Sociology: Databases/e-resources/articles/journals

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Multi-disciplinary journals

A retrospective digitisation project focusing on exclusively African Journals comprising of an online collection of full text articles in the Sciences, Social Sciences and African affairs.

African-published research

International, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa

100 years of anthropological material online to scholars and the public, including: current issues for 15 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications

Reviews:academic books & e-media.ONE CONCURRENT USER. Access on campus.

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Areas related to communication and mass media. Indexing and abstracts for more than 450 journals, and selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Includes full text for over 300 journals.

SA current &completed research projects including theses & dissertations.

Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,800 documentary films and over 100,000 pages of full-text material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.

Multidisciplinary content.

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Business, Management and Economics, Education, Information Systems, Language and Linguistics, Library and Information Studies, Social Sciences, Transport,

Online version of Europa world year book and Regional survey of Africa South of the Sahara

Multidisciplinary content. The academic content of Google. Use in conjuction with Scopus and ISI Web of Science

All aspects of human impact to the environment. Select from the list of databases

Consumer edition: consumer health information. Academic edition: over 500 medical journals.
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Largest archive of free full-text science on Earth!

Multidisciplinary content. Archived to first issues. Current issues embargoed.

Multidisciplinary: general reference publications, reference books, maps, biographies, images & more. Select from the list of databases

International organization dedicated to promoting adoption, creation, use, dissemination & preservation of electronic theses & dissertations

Full text for more than 40 US & international papers.Selective text: regional US newspapers. TV & radio news transcripts. Select from the list of databases

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.

covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean.

Range of fully-indexed, extensively linked, up to date &cross-searchable dictionary, language reference & subject reference works published by OUP, Detailed information across a broad subject range from titles in the Oxford Companions series

Full-text access to academic OUP monographs from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences & science.

Index of papers at conferences worldwide. Published congress, symposium, conference, exposition & meeting papers

POPLINE® contains the world’s most comprehensive collection of population, family planning and related reproductive health and development literature. An international resource, POPLINE helps program managers, policy makers, and service providers in low- and middle-income countries and in development-supportive agencies and organizations gain access to scientific articles, reports, books, and unpublished documents.

Provides access to over 150 000 authoritative ebooks.

Searchable collection of full-text South African journals

Newsclippings: Covers over 120 SA newspapers. More than 500 articles are selected daily.

SA information: journal articles, news clipping, government publications, SA theses information

Leading full-text database offering journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals

Highly recommended: Multidisciplinary journal articles

Comprehensive sociology research database. Journals, book and conferences.
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Use in conjuction with Current & Completed Research. Bibliographic records of SA university Masters & Ph.D theses

Web of Science is a citation index for scientific and scholarly research. It is a curated collection of over 21,000 peer-reviewed, high-quality scholarly journals published worldwide (including Open Access journals) in over 250 science, social sciences, and humanities disciplines. Conference proceedings and book data are also available.

19th & 20th cent. African papers: Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda &Zimbabwe.

A union catalog which itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries.

International dissertations & theses. Includes links to full-text where available