Provides extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Provides full-text for nearly 3200 scholarly publications covering social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
African Journals OnLine (AJOL) is a platform of African-published scholarly journals. It also hosts open access journals.
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A news clipping services collection comprising over 5,4 million articles. With an average of 2500 new articles added weekly, SA Media (News Clippings) is a comprehensive research tool that allows you to search local mainstream publications.
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Enhance your discovery process with a navigable network of arts and humanities research.
Nursing, allied health, biomedicine, and healthcare. Includes seventeen allied health disciplines, plus biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.
ClinicalKey provides standardized medical knowledge across your organization to promote consistent, evidence-based practices, including full-text reference books and journals, synoptic content, drug information, videos, practice guidelines, customized patient education handouts, clinical calculators, and more
This database provides information on South African current and completed research projects including theses and dissertations. Navtech is included in this database. 1919-
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) database is the most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses in the world. Multidisciplinary dissertations
EBSCOhost is an online research platform which searches several multi-disciplinary databases
General OneFile allows researchers to find the information they want quickly
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. See http://libguides.sun.ac.za/c.php?g=743008&p=5316211 for a guide on Access to full text articles via Google Scholar
It provides information about academic journals in the natural sciences and social sciences, including impact factors.
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.
Global ETD Search. Search the 6,508,685 electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive: advanced search tips how to contribute records.
OpenDOAR is the quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. You can search and browse through thousands of registered repositories.
Please create an account, following the steps at https://shorturl.at/2ktSh to register upon using the platform for the first time. Use the University Login thereafter.
PressReader provides online access to over 7 200 newspapers and magazines, including more than 200 from South Africa. Available on any smartphone, tablet or laptop. Articles or full publications may be downloaded to be read when offline.
The following South African titles have been removed from PressReader:
Media24 (effective 4 November 2020)
Die Burger
Beeld
Rapport
Volksblad
Witness
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Social Sciences, Telecommunications, Education, Science, Engineering, Dissertations & Thesis, Business, Economics, Medical, Agriculture and Computing.
PsycARTICLES, from the American Psychological Association (APA), is a definitive source of full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 137,000 articles from 66 journals - 50 published by the APA, and its imprint the Educational Publishing Foundation (EPF), and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychology Association and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
PLOS is a nonprofit, Open Access publisher empowering researchers to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication
Citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books
This service is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform which focuses on information originating from or pertaining to Africa. Previously SA ePublications
This platform will provide you with a single entry point to seamlessly search Sabinet's reference products.
SAGE publishes more than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences and Science, Technology, and Medicine.
Sage Open is a peer-reviewed, Gold open access journal that publishes original research and review articles in an open access format. Accepted articles span the full extent of the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities
Resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions
Full-text journals published by Elsevier. See attached training guide for activating remote access.
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.
Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals.
Springer’s portfolio of 200+ peer-reviewed fully open access journals across all areas of science
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E-theses & dissertations
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The THE World University Rankings provide the definitive list of the world's best universities, with an emphasis on the research mission.
The Web of Science contains a remarkable treasure of data on scientific content, impact, and collaborations from 1900 to the present day on a global scale.
Wiley Online Library hosts a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Our authoritative and peer-reviewed, fully gold open access journals span across diverse research disciplines.
