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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry  
Academic Search Premier                                        
Academic Research Library
Africa-Wide: NiPAD
AIDSearch
ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS
Art Full Text
Biotechnology Abstracts: Agricultural & Environmental                                        

Business Source Complete
Career and Technical Education
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption
CINAHL with Full Text
CINAHL Select
Clinical Pharmacology                    
Compendex
DataMonitor
Design and Applied Arts Index
Dissertations & Theses: The Sciences and Engineering
Emerald Fulltext
ERIC                                                          
FSTA
Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index
Health & Medical Complete
Health Source - Consumer Edition
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Hospitality & Tourism Complete                
JSTOR
MasterFILE Premier
MEDLINE
Newspaper Source
ProQuest Agriculture Journals
ProQuest Biology Journals
ProQuest Computing
ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest Medical Library
ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
ProQuest Psychology Journals
ProQuest Science Journals        
ProQuest Social Science Journals
ProQuest Telecommunications
Regional Business News
SA ePublications
South African Industrial Relations Directory (SAIRD)
ScienceDirect
SPORTDiscus with Full Text                                    
SPORTDiscus Select
SpringerLink
Taxnet
U.S. National Newspaper Abstracts (3)
Water Resources Worldwide
Web of Science

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ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry                                                     

Business, Economics: trade and industry periodicals and newsletters

Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.

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Academic Search Premier

The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier  provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

 

 

Academic Research Library

Search for coverage of a broad range of subjects including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.

 

 

Africa-Wide: NiPAD

This new information resource provides information and inspiration to support The New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).

Access 2 million records with full-text links   

Africa-Wide is a combination of two of NISC’s most well-known and popular databases:

South African Studies and African Studies

All you need to know about Africa in one database

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AIDSearch

A combination of three database files providing information about Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and related topics.

AIDSDRUGS
AIDSDRUGS is a dictionary of chemical and biological agents currently being evaluated in the AIDS clinical trials covered in companion AIDSTRIALS database.  Each record represents a single substance and provides information such as standard chemical names, synonyms and trade names,etc

 

MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset
MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset includes citations covering research, clinical aspects and health policy issues related to AIDS. 

 

AIDSTRIALS (AIDS and clinical TRIALS)
AIDSTRIALS includes information about the clinical trials of substances being tested for use against AIDS, HIV infection, and AIDS-related opportunistic diseases. 

 

 

Analytical Abstracts

is the world's most comprehensive abstracts service dealing solely with analytical chemistry. It contains references to articles from more than 3000 journals, with coverage beginning in 1980.

Each reference to an article in ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS is called a record or a bibliographic citation. The full text of the articles is not given, but all items since 1984 contain abstracts of the principal analytical points in each article. ANALYTICAL ABSTRACTS is international in scope.

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Art Full Text

is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Full-text coverage for selected periodicals is also included. Periodical coverage includes English-language periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins, as well as periodicals published in French, Italian, German, Japanese, Spanish, Dutch, and Swedish. In addition to articles, Art Full Text indexes reproductions of works of art that appear in indexed periodicals. Indexing coverage begins 1984; abstracting coverage begins with January 1994. The abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full-text coverage begins in 1997.

 

 

Biotechnology Abstracts: Agricultural & Environmental

published by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, Biotechnology Abstracts: Agricultural & Environmental gathers the world literature in which 1molecular biology and genetics are applied to these areas. Coverage includes agricultural products involving both plants and animals, new applications across the food industry, and wide-ranging environmental developments. Plant genome studies, now the focus of major research initiatives around the world, are examined in detail. Approximately 3,600 abstracts, drawn from journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, technical reports, and other sources, are added each year.

 

 

Business Source Complete

This is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals.

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Career and Technical Education

Search vocational and technical periodicals covering all aspects of the Vo/Tech curriculum

 

 

Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption

Database is indispensable for researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and administrators working to prevent and treat child abuse and neglect, and to provide out-of-home placement and permanency planning services.

 

 

CINAHL with Full Text

provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health, with indexing back to 1937. CINAHL Plus with Full Text also contains searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals and provides full text for hundreds of journals, plus legal cases, clinical innovations, critical paths, drug records, research instruments and clinical trials. PDF backfiles to 1937 are also included.

 

CINAHL Select

is a valuable resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers. This database contains more than 170 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1973 including 120 peer-reviewed publications. All journals in this collection are indexed in CINAHL .CINAHL Select is updated on a weekly basis via  EBSCOhost.

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Clinical Pharmacology

provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically-relevant drug monographs for all U.S. prescription drugs, hard-to-find herbal and nutritional supplements, over-the-counter products and new and investigational drugs.

 

 

Compendex

Provides abstracts and full bibliographic citations for journal articles, conferences and reports in all engineering fields: covers worldwide engineering and technical literature from 1970 to date, as well as related fields in science. 

 

 

DataMonitor

Information on 10000 companies, 2000 industries and 50 countries

DataMonitor is a business information company specializing in industry analysis. A description of countries economic performance and GDP is also available.

Each company profile contains:  company and business description, history, key employees, SWOT analysis, competitors, etc. 

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Design and Applied Arts Index

contains over 130,000 annotated references from more than 500 design and craft journals and newspapers published from 1973 onwards, and data on over 50,000 designers, craftspeople, studios, workshops, firms etc., making it the largest index of its kind in the world. Research articles are covered, along with topical news items, conference and seminar reports, and book, video and exhibition reviews. Each reference includes full bibliographic details and a brief abstract.

 

 

Dissertations & Theses: The Sciences and Engineering

Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.

A comprehensive collection of scholarly research in the Sciences and Engineering, this database covers more than 1.7 million dissertations and theses.

 

 

Emerald Fulltext

Emerald currently publishes more than 160 journal titles in the fields of management, information science and engineering.

1996 Emerald Fulltext was launched. A dynamic database product, Emerald Fulltext today offers an expanding collection of over 50,000 articles (2004) from titles published by Emerald. The articles in Emerald Fulltext are downloaded 5 times more often than the industry average, demonstrating the value of Emerald content to our users.

 

 

ERIC

the Educational Resource Information Center, contains more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

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FSTA

The International Food Information Service (IFIS) produces Food Science and Technology Abstracts (FSTA), which contains over 500,000 references; annual updates add approximately 18,000 references per year. FSTA covers all areas of food science, food technology, and human nutrition, including basic food science, biotechnology, toxicology, packaging, and engineering.

Some 1800 publications in over 40 languages are scanned regularly, including journals, reviews, standards, legislation, patents, books, theses, and conference proceedings. Abstracts with complete bibliographic details are produced from these original sources. Sources of all the materials abstracted are listed together with instructions for full text document delivery. Available search aids include a Thesaurus and lists of journals covered regularly.

 

 

Garden, Landscape & Horticulture Index

is the premier resource for access to articles about plants and gardens. Topics include horticulture, garden and landscape design and history, botany, ecology, plant and garden conservation, garden management, and horticultural therapy. This index and abstract product is designed for gardening enthusiasts, professionals, and students of horticulture and of garden and landscape design and history. Indexed and abstracted are more than 300 core titles, the majority of which are published in English.

 

 

Health & Medical Complete

Designed to serve a wide range of people who need health information -- from hospital administrators to medical professionals to consumers.

The database provides coverage from leading health journals and essential medical journals in key medical specialties.

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Health Source - Consumer Edition

This database is the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition/ features more than 130 full text, consumer health magazines. This database is updated on a daily basis.

 

 

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals. This database is updated on a daily basis.

 

 

 

Hospitality & Tourism Complete

covers scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism. This collection contains more than 500,000 records, with coverage dating as far back as 1965. There is full text for more than 200 publications, including periodicals, company & country reports, and books.

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JSTOR

a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, that provides access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

 

 

MasterFILE Premier

Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 1,730 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes nearly 500 full text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 235,186 photos, maps and flags.

 

 

MEDLINE

provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

 

 

Newspaper Source

provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 260 regional (U.S.) newspapers. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.

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ProQuest Agriculture Journals

Science, Agriculture: Journals and magazines

Search full-text journals in agriculture and related fields

 

 

ProQuest Biology Journals

Science, Biology: Journals and magazines

Search full-text journals in the life sciences.

 

 

ProQuest Computing

Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.

 

 

ProQuest Education Journals

Search the leading full-text journals in education and related fields.

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ProQuest Medical Library

Search a comprehensive database combining MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others.

 

 

ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source

Nursing, Allied Health: Journals, Magazines

Find complete, full-text information from leading nursing and related publications. Designed to meet the needs of researchers at health-care facilities as well as students enrolled in nursing programs at academic institutions.

 

 

ProQuest Psychology Journals

With complete full-text coverage from top psychology and related publications, this database meets the needs of both students and mental-health professionals

 

 

ProQuest Science Journals

Science, Technology: Journals and magazines

Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.

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ProQuest Social Science Journals

Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.

 

 

ProQuest Telecommunications

Science, Technology: Journals and magazines

Search the full text of top telecommunications industry publications. Includes magazines, journals, and newsletters for the latest in this fast changing industry.

 

 

Regional Business News

This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States. This database is updated on a daily basis.

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SA ePublications

This service, which is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text electronic South African journals in the world, focuses on making journals published in South Africa available online.

The interest that the SA ePublications service has generated among South African publishers and editors alike has allowed Sabinet Online to grow the service at a phenomenal rate. The service currently includes 206 publications, with new publications being added on an ongoing basis.

 

 

South African Industrial Relations Directory (SAIRD)

has been designed to work hand-in-hand with the printed Directory and together they form the most comprehensive industrial relations information service ever designed in SA. The site forms a one-stop-shop for the whole of South Africa’s labour market needs and has been created with speed and user friendliness in mind.

Now, every organisation in the nation, large or small, and management, from most senior right down the line, have a site dedicated to giving them the exact labour and industrial relations information they need when they need it.

 

 

 

 

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect® is the essential information resource for millions of scientists around the world.

ScienceDirect is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

A rich journals collection is supplemented by relevant abstract databases to expand literature searches further and a growing program of online reference works.

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Over 1,800 journals from Elsevier including top titles such as The Lancet, Cell and Tetrahedron

Over 6 million articles and over 60 million abstracts from all fields of science 

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SPORTDiscus with Full Text

is the world's most comprehensive source of full text for sports & sports medicine journals, providing full text for more than 415 journals indexed in SPORTDiscus. Of those, nearly 250 have cover-to-cover indexing in SPORTDiscus. With more than 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985, SPORTDiscus with Full Text is the definitive research tool for all areas of sports and sports medicine literature.

 

 

 

SPORTDiscus Select

focuses to provide information for doctors, allied health professionals, educators and researchers in the field of sports medicine, physical education, sport law & legislation, injury prevention & rehabilitation and other related areas. This database contains 169 full text journals with PDF coverage back as far as 1887 including 130 peer-reviewed publications. All journals in this collection are indexed in SPORTDiscus.

 

 

 

SpringerLink

The SpringerLink Online Journal collection includes more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals, comprising more than 600,000 individual documents. Most titles include complete back issues to 1996, with digital conversion of all back issues under way, making every title available from Volume I, Issue I.

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Taxnet

is destined to become the leading local on-line resource for the Tax Specialist. TaxNET contains a wealth of information updated daily, to keep you abreast of the latest legislative developments, up-to-the minute Case Law, the very latest South African Revenue Services Media Statements, Practice Notes, SARS contact details and the Katz Commission Reports

 

 

U.S. National Newspaper Abstracts (3)

Abstracts and indexing for New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal, included with a subscription to Academic Research Library.

 

 

 

Water Resources Worldwide

provides the exceptional value and convenience of three of the world's major water-resource databases plus powerful searching using the WATERLIT thesaurus. South Africa's WATERLIT, Canada's AQUAREF, and the Netherlands' DELFT HYDRO provide more than  561,440 citations and abstracts -- oceans of vital water-research information. Automated thesaurus based searching helps you find any topic with ease.

 

 

 

Web of Science

Over 25,000 articles and 500,000 cited references are fully indexed and added to Web of Science every week. They are indexed completely, consistently and accurately. They present you with the most current information published --— even more current than databases that update on a daily basis.

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