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The most up to date research and insights, in a particular field, tend to found in journals as these published more frequently than books. A further advantage of journals is that they are reviewed by experts in the subject, so you can trust the content.
It is better to search across many journals using Journal Databases, some are included in the Key Journal Databases tab, above on the extreme right. You can also find and access online History research articles using the Databases by Discipline option on the library's website.
You can take a look at the video below to find out how to search for research articles and books using uKwazi.
Kronos: Southern African Histories
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nos: Southern African Histories is an open access journal published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape. It is an accredited South African journal that aims to promote and publicise high quality historical research. The journal encourages comparative research and the work of scholars in allied disciplines, and seeks to break new ground in its integration of visuals and text.
South African Historical Journal
Over the past 40 years, the South African Historical Journal has become renowned and internationally regarded as a premier history journal published in South Africa, promoting significant historical scholarship on the country as well as the southern African region. The journal, which is linked to the Southern African Historical Society, has provided a high-quality medium for original thinking about South African history and has thus shaped – and continues to contribute towards defining – the historiography of the region.
Databases often contain multiple records and for the best results you need to know how best to search them. The library offers training sessions on database use, and provides guides. You are also welcome to ask the Faculty Librarian to assist you
Google scholar can help you find many sources; however, many may not be accessible to you as UWC library may not have subscription with the publishers of the books or article you find.
Oxford University Press and a number of South African institutions affiliated with SANLIC have negotiated a Read and Publish deal for 2023-2025. Participating institutions (including UWC) have Read access to OUP’s full collection of over 500 journal titles. Affiliated authors can also publish in OUP’s hybrid journals, without paying article processing charges (APC’s). In addition, there is a 10% discount on APC’s for publishing in OUP’s fully open access titles.
SpringerLink provides full-text online access to Springer Nature's journals, E-books, reference works, and protocols included in our subscriptions and "preview-only" access to materials outside of our subscriptions. Subjects include: Biomedical Sciences, Business & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences and Geography, Economics, Education & Language, Energy, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Food Sciences & Nutrition, History, Law & Criminology, Life Sciences, Literature, Materials, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy & Religion, Physics, Political Science & International Relations, Psychology, Public Health, Social Sciences, and Statistics.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary navigational tool that contains records going back to the mid 1960s, offering newly-linked citations across the widest body of scientific abstracts available in one place. More coverage of scientific, technical, medical and social science literature (14,000 titles) than any other database.
Available via Sabinet, this database provides full-text access to journals published in Africa encompasses the breadth and depth of African research content by offering the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform. This service, which is easy to use and accessible anytime and anywhere, is a growing service Sabinet African Journals offers a user-friendly platform and encourages research efficacy. All international journal standards and statistics are adhered. The collection is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world.
Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.
- All cited references for all publications are fully indexed and searchable.
- Search across all authors and all author affiliations.
- Track citation activity with Citation Alerts.
- See citation activity and trends graphically with Citation Report.
- Use Analyze Results to identify trends and publication patterns.
Africa Knowledge Project, known as AKP, promotes Critical African Studies. It disseminates Africa-centered, evidence-based knowledge on Africa and African Diaspora.
The journals that AKP provides access to are as follows:
JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies
ProudFlesh: New Afrikan Journal of Culture, Politics and Consciousness
Journal on African Philosophy
West Africa Review
Biafran War Database
Enriching Resource Document & Language Archive
African Music Database
Ijele: Art eJournal of the African World
Kiswahili Story Database
Africa Commons: History and Culture is a comprehensive database for searching and discovering African materials from 1500 to today. It indexes African organizations, collections, and documents from archives around the world. Find books, magazines, newspapers, historical journals, government documents, oral history, photographs, art, music, videos, and more.
JSTOR is an online journal archive providing access to back issues of core scholarly journals in arts, humanities, business, social sciences, ecology, botany, language and literature. More than 2 million primary sources across four collections: Global Plants, 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. The artifacts, specimens, and documents in the collections are scanned at high resolution to enable detailed inspection of each item.
Newspaper Source (EbscoHost) database provides selected full text coverage for more than 240 newspapers and other sources. This collection includes cover-to-cover full text for USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor and The Times (London) as well as selected full text from more than 180 regional newspapers including: Boston Globe, Detroit Free Press, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, San Jose Mercury News, etc. Full text transcripts are also included from Face the Nation, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, 60 Minutes, O'Reilly Factor, Hannity & Colmes, National Public Radio, etc.
Cambridge Journals Online provides full text for over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Subject areas include African Studies, Agriculture, Anthropology, Biomedical Sciences, Business and Economics, History, Language and Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Philosophy, Earth Sciences, Molecular Biology, Law, Politics and many others.
Academic Search Ultimate (EbscoHost) offers an unprecedented collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals, including many journals indexed in leading citation indexes. The combination of academic journals, magazines, periodicals, reports, books and videos meets the needs of scholars in virtually every discipline ranging from astronomy, anthropology, biomedicine, engineering, health, law and literacy to mathematics, pharmacology, women’s studies, zoology and more.
Open Access is the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives. While many of the databases contain open access material there are specific open access data bases and repositories that you can access directly.
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