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Subject Specific Databases
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Access Engineering (OpenAthens)
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E-book database derived from McGraw-Hill latest editions of print titles e.g. :Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers; Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook; Standard Handbook for Electrical Engineers; Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms; Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, etc.
Covering 14 major areas of engineering, Coverage varies per title
Full Text. To download PDFs you need to register to create an account (click on "Register" to create an account within Access Engineering)
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Compendex (via Engineering Village) (OpenAthens)
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Compendex is the most authoritative database of abstracted and indexed literature in engineering and the applied physical sciences. Compendex covers subjects in every engineering discipline including: Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mining Engineering, Chemical Engineering.
Content: Includes over 3600 journals,100 conference proceedings and trade magazines indexed annually.
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Engineering Village (OpenAthens)
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Access to the COMPENDEX and INSPEC literature citation databases covering all engineering disciplines and related subjects.
EV2 includes different information resources:
Compendex: Coverage: 1884 to the present; abstracts
Inspec: Coverage: 1896 to the present; abstracts
Referex: E-books and engineering reference material on:
Electrical Engineering and Electronics
Mechanical Engineering and Materials
Coverage: 1987 to the present; full text
Espacenet: (Open access) Coverage: 1996 to the present; full text patents.
IHS Standards: (Open access) Bibliographic citations of technical standards.
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INSPEC (OpenAthens)
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Created by the Institution of Engineering and Technology, a bibliographic database providing abstracts and indexing to the world’s scientific and technical papers. Provides coverage from over 5,000 journals, more than 2,500 conference proceedings as well as numerous books, dissertations, patents and reports.
Multidisciplinary Database
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EBSCOhost (OpenAthens)
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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
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Journal Citation Reports (OpenAthens)
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A tool for journal evaluation, using citation data drawn from over 11,000 journals in the areas of science and technology as well as the social sciences.
Format: Full text and abstracts
Coverage varies according to content
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JSTOR (OpenAthens)
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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
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ProQuest Central (OpenAthens)
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A collection of databases that provides information on all subject areas.
Format: Full text
Coverage varies according to content
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SAGE Journals Online (OpenAthens)
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Peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of subject areas.
Coverage: 1879 to present
Bibliographic and abstracts
Partly full text - only to UJ journal subscriptions
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Scopus (OpenAthens)
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A database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. It offers smart tools to track, analyse, and visualize research.
Mostly full-text
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Springer Materials (OpenAthens)
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SpringerMaterials provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and other related fields..
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Springer Nature Open Access Ebooks
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Springer Nature publishes open access (OA) books and chapters under its Springer, Palgrave Macmillan and Apress imprints. We helped to pioneer open access book publishing, first piloting open access publication for books in 2011. We publish open access books across a wide range of areas in science, technology,
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Taylor & Francis Online (OpenAthens)
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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
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Taylor and Francis eBooks (OpenAthens)
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Taylor & Francis provides access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly and academic titles supporting research, learning, and teaching. The platform includes books from Routledge, CRC Press, and other Taylor & Francis imprints, offering authoritative content across multiple disciplines. Users can search, read online, or download chapters for offline use.
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Wiley Online Library (OpenAthens)
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A broad multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
No full text access to e-Books and Lab Protocols
South African Content
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Africa-Wide Information (OpenAthens)
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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
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SA Media (OpenAthens)
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Please note: the following newspapers are currently not available via SA Media: Sunday Times, Business day, ,Sowetan, Financial Mail, Daily dispatch, The Herald, The Times, Weekend Post, Saturday Dispatch Until this issue is resolved please use African Newspapers
Contains records from South African newspapers and periodicals from 1978 onwards.
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Sabinet African Journals (formerly SA ePublications) (OpenAthens)
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Multidisciplinary information originating from or pertaining to Africa with a strong focus on South Africa.
Full-text.
Coverage: 2000 to the present.
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Who owns whom (OpenAthens)
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Who Owns Whom (WOW) covers 300+ key industries across the African continent and includes comprehensive industry research reports, company profiles and their African footprint, ownership and corporate structures, director and management profiles, takeover and merger activity and fixed direct investment into Africa.