Database Name |
Database Web
Address |
About the Database |
Academic
Search Premier |
http://search.ebscohost.com |
Provides journal coverage
for most academic areas of study—including biological
sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences,
engineering, language and linguistics, arts and
literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
Fulltext and available through EBSCOHOST. |
Africa-Wide:
NIPAD |
http://biblioline.nisc.com |
Incorporating South
African Studies and African Studies. This is a
product of NISC. |
AidSearch |
http://biblioline.nisc.com |
Incorporates AIDSLINE,
AIDSTRIAL, and AIDSDRUGS. This is a product of NISC. |
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|
http://search.sabinet.co.za/ |
Articles from 93 international
and South African journals were indexed over the
years to enable users to access information on architects,
buildings, building materials and methods, design
theory, urban design, and much more. This database
is updated on Sabinet
|
Biological
Abstracts (BA) |
http://web5.silverplatter.com |
BA is the leading
abstracting and indexing reference publication for
life sciences information. |
Book
Data |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Offers full bibliographic
information on forthcoming, new and in-print titles,
and also includes short descriptions of titles.
Users will be able to determine title availability
for acquisition purposes. Available through Sabinet. |
Business
Searching Interface |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
BSI provides
an easy way to both browse and search for country
economic data, company profiles, industry information
and market research. This database is updated daily
on EBSCOhost.
|
Business
Source Premier |
http://search.ebscohost.com |
Business Source
Premier is the industry’s most used business
research database, providing full text for more
than 2,300 journals, including full text for more
than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.
Fulltext and available through EBSCOHOST. |
Cement
and Concrete |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Contains more than 40
000 technical references on all aspects of cement
and concrete. These references reflect the physical
collection of books, conference proceedings, pamphlets,
journals and electronic media. Available through
Sabinet. |
Current
& Completed Research |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Contains South African
research projects and covers the social sciences,
humanities, economic and management sciences. It
includes masters and doctoral theses of South African
universities, and technikons as well as information
on research projects from non-governmental organisations,
private sector and government departments. Available
through Sabinet. |
Daily
Law Reports |
http://search.sabinet.co.za
|
Court case judgements
(Juta Law). Available through Sabinet
Legal products. |
Emerald |
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ft |
Emerald currently publishes
more than 160 journal titles in the fields of management,
information science and engineering. |
Encyclopaedia
Britannica |
http://.search.eb.com/ |
Britannica online has
access to multiple resources from one location,
delivering search results with a range of content
including encyclopedia articles, multimedia, related
Web sites, magazines, and much more. |
ERIC
(Educational Resource Information Center) |
http://search.ebscohost.com |
ERIC provides
full text of more than 2,200 digests along with
references for additional information and citations
and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related
journals. Available through EBSCOHOST. |
Fiction |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
The Fiction database
includes different formats of fiction records e.g.
printed, Braille and sound recordings, from various
library collections in Southern Africa. Available
through Sabinet. |
FirstSearch |
http://firstsearch.oclc.org/ |
FirstSearch provides
seamless electronic access to dozens of World databases
and more than 10 million full-text and full-image
articles. Available through OCLC. |
Forestry |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Forestry covers a unique
pamphlet collection from forestry, wood science
and nature conservation research institutes. Publications
of all major South African Forestry and Forestry
related institutes and companies; a complete set
of reports of the South African Department of Forestry
and proceedings of major international and national
forestry conferences. Available through Sabinet. |
GreenFile |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
Offers well-researched
information covering all aspects of human impact
to the environment. Its collection of scholarly,
government and general-interest titles includes
content on global warming, green building, pollution,
sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling,
and more. Available through EBSCOHOST. |
Health
Source – Consumer edition |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
This resource provides
access to full text, consumer health magazines.
Also includes searchable full text for health-related
pamphlets and 130 health reference books, including
books published by the People's Medical Society.
Available through EBSCOHOST. |
Health
Source – Nursing / Academic Edition |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
Provides scholarly full
text journals, including peer-reviewed journals
focusing on many medical disciplines. Available
through EBSCOHOST. |
InterScience |
|
Wiley InterScience
is a leading international resource for quality
content promoting discovery across the spectrum
of scientific, technical, medical and professional
endeavours. |
ISAP
(Index to South African Periodicals) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
ISAP covers indexed
articles from South African periodicals. Available
through Sabinet. |
IBSS
(International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) |
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com |
IBSS contains bibliographic
information from an international selection of publications
in the fields of economics, political science, sociology,
and anthropology. |
ISI
– Web of Knowledge |
http://portal.isiknowledge.com |
ISI Web of Knowledge
delivers easy access to high quality, diversified
scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences,
and arts and humanities. It contains Science Citation
Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index
and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. |
Kovsidex |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Includes references
for both local and foreign books and journal articles,
some of which have been obtained through organisations
such as Unesco, IIEP, IBE, OECD, IRDC and the Council
of Europe. Also includes Research Institute for
Education Planning (Riep) which covers a wide range
of reference works on the theory and practice of
education dating back to 1975-1997. Available through
Sabinet. |
Library,
Information Science & Technology Abstracts |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
This multidisciplinary
database provides full text for more than 1,750
general reference publications with full text information
dating as far back as 1975. Available through
EBSCOHOST. |
Marketline |
http://www.marketlineinfo.com |
MarketLine has industry
profiles and country information. |
MasterFile
Premier |
http://search.ebscohost.com |
MasterFILE Premier
provides full text for more than 1,730 general periodicals
covering a broad range of disciplines including
general reference, business, education, health,
general science, multi-cultural issues and much
more. Available through EBSCOHOST. |
MEDLINE
|
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
Provides authoritative
medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry,
veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical
sciences, and much more. Available through EBSCOHOST.
|
Mintek |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
A bibliographic database
containing the results of Mintek's original research
in the fields of metals and industrial minerals.
Topics include economic geology, mineralogy, minerals
engineering, extraction technology, hydrometallurgy,
hydrometallurgy, biotechnology, process chemistry,
measurement and control, environmental control and
physical metallurgy. Available through Sabinet. |
Navtech
(SA Technikon Research) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
The Technikon Research
Database (Navtech) contains information on current
and completed research projects undertaken at South
African technikons. Available through Sabinet. |
NDLTD
(Theses and Dissertations) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Data harvested from
OCLC's XTCat
database. Available through Sabinet. |
NETLAW |
http://search.sabinet.co.za
|
The SA Legislation database
that provides access to amended acts with
rules, regulations and forms. NetLaw
offers immediate
access to the most significant acts and their regulations,
made available as soon as they have been amended.
Available through Sabinet
Legal products. |
Newspaper
Source |
http://search.ebscohost.com |
Newspaper Source
provides cover-to-cover full text for national (U.S.)
& international newspapers. Available through
EBSCOHOST. |
NEXUS |
http://stardata.nrf.ac.za/index.html |
Nexus is the Research
and Knowledge Networking Databases in South Africa.
It contains Current and Completed Research Projects
in South African academic Institutions. Nexus is
a product of NRF. |
Oxford
Dictionary |
http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html |
Oxford Reference Online
contains about 100 dictionary, language reference,
and subject reference works published by Oxford
University Press. |
Oxford
Journals |
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/ |
OJ is a major international
publisher of academic and research journals. Its collection
covers Life Sciences, Mathematics & Physical Sciences,
Medicine, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law, and
includes some of the most authoritative.
|
Parliamentary
Bills |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
The Bills provide access
to the South African Bills as introduced to the
National Assembly. Available through Sabinet
Legal products. |
PlanUp |
http://search.sabinet.co.za/ |
The database includes
diverse, research reports, articles, frameworks,
sketches and photographs of archives of the department
of architecture at the University of Pretoria. This
database is updated on Sabinet.
|
Provincial
Legislation |
http://search.sabinet.co.za
|
Offers full-text online
legal and legislative information. South African
provincial legislation (Juta Law) Available through
Sabinet
Legal products. |
Regional
Business News |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
Regional Business News
incorporates 75 business journals, newspapers and
newswires covering all metropolitan and rural areas
within the United States. Available through EBSCOHOST. |
SACat |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
SACat reflects the collection
of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic
information referring to books, periodicals, audiovisual
items and other information material. Available
through Sabinet. |
SA
ePublications |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
This is the first service
that brings together, soon after publication, the
tables of contents, abstracted records, and full-text
documents of many journals published in South Africa
in a single user-friendly service. Available through
Sabinet. |
SAGEOLIT |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Contains information
on geosciences’ publications, selected from journal
articles, publications of symposia, and published
and unpublished reports and maps held by the Information
Centre of the Council for Geosciences (CGS). Available
through Sabinet. |
SA
Government Gazette |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
Provides access to the
full text South African Government Gazette and Weekly
Government Gazette Index. The database includes
acts, bills, draft bills, green papers, white papers,
and regulations published in the Government Gazette.
Available through Sabinet
Legal products. |
SA
Media (SA Newspapers) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
SA Media covers more
than 120 South African newspapers and periodicals.
Available through Sabinet. |
SANB
(South African National Bibliography) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
SANB is an accumulation
of the bibliographic records of all items published
in South Africa. Available through Sabinet. |
SA
Statutes |
http://search.sabinet.co.za
|
Acts applicable in South
Africa (Juta Law). Available through Sabinet
Legal products. |
ScienceDirect |
http://www.sciencedirect.com/ |
ScienceDirect is the
world's largest electronic collection of science,
technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic
information. |
Subsidie
|
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
The Database of Approved
Research Periodicals (NASOP 02-014). It lists all
periodicals approved as research platforms. Available
through Sabinet. |
Teacher
Reference Center |
http://search.ebscohost.com
|
Provides indexing and
abstracts for more than 270 of the most popular
teacher and administrator journals and magazines
to assist professional educators. Available through
EBSCOHOST. |
UCTD
(Union Catalogue for Thesis and Dissertations) |
http://search.sabinet.co.za |
UCTD contains bibliographic
records of theses and dissertations at master and
doctorate level submitted to universities in South
Africa. Honorary doctorates are also included.
Available through Sabinet. |
Water
Resources Worldwide |
http://biblioline.nisc.com |
Water Resources
Worldwide combines’ databases on all facets
of international and African water research. This
is a product of NISC. |
World
Catalogue |
http://worldcat.org/ |
WorldCat is the world's
largest network of library content and services. |
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