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Databases

A database is an organised collection of books, journals, reviews, abstracts, conference proceedings and other information that has been checked for accuracy and reliability by publishers, then licensed for distribution in an online or electronic format.

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These are the core databases, which the library subscribes to for your research needs:

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.
Emerald eJournals Premier
Emerald eJournals Premier (on the Emerald Insight platform) is the most comprehensive, cross-disciplinary journal database, featuring the latest peer-reviewed, international research in both established and emerging areas of interest. Designed as the most unified content offering, eJournals Premier combines Management Database and Specialist Collections, providing the full breadth of Emerald’s high quality publishing from leading researchers around the world.

Google Scholar (Advanced Search screen) This link opens in a new window
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.

JSTOR

APA PsycARTICLES This link opens in a new window
PsycARTICLES (EbscoHost) is a definitive source of searchable full text articles on current issues in psychology. The PsycARTICLES database covers general psychology and specialized, basic, applied, clinical and theoretical research in psychology. The database contains more than 39,000 searchable full text articles from 44 journals published by the American Psychological Association and 8 from allied organizations.

Sabinet African Journals (previously SA ePublications)
Available via Sabinet, this database provides full-text access to journals published in South Africa.

Sabinet Reference This link opens in a new window
This platform will provide you with a single entry point to seamlessly search Sabinet's reference products, including OAIster, OCLC's FirstSearch Service, SA Media, SA ePublications, foreign and local dissertations- and theses databases, to name but a handful.
Sage Journals Online This link opens in a new window
SAGE Journals Online prestigious and highly cited journals are available electronically on the award-winning SAGE Journals Online platform. Search across 560 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Science Direct
Access to the world's largest scientific, technical and medical (STM) database. Over 1700 journals from Elsevier Science including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron. Over three million articles and over 59 million abstracts from all fields of science. Users may access full-text and bibliographic information as well as contents pages of journals.

Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
Wiley InterScience is a leading international provider of scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals. In 2008, Wiley InterScience incorporated the online content formerly hosted on Blackwell Synergy to provide access to over 3 million articles.

EBSCOhost
EbscoHost Web allows you to access more than two dozen different databases covering a vast multitude of subjects. These databases can be searched individually (by clicking on the name of the database), or a few at a time (by selecting the check box next to those you wish to search), or all at once (by checking the Select All check box). Most databases provide full text access to articles from scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers. Some of the databases available via the EBSCOhost platform are multi-disciplinary, like "Academic Search Premier", for example.

SpringerLink This link opens in a new window
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.
Taylor and Francis eJournals This link opens in a new window
UWC Library offers access to 1797 journal titles on the Taylor & Francis platform, at https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.uwc.ac.za/. Coverage is from 1997 to present.

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