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Botany & Zoology: Journals, Magazines and Newspapers

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2) Search A-Z list of e-journals by journal title, OR
3)  Search article titles on Google Scholar  
4) Enhance your search strategies with Google Scholar

Science Magazines

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PressReader provides online access to over 7200 newspapers and magazines.
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Key databases for Botany and Zoology

Scopus 
Scopus from Elsevier is a comprehensive abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with links to full text.. Features tools to track, analyse and visualize research and provides bibliometrics for researchers' output.
Training material


Web of Science
Web of Science from Thomson Reuters provides access to Science Citation Index and Journal Citations Reports. Provides links to full text. Features tools to track, analyse and visualize research and provides bibliometrics for researchers' output.
Training material


Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) 
Open access to biodiversity legacy literature and taxonomic literature.


CAB Direct
Comprehensive databases for the applied life sciences.


CABI Invasive Species Compendium
A power search of invasive species datasheets. Lists of datasheets can be retrieved by filtering on taxonomy, risk and impact factors and pathways of introduction.


ScienceDirect
Science Direct is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters.
Training material


JSTOR Global Plants
Global Plants lets herbaria share their plant type specimens and experts determine and update plant names. The database is an essential resource for institutions supporting research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.


Search PATENTS  as an additional source for information.


Full text South African and African journals
Searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform. Also indexed in SCOPUS  and selected titles on Web of Science.


SciFinder Discovery
The choice for chemistry research: a one-stop search for: substances (editor for chemical structure drawing available), reactions, journal references, MethodsNow, retrosynthesis planning,  patents, and commercial source data.
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Online access to Current Protocols


Most widely used protocols published for the last 2 years in Bio-protocol on cell imaging, neuroscience and cancer research


An open access repository for science methods

An open repository of community-contributed protocols sponsored by Nature Research


To search ALL Wiley protocols click HERE (Tip: select the Advanced Search if you want to refine your results after the first search)
Please note that we have full text access to the following Wiley protocols:

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics 2003+

Current Protocols in Cell Biology Online 1998-2017

Current Protocols in Immunology 1991-2015

Current Protocols in Molecular Biology 1987+

Current Protocols in Nucleic Acid Chemistry 1999-2016

Current Protocols in Pharmacology 1998-2016

Current Protocols in Protein Science 1995+

Current Protocols in Toxicology 1999-2016