DATABASES
Database
Type
Coverage
Remarks
Gives access to a
collection of 46
electronic medical
textbooks.
AccessMedici
ne
Medical ebooks
full text
full text
AccessScience Science
No password is
required but it can
only be accessed on
the Medunsa
Campus by 2
simultaneous users.
Science and
technology online
encyclopedia.
Username and
password required.
ACS
(American
Chemical
Society)
Chemistry
Biomedcentra Multidiscipli
l
nary
Bmj journals
Medicine
full text
Includes peerreviewed research in
the chemical and
related sciences.
full text
Science, technology
and medicine
publisher which
makes full-text
articles available.
full text
BMJ Journals
includes full-text
articles from 21
British medical
journals.
Business
Source
Complete
Cochrane
Reviews
Current index
to Statistics
full text
Scholarly business
database, providing a
collection of
bibliographic and full
text content.
Medicine,
Nursing
full text
Reliable evidence
from Cochrane and
other systematic
reviews and clinical
trials.
Statistics
Index to publications
in statistics and
related fields.
References are
drawn from 111 core
bibliograph journals that are fully
ic
indexed, non-core
journals from which
articles are selected
that have statistical
content, proceedings
and edited books,
and other sources.
Business
Directory of
Open Access
Journals
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
Free, full text, quality
controlled scientific
and scholarly
journals.
EBSCO A-toZ®
Alphabetical
title list of
electronic
full text
journals
A comprehensive
Web-based tool for
organizing and
providing links to all
library e-resources,
including e-journals.
Agricola
Agriculture
full text
Records from the
bibliograph U.S. Department of
ic
Agriculture’s
National Agricultural
Library.
Academic
Search
Premier
ERIC
(Education
Resources
Information
Centre)
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
Education
bibliograph
ic
abstracts
Greenfile
Environment
full-text
Health
Source:
Consumer
edition
Medical
sciences,
nutrition,
sports
medicine,
childcare
full text
A comprehensive
scholarly, multidisciplinary full-text
database, with more
than 7,100 full-text
journals, including
more than 6,100
peer-reviewed
journals.
Links to many
education resources.
Covers all aspects of
human impact on the
environment. Its
collection of
scholarly,
government and
general-interest
titles includes
content on global
warming, green
building, pollution,
sustainable
agriculture,
renewable energy,
recycling, and more.
Provides information
on many health
topics including the
medical sciences,
food sciences and
nutrition, childcare,
sports medicine and
general health.
Scholarly full text
journals focusing on
many medical
disciplines. Health
Source:
Nursing/Academic
Edition also features
the Lexi-PAL Drug
Guide, which covers
1,300 generic drug
patient education
sheets with more
than 4,700 brand
names.
Health
Source:
Nursing/Acad
emic edition
Nursing
Library,
Information
Science &
Technology
Abstracts
(LISTA)
Indexes more than
500 journals and
books, research
reports and
proceedings. Subject
coverage includes
librarianship,
classification,
bibliograph
cataloging,
Librarianship
ic
bibliometrics, online
information retrieval,
information
management and
more. Coverage in
the database extends
back as far as the
mid-1960s.
full text
Library,
Information
Science &
Librarianship full text
Technology
Abstracts
with Full Text
Indexes more than
500 core journals,
more than 50 priority
journals, and 125
selective journals;
plus books, research
reports and
proceedings. This
database also
contains full text for
more than 240
journals. Subject
coverage includes
librarianship,
classification,
cataloging,
bibliometrics, online
information retrieval,
information
management and
more. Coverage in
the database extends
back as far as the
mid-1960s.
MasterFILE
Premier
Medline with
full-text
Newspaper
Source
Regional
Business
News
General
reference,
plus image
collection
full text
Provides full text for
nearly 1,700 general
reference
publications with full
text information
dating as far back as
1975.
Medicine
Comprehensive
source of full text for
medical journals,
providing full text for
more than 1,450
journals indexed in
MEDLINE.
U.S and
International full text
newspapers
Provides cover-tocover full text for 45
national (U.S.) &
international
newspapers.
full text
Business
Provides
comprehensive full
bibliograph text coverage for
ic
regional business
publications.
Regional Business
News incorporates
coverage of more
than 80 regional
business publications
covering all
metropolitan and
rural areas within the
United States. Click
here for a complete
title list. Click here
for more info.
Teacher
Reference
Center
Education
Provides indexing
and abstracts for 280
of the most popular
teacher and
bibliograph administrator
journals and
ic
magazines to assist
professional
educators.
Management
, Library &
Emeraldinsigh Information
full text
sciences,
t
engineering
& technology
Covers a wide e
range of
management and
library & information
services journals, as
well as a strong
specialist range of
engineering, applied
science and
technology journals.
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,
Multidisciplin
ary
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.
ISI Web of
Science
Institute of
Physics
JSTOR
Humanities,
science,
social
science,
current
contents,
journal
citation
reports
Enables crossdisciplinary research,
provides researchers,
administrators,
bibliograph faculty, and students
with quick, powerful
ic
access to the world's
leading citation
Abstracts
databases.
Links to full Authoritative,
text
multidisciplinary
content covers over
10,000 of the highest
impact journals
worldwide.
full text
Institute of Physics'
website includes fulltext access to many
journals published by
the Institute of
Physics.
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
Not-for-profit service
offering a highquality,
interdisciplinary
digital archive to
support scholarship
Physics
and teaching.
A full text data base
with a reputable
archive, articles in a
wide range of subject
areas: economics,
history, gender
studies,
environment,
governance and
American literature.
JUTASTAT
CD-ROM
SA statutes
and Acts
1. LexisNexis
Intern
Law
ationa
/Business
l
Servic
e
2. My LexisNexis
3. LexisNexis
South
Law
Africa
/Business
n
Servic
e
CD-ROM available
from Postgraduate
electronic
full text
Full text
room, Medunsa
Campus, X4642
A leading global
provider of contentenabled workflow
solutions to
professionals in law
firms, corporations,
government, law
enforcement, tax,
accounting,
academic
institutions, risk and
compliance
assessment.
Legal articles from
South Africa
Legal articles
4. Legal Information
5. Legal
Infor
Law/Business
matio
n
Legal articles
6. Legal Information
System
7. CDROM
also
availa
ble,
Conta Law/Business
ct Law
Librari
an @
Ext.
2321
Mary Ann
Liebert
NEXUS
(National
Research
Foundation)
Medicine
Research
projects in
SA (current
and
completed)
full text
Mary Ann Liebert
offers free full text
electronic access to
authoritative peerreviewed journals in
the areas of
biotechnology,
biomedical research/
life sciences, clinical
medicine and surgery
and law.
abstracts
Includes an index of
current and
completed research
at South African
institutions,
biographical profiles
of individual
researchers in South
African institutions
and their areas of
specialisation,
information about
research
organisations in
South Africa, and a
database on
forthcoming national
and international
conferences in the
social sciences and
humanities.
Odlis
OAIster
OpenDOAR
Online
Dictionary
for Library
and
Information
Science
dictionary
A hypertext
reference resource
for library and
information science
professionals,
university students
and faculty, and
users of all types of
for Libraries.
Multidisciplin
catalogue
ary
A union catalog of
millions of records
representing open
archive digital
resources that was
built by harvesting
from open archive
collections
worldwide using the
Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for
Metadata Harvesting
(OAI-PMH).
Multidisciplin
list
ary
The OpenDOAR
service provides a
quality-assured
listing of open access
repositories around
the world.
OpenDOAR staff
harvest and assign
metadata to allow
categorization and
analysis to assist the
wider use and
exploitation of
repositories.
Ovid
Oxford
Reference
Online
Physical
reviews
(PROLA)
Medicine
full text
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
Physics
full text
Gives access to
nearly 300 full-text
Wolters
Kluver/Lippincott
Williams and Wilkins
(LWW) journal titles.
Scholarly resources
offering acclaimed
titles in the Oxford
Companions series
with authoritative
quick-reference
coverage of the full
subject spectrum. It
also offers excellent
functionality and a
wide range of
additional material
such as maps,
illustrations, and
timelines
Physical Review
Online Archive
(PROLA) is the
American Physical
Society's online
archive for Physical
Review Letters,
Reviews of Modern
Physics, and Physical
Review A–E.
Biology,
nursing,
psychology
Proquest
Includes access to 9
databases including
Proquest Psychology,
Proquest Nursing
and Proquest
Biology. Full-text
access of many
articles is available.
Multidisciplin
ary
Abstracts/
full text
SA ePublications
Medical
full text
Collection of S A
online medical
journals. No
username/ password
required on
Medunsa Campus.
Online SA journals
Username/password
required
SA ePublications
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
Available via Sabinet,
this database
provides full-text
access to journals
published in South
Africa.
Username/password
required
Sabinet Legal
Products
Various legal
databases,
including
full text
Government
Gazettes
The only “all-in-one
series of South
African law reports
and the primary
source of legal
precedent in South
Africa. Included is
the full text of
judgments from
1947 to date,
presented with
identical page breaks
and marginal
lettering as in the
original printed
reports, making
citations standard.
Go to Subscriber
access and login.
Obtain the access
codes from your
Faculty Librarian.
Username/password
required
SA tenders
Tenders
full text
A uniquely tailored
Tender database
which provides
access to tender
information from
various important
sources
Covers South African
research projects in
various disciplines
including Master’s
and Doctoral theses
of SA universities as
well as information
on research projects
Bibliograph from NGOs, the
SA Theses and Multidisciplin ical
private sector and
Dissertations ary
government
abstracts
departments. All
non-English titles of
projects are
translated into
English. Abstracts are
included for
completed projects
from 1988 onwards.
Provides access to
over
1700 Elsevier
scientific, technical &
medical peerreviewed journals.
ScienceDirect
Multidisciplin abstracts/
ary
full text
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.
Scirus
Skillvantage
Springer Link
Multidisciplin abstracts/
ary
full text
e-learning
e-learning
software
Multidisciplin
full text
ary
A comprehensive
science-specific
search engine on the
Internet and
searches over 370
million web pages.
Skillvantage is a Pty.
Ltd. company
created to plug the
learning gaps,
whether in
corporate,
educational
institutions or
Government organiz
ations
Electronic data
source from Springer
for researchers in
biomedicine, life
science, clinical
medicine, physics,
engineering,
mathematics,
computer science,
humanities, and
economics…
Swetswise
Useful South African Links
Toc,
Multidisciplin
abstracts,
ary
full text
Access to online fulltext articles from
selected journals
which the Medunsa
Campus library
subscribes to.
Useful International Links
South African Legal Periodical Index
World Legal Information Institute
Index to South African Periodicals
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
Law Journals on SA E-publications
Australasian Legal Information Institute
South African Law Commission
International Court of Justice
Human Rights Commission
Constitutional Court
Independent Electoral Commission
Parliament
Southern African Database of Case Law