Informatics and Knowledge Management Directorate
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e-Resources
Databases
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MRC has access to:
- Full content
- Trial subscription
- Abstracts only
- Abstracts of all articles, full text of research
- Researchers can publish an unlimited number of research articles in journals published by BioMed Central without paying any processing charges.
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Science Direct is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. |
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EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full text databases and popular databases from leading information providers.
The comprehensive databases range from general reference collections to specially designed, subject-specific databases for public, academic, medical, corporate and school libraries.
- Academic Search Premier
- Business Source Premier
- Regional Business News
- MEDLINE
- ERIC
- MasterFILE Premier
- Health Source - Consumer Edition
- Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- Clinical Pharmacology
- Newspaper Source
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EBSCO HOST(EJS) is a single site for accessing those e-journals to which ISD subscribe through EBSCO. |
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DialogWeb is a powerful search tool that provides access to thousands of authoritative business, scientific, intellectual property, and technical publications. To access contact the Information Officers. |
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National Information Services Corporation (NISC USA) publishes information products for access through BiblioLine, Web search service. Some of their abstract and index services are available in print. NISC's bibliographic and full-text databases cover a wide range of topics in the natural and social sciences, arts and humanities. Some titles provide comprehensive coverage of particular geographic regions, such as Latin America, Africa, South-East Asia or the Arctic & Antarctic. |
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Biblioline is a web search service provided by NISC which gives access to the following databases:
- African HealthLine
- AIDSearch (MEDLINE AIDS/HIV Subset, AIDSTRIALS & AIDSDRUGS)
- Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Database
- South African Studies
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Magnet is a Sabinet Online's Reference Information Services. Magnet Information Retrieval system, is sorted into various subject groups such as Legal, News, Engineering, General and Finding Books and Articles. Magnet provides access to high-quality information items from number of local and international databases.
Magnet provides access to books, journals, conference information, government publications and many more.
The SACat, the only comprehensive listing of books and periodicals held in South African libraries, is integrated with some of the Magnet databases. |
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Journal Citation Report (JCR)
Is a comprehensive and unique resource tool that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,000 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries.
JCR can show you the: Most frequently cited journals in a field; highest impact journals in a field; hottest journals in a field; leading journals in a field and most published articles in a field. |
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Health & Medical Complete - Health, Medicine: Journals, Magazines
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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Sabinet offers products to users in business and industry as well as to libraries in various sectors and industries: Access to verified information available from South African and overseas databases, allowing unlimited access after subscription. Databases subscribed are:
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Free-online Databases and Journals (Full text & Abstracts)
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This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. There are now 1582 journals in the directory. Currently 398 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 73562 articles are included in the DOAJ service. |
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The Free Medical Journals Site is dedicated to the promotion of free access to medical journals over the Internet. The site hold about 1380 Journals. |
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HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of free full-text life science articles in the world, with more than 750,000 free, full-text articles |
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PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. |
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POPLINE® (POPulation information onLINE), the world's largest database on reproductive health, provides more than 300,000 citations with abstracts to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished reports in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues. |
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PubMed Central (PMC) is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature. |
Free Online Books
Trial On-line databases
The ISD arrange access to databases which are potential new additions to our resources. Your feedback will be used in making decision about purchasing the databases. (NB: Now and again these are reflected on the intranet page when they are available).
E-Newspapers - Links to selected newspapers - see WizCat
- Business Day
- IOL
- Mail & Guardian
- Sunday Times
E-Journals
Links to a selection of full-text electronic journals or journal content pages.
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