, equations, unit converter searches and many more tools!)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
  (includes  access to 10+ online encyclopedias in the Environmental & Science subjects) 
• Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
  R*577.03 ENC
• Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry
  R*572.03 ENC
• Encyclopedia of Biological Invasion
  and in print R*578.6203 ENC
• Encyclopedia of Biological Invasive Species
  R*578.62 WOO
• Encyclopedia of Environmental Microbiology
  R*579.1703 BIT
• Encyclopedia of Food Microbiology
• Encyclopedia of Geology
• Encyclopedia of Human Biology
  R*612.003 ENC
• Encyclopedia of Life Sciences
  R*570.3 ENC

• Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Communication R*501.4 ENC

Examples of HARVARD referencing style

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Search and find full text peer review articles on ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is a multidisciplinary database that includes a large range of journals relevant to all BSc subjects. ScienceDirect also includes several electronic books. and encyclopedias

Explore ScienceDirect TOPICS.  The topic pages provide a comprehensive database of reliable background and contextual knowledge making it easy to get up to speed with new and unfamiliar concepts

Building blocks of a search:

• AND:  both terms that you connect with AND must be somewhere in the bibliographic record for that record to be retrieved.  AND narrows a search and retrieves fewer articles:
           antibiotics AND probiotics will find both terms in the record

• OR:  only one of the search terms combined with OR is required for the bibliographic record to be retrieved.  OR broadens a search and retrieves more articles. Applies also for related or synonym terms:
          polymerase chain reaction OR PCR
           corn OR maize

• NOT:  excludes or ignore a particular subset, category, or term.  NOT requires the presence of one search term and the exclusion of another.
            moths NOT butterflies

• Phrase Searching: Adding quotation marks around a phrase, such as "bushy top syndrome" will tell the database to search for these words together, rather than separately:
           "microbial ecology" versus microbial and ecology

• Truncating (using the *) is a good strategy to use for some terms:
           microb*  will give the following results: microbe, microbial, microbiome, microbiology, microbolometer,etc. (Choose your * wisely)

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