Library Databases

AAC Approved Methods – Internationally accepted tools for assessing quality and safety of grains and grain products. This collection of collaboratively evaluated methods enables food scientists in industry, academia, and government to ensure consumers have high quality and nutritious foods. Used to: maintain or test for quality of ingredients or products; to meet regulatory requirements; to ensure food safety of ingredients or products; to meet nutrition labeling requirements; to facilitate product development; to solve practical problems; to describe and document protocols used in innovative research; and to train laboratory staff & to teach analytical testing.

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African Journals Online (AJOL) – Multidisciplinary. World’s largest and preeminent platform for hosting African-published scholarly journals. AJOL covers a variety of disciplines including Health; Education; Agriculture; Science and Technology; Environmental Sciences; and Arts and Culture.

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ANATOMY.TV – The world’s leading and most accurate online anatomy and physiology solution containing 3D models built from real scan data. Primal Pictures’ content is peer-reviewed, medically accurate and clinically relevant, ensuring the most realistic representation of human anatomy. The depth of its 3D content ranges across the spectrum of gross anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, review and assessment, along with a range of medical specialties to meet diverse learning and teaching needs across health science disciplines..

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Britannica IMAGE QUEST – Multidisciplinary. Provides access to nearly 3 million images from the world’s best image collection such Getty Images and Science Photo Library. Images are rights-cleared for educational use.        

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Cambridge Core – Multidisciplinary. Provides access to academic content from Cambridge University Press with over 1.6 million peer-reviewed journal articles and 36,000+ eBooks in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine, Humanities, Law and Social Sciences.     

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Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) – Multidisciplinary. A comprehensive freely available directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals. Covers all areas of Science, Technology, Medicine, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

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EBSCOhost – Multidisciplinary.  An online research platform offering a variety of popular proprietary research full text databases, eBooks and eJournals from leading information providers. Databases range from multi discipline subject-specific databases to general reference collections.

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Emerald Insight – Multidisciplinary.  Provides abstracts and full text articles from academic journals covering the subject areas of Marketing, Management, Human Resources, Quality, Economics, Information Management, Operations, Engineering, Production and Property, Education, Health and Social Care.

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Google Scholar –   Provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research

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IRESS Expert –  A South African financial reporting database; provides historical and fundamental information on South African and international listed and unlisted companies. Covers published financials from 1988, standardized financials from 1971, and preliminary and interim financials.

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JoVe – The Journal of Visualized Experiments is the world’s first peer-reviewed scientific video journal. It contains dynamic presentations of methods, data analyses, and results to teach new experimental techniques and improve reproducibility. Articles are published in the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, and physical sciences.                                  

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JSTOR – Multidisciplinary. Full text content of leading academic journals in Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. 

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The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) – This platform enables searching through international electronic theses 

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Oxford Academic Journals – Multidisciplinary. A collection of Oxford University Press (OUPs) academic and research journals in the fields of Arts, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Health, Science, Mathematics and Social Sciences.

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PressReader – Access to hundreds of South African, African and international daily newspapers and magazines online.

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ProQuest – Multidisciplinary. Provides access to thousands of full text scholarly journals, books, trade publications, magazines, reports, dissertations, newspapers and videos in the fields of Health and Medicine, Language and literature, Sociology, History, Politics, Education, Religion and Theology, Humanities, Philosophy, Business studies and Entrepreneurship.

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ProQuest eBook Central – Multidisciplinary. Provides authoritative, full-text e-books in a wide range of subject areas along with powerful tools to find, use, and manage the information. Subject coverage includes; Business & Economics, Computers & It, Education, Engineering & Technology, History & Political Science, Humanities, Interdisciplinary & Area Studies, Language, Literature & Linguistics, Law, International Relations & Public Policy, Life Sciences, Medical, Nursing & Allied Health, Physical Sciences, Psychology & Social Work, Religion, Philosophy & Classics, and Sociology & Anthropology.

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Sabinet  – Multidisciplinary. The ultimate information services tool providing seamless access to comprehensive African Legal, News and Research Content. research content includes online African journals from various disciplines including Business, Finance, Education, Law, Medicine, Health, Religion and Social Sciences.

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SAGE Journals – Multidisciplinary. Full text journals from a covering a wide range of disciplines such as Social Sciences, Humanities, and other diverse subject areas.

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SAGE Research Methods  – Multidisciplinary. The ultimate methods library with more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the Social Sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. 

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ScienceDirect – Multidisciplinary. Contains over 10 million full text articles and book chapters published by Elsevier Publishers. covered subjects includes Physical Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

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SciFinder – A curated database of chemical and bibliographic information that covers several scientific and biomedical fields, with an emphasis on chemistry. SciFinder contains a wide variety of content from journal articles to information on chemical structures, properties, and reactions.

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Springer Nature – Multidisciplinary. A range of high-quality journals, products, and services across Social, Physical, Chemical and Applied Sciences. This includes online journals and databases.

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Taylor & Francis Online – Multidisciplinary.  One of the world’s leading publishers of scholarly journals and Books. Content encompasses all areas of Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Health Sciences, Science, Technology, History, Communication Science, Languages, Sociology and Medicine.

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Web of Science – Multidisciplinary. A bibliographic citation database providing an index of current to current and retrospective international multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals across the world. Covers Social Sciences, Humanities and Sciences from 1972 to present.

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Wiley Online Library – Multidisciplinary. Full-text journals covering: Agriculture; Finance & Accounting; Economics, Business and Management; Engineering; Chemistry; Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Computing and Technology: Life and Health Sciences; Humanities; Social Sciences; Mathematics and Statistics; and Law & Criminology.

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