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Access World News (via Newsbank) (Open Athens) This link opens in a new window
Global news which includes the following collections: World,South African Titles, Mail & Guardian (Johannesburg, South Africa), America's News Magazines,Rand Daily Mail (1902-1985), Apartheid: Global Perspectives (1946-1996), FBIS Daily Reports (1974-1996) Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa, African Newspapers Series 1-2 (1800-1922) (World Newspaper Archive)Coverage: Varied until the present dayFull Text
Political Science Complete (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Includes Political Risk Yearbook.
Coverage: 1920 to the present
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SAIRR (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
South African Institute of Race Relations
Research, statistical data, policy critiques, forecasts and risk analysis on South Africa’s household issues
Includes the annual South African Survey
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SpringerLink (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Covers books, journals, reference works, protocols and databases within the fields of science, technology, and medicine. UJs journal subscription includes:
Journal Online Archives Collection : V1 (1) to 1996 - Full text
Journal Current Collection: 1996 to the present - Full text
SpringerOpen Collection - Full text access to journals
Featured Library Databases:
Chinese Library of Science - Bibliographic;
Russian Library of Science - Bibliographic
No full text access to e-Book chapters or Protocols
Women's Studies International (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies in the areas of Sociology, History, Political science and Economy, Public policy, International relations, Arts and Humanities, Business and Education
Coverage: 1972 to present
Abstracts
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Academic Search Ultimate (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Journals, magazines covering Astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology.
Africa -Wide (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Including the former SA Studies, African Studies, African HealthLine databases and NELM (National English Literary Museum)
Essential resource for African research, and information on and about Africa.
Mainly a bibliographic database
Coverage: Varied; earliest 1500, to the present day
Bibliographic or Abstracts
Multidisciplinary Databases
EBSCOhost (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
A collection of scholarly works covering a wide variety of topics. Content include literature on Africa and South Africa.
Format: Mostly full text. Coverage varies according to content
EBSCOhost eBook Collection (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
A collection of electronic books on a variety of topics.
Format: Full text.
Some titles date back to 1863, but the majority of content is from 1999-present
JSTOR (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Archive of scholarly journals in Arts and Sciences and Business and Life sciences
Coverage for most journals begins at volume 1, issue 1, and continues up to the most recent 3-5 years of publication
Taylor & Francis Online (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Full text access to over 1750 high quality academic journals published by companies in the Taylor & Francis Group. Subject coverage includes the sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.
15 Open access journal titles are available on this database.
Interface language can be viewed in 66 languages incl. Afrikaans (via Google translation)
Coverage: Vol. 1 no. 1+
Abstracts and full text to UJ subscribed titles
Women's Studies International (OpenAthens) This link opens in a new window
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies in the areas of Sociology, History, Political science and Economy, Public policy, International relations, Arts and Humanities, Business and Education
Coverage: 1972 to present
Abstracts
Partly full text