This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 8,500 journals, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed titles. Provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
AccessMedicineTM from McGraw-Hill provides access to more than 60 medical titles, updated content, thousands of images and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform, and the ability to download content to a mobile device. Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
AccessPhysiotherapy™ from McGraw-Hill is a resource for physical therapy students and lecturers. It provides access to content from leading McGraw-Hill texts, interactive imaging content, exclusive multimedia, and flexible curricular tools.
Africa-Wide Information combines databases (African Studies, South African Studies, and African Healthline) to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This resource is essential for those with an interest in African research, and information on and about Africa.
An international index to African health literature and information sources produced by WHO and the Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA)
This respected journal ensures fast access to the most relevant and up-to-date developments in sports medicine and exercise science. The wide range of topics covered in the International Journal of Sports Medicine (IJSM) include:
training & testing
orthopedic & clinical sciences
nutrition & behavioral sciences
physiology & biochemistry
biomechanics & immunology
This free portal to Medline includes in-process citations and citations from life-sciences journals published in PubMed Central, but not yet indexed by Medline.
Medline is a comprehensive source of life sciences and biomedical bibliographic information, with nearly eleven million records. It is accessed via the EBSCOhost platform.
PsycTESTS® is an authoritative source of structured information about tests of relevance to psychologists and professionals in related fields such as psychiatry, management, business, education, social science, neuroscience, law, medicine, and social work. While focused on contemporary instances of test use, coverage spans more than a century.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
SAGE Research Methods (SRM) is an award-winning tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. SRM's taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content.
SRM's taxonomy of over 1,400 methods terms links to authoritative content, including:
* Over 600 books
* Dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks
* The entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series
* Two major works collating a selection of journal articles
* Newly commissioned videos
"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process."
Point of care evidence-based database giving comprehensive evidence-based clinical information resources. Where there is no evidence it makes recommendations based on expert opinion.
For off campus access to UpToDate Anywhere, register for your own personal account with UpToDate on campus and you will have access from any computer with an internet connection. You can download the UpToDate Mobile App onto your cell phone or tablet, and login using your personal account details. Once every 90 days, you will be prompted to re-verify your affiliation with your subscribing institution to maintain UpToDate Anywhere access
The Web of Science is a large, broad-based abstracting database with direct links to journal articles.
The Web of Knowledge database includes the Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Zoological Records and the Journal Citation Index. Searching can be across all databases or selected databases.
Read & Publish agreements are a form of transformative agreement with a publisher that takes the library’s existing expenditure on subscriptions and repurposes it to cover both reading and publishing in that publisher’s journals. If you publish in a journal that’s included in one of the Read & Publish agreements, you may be able to publish direct to open access with no transactional article processing charges.
Author publishing workflow. You don’t need to change your publishing practices. Submit where you would normally submit your research and you’ll be notified on acceptance if you are eligible to publish your article open access with no transactional APCs (Article Processing Charges).
The UCT Libraries is participating in various Read & Publish agreements, which enable University of Cape Town (UCT) authors to publish accepted articles into eligible journals without any APCs. The current agreements are:
American Chemical Society
Association for Computing Machinery
Cambridge University Press
Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection
Emerald
Institute of Physics
Oxford University Press
Sage
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society
Wiley
AccessScience gives full access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology. It is updated daily. It also includes biographies of leading scientists, weekly updates of breakthroughs and discoveries in science, a science dictionary, and links to related websites. Access is limited to 2 simultaneous users.
The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Online access to the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from up to 70 journals in agricultural sciences, science and technology, health and social sciences, published in Africa.
AllAfrica.com is among the Internet's largest content sites posting over 800 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in a searchable archive (which includes the archive of Africa News Service dating from 1997). Strategic alliances with media and information technology companies, such as Comtex News Network, Radio France Internationale, and the BBC, extend AllAfrica's global reach.
The Anthropological Index Online (AIO) is published by the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) in cooperation with Anthropology Library and Research Centre at the British Museum. It is an index to articles in journals taken by the Library and to films held at the Royal Anthropological Institute. The Library, which incorporates the former RAI library, holds some 4,000 periodical titles (1,500 current) covering all branches and areas of anthropology. Nearly 800 journals, published in more than 40 languages, are indexed on a continuing basis. Records cover 1957 to the present.
Biological & Agricultural Index Plus™ provides full text of articles from over 100 journals dating back to 1997, as well as indexing and abstracts of more than 380 publications. Subject coverage includes agriculture & agricultural research, atmospheric science, biochemistry, biology, biotechnology, botany, chemistry, environmental science, geology, marine biology microbiology, physics and much more.
BioMed Central is an open access publishing portal, which offers access to a wide range of journals within the fields of science, technology and medicine.
Provides access to comprehensive information on current English language books from the UK, the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Details of other published media (CD-ROM, audio cassette, video) are also included.
The Cleveland Clinic Disease Management Project is an online medical guide where all the material can be accessed for free. Cleveland Clinic physician authors provide recommendations for treating more than 150 commonly seen diseases in the following areas: Allergy and Immunology, Cardiology, Dermatology, Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Hematology/Oncology, Infectious Disease, Nephrology, Neurology, Psychology and Psychiatry, Pulmonary Disease, Rheumatology, and Women's Health. Launched in 2002, this online textbook includes 40 chapters covering the above mentioned medical specialties and more than 50 additional chapters are already under construction.
The directory contains information about open access journals, i.e. quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified.
Click on DoPP Login to identify material from more than 40,000 conferences, meetings & symposia. Subjects covered: Science/Technology; Medical/Life Sciences; Pollution Control/Ecology; Social Sciencs/Humanities.
With more than 2 million entries, this is the single, central, authoritative resource for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350- word abstracts written by the author. Master's theses published from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. UMI offers over 1.8 million titles for purchase in microform, paper or electronic formats.
DynaMed is a clinician-focused tool designed to facilitate efficient and evidence-based patient care. Rigorous and daily review of medical literature by our physician and specialist staff ensures that timely and objective analysis, synthesis and guidance are at our users' fingertips.DynaMed publishes clinically-organized topics which are continuously updated as new information indicates a need for change in practice. DynaMed content ranges from comprehensive reviews of diseases, conditions, and abnormal findings to highly focused topics on evaluation, differential diagnosis, and management. Drug and laboratory monographs developed and maintained by IBM Micromedex are also included.
-Clinicians’ Practice Points provide guidance and opinion from our expert physician editors on what is perceived to be good clinical practice in the absence of robust evidence from clinical research studies.
-An evidence synopsis answers a question as rapidly as possible through a brief structured summary of a body of evidence, providing the clinical “take-away”.
-DynaMed Commentaries provide information about the methodology or other significant technical aspects of the clinical studies that are critically appraised in the evidence summaries.
-DynaMed interactive calculators provide a fast and efficient way to input patient data and calculate a variety of relevant scores and indices.
Digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
The Encyclopedia of Cell Biology provides 285 articles written by domain experts, fully cross-referenced, one-stop resource for students, researchers, and teaching faculty across the biological and medical sciences. Contents cover every aspect of cell biology with fully annotated figures, abundant illustrations, videos, and references for further reading.
Faculty of 1000 is the next generation literature awareness tool. It is a revolutionary new online research service that will comprehensively and systematically highlight and review the most interesting papers published in the biological sciences, based on the recommendations of a faculty of well over 1000 selected leading researchers.
Produced by the World Health Organization, it provides data on populations worldwide with special emphasis on the global health situation. Incorporates WHO Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)
Provides access to the full text of the South African Government Gazette and Weekly Government Gazette Index. The database includes acts, bills, draft bills, green papers,white papers, and regulations published in the Government Gazette. Also included are general notices, government notices, press releases, board notices, legal notices and proclamations.
This is a collection of specially prepared animated audio visual presentations with synchronized narration by world leading scientists.
Henry Stewart Talks is committed to providing access to world class seminars by leading thinkers and authorities from around the globe, in one online resource - wherever, whenever and as often as it is wanted.
As well as being an excellent way to stay up to date on the latest developments in a field, the talks are a great way to quickly immerse oneself in a new area. The collections are constantly being expanded and updated and already over a thousand leading world experts have recorded presentations especially for Henry Stewart Talks. Each of the talks is painstakingly edited and animated to bring you an audio visual briefing of exceptionally high standard.
Indexed articles from more than 600 South African periodicals. Go to the database link and also tick "SA ePublications", which will bring additional hits with full-text links.
Provides access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers. UCT only has access to selected titles for which we have subscriptions.
JoVE, the leading creator and provider of video-based solutions that increase the productivity and efficacy of STEM research and education. Creates the ultimate solutions for advancing research and science education by making and publishing videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. Allowing scientists, educators and students to see the intricate details of cutting-edge experiments rather than read them in text articles.
Provides access to information on a broad range of topics including general interest, business, health and multi-cultural.
MasterFILE Premier features: searchable full text for nearly 1,850 journals, abstracts and indexing for over 2,810 journals; charts, tables and graphs converted to ASCII text; searchable full text for nearly 5,000 Magill's Book Reviews; Essential Documents in American History-a database of over 1,000 original historical documents including The Bill of Rights, The Constitution, The Federalist Papers and the speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; over 1.4 million company records from Dun & Bradstreet; and nearly 1,400 journals with images
Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals integrated medical information, educational tools, journals and books, amongst others.
For over 120 years The Merck Index has been regarded as the most authoritative and reliable source of information on chemicals, drugs and biologicals. Now this trusted resource is available online from RSC Publishing. The Merck Index* Online offers the same highly authoritative information as the print edition in a convenient and easily searchable full text database. It contains over 11,500 monographs – including historic records not available in the print edition. The Merck Index* Online will be updated regularly with accurate information curated by experts.
"NeuroBITE (previously PsycBITE) is a database that catalogues studies of cognitive, behavioural and other treatments for psychological problems and issues occurring as a consequence of acquired brain impairment (ABI). These studies are rated for their methodological quality, evaluating various aspects of scientific rigour. The website gives clinicians, students and researchers free access to the NeuroBITE database ..."
OECD’s Online Library containing all books and papers published since 1998 as well as a vast collection of statistics with data going back to the early 1960s. UCT access does not include the IEA statistics.
UCT Libraries has provided a hosting service in open access journal publishing access since 2015. UCT Libraries are advocates for open access publishing, providing resources for researchers to make their work freely accessible in various ways.
Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization. Select a subject of interest by clicking "Browse Subjects".
Formerly known as PAIS International, this database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Subject coverage includes mainly social and health-related issues such as: Affirmative action; AIDS; Child Labor; Child Sexual Exploitation; Climate Change; Disaster Relief; Ethnic Cleansing; Female Circumcision, etc.
"Research Professional Africa is a platform that allows access to the latest global coverage of Research Funding Programmes as well as Science and Technology news and Innovation policies."
The SA Cat is the joint catalogue of all major libraries in Southern Africa. The database gives details of books, journals and audiovisual material held in each library.
This service is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform which focuses on information originating from or pertaining to Africa. Previously SA ePublications
Compilation of books, pamphlets, government publications, microforms, maps, technical reports, and periodicals published in South Africa. Updated monthly.
Free database of Best Interventions and Treatment Efficacy in Speech Pathology practice. It includes systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other clinical studies.
"Trip is a clinical search engine designed to allow users to quickly and easily find and use high-quality research evidence to support their practice and/or care."
UCT Libraries has been publishing monographs (books) via open access since 2015. Monographs are important for research communication and must continue to be available open access. UCT Libraries are advocates for open access publishing, providing resources for researchers to make their work freely accessible in various ways.
Wiley Online Library hosts the world's broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, 9000 books, and hundreds of reference works, laboratory protocols and databases.
CAS SciFinderⁿ is the latest scientific information solution from CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. In addition to the reference, substance, reaction and supplier content found in CAS SciFinder®, CAS SciFindern includes relevance-ranked results, step-by-step procedures and protocols, citation mapping, biosequence searching, retrosynthetic analysis, patent landscape mapping, touch-screen enabled structure drawing and much more—all accessible in a simple, easy-to-use interface.
Users can access using their existing SciFinder credentials.
New To SciFinderⁿ? Gain access to SciFinderⁿ, register as a new user. If you are off campus gain access in 3 steps:
1. Install and run AnyConnect to connect to the UCT network.
2. Register as a new user .
3. Once you verify your email, you'll be ready to access SciFinder-n.
Note that if an account is idle for 18 months or more, access will be deactivated. To restore access, please contact help@cas.org.
.Gale Primary Sources is an integrated platform that combines Gale’s digital archives into a single cross-searchable interface. This broadens and enhances the ability to discover primary source documents from multiple collections. This platform combines dozens of historical archives which include monographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, and photographs and covers more than 500 hundred of years of history.
PressReader provides online access for the last 12 months to over 700 newspapers from more than 55 countries (incl. South Africa). Register or sign in with your UCT email address to personalise your reading experience:
Customize your home feed to feature your favourite publications
Follow people, groups and publishers that interest you
Curate for your interests using My Topics
Share articles with others
Set up email alerts to receive notifications when new articles are published on a topic of interest.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
PubMed is a service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 19 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to 1948. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
"Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. It's designed to find the information scientists need. Quick, easy and comprehensive, Scopus provides superior support of the literature research process."
Read & Publish agreements are a form of transformative agreement with a publisher that takes the library’s existing expenditure on subscriptions and repurposes it to cover both reading and publishing in that publisher’s journals. If you publish in a journal that’s included in one of the Read & Publish agreements, you may be able to publish direct to open access with no transactional article processing charges.
Author publishing workflow. You don’t need to change your publishing practices. Submit where you would normally submit your research and you’ll be notified on acceptance if you are eligible to publish your article open access with no transactional APCs (Article Processing Charges).
The UCT Libraries is participating in various Read & Publish agreements, which enable University of Cape Town (UCT) authors to publish accepted articles into eligible journals without any APCs. The current agreements are:
American Chemical Society
Association for Computing Machinery
Cambridge University Press
Elsevier ScienceDirect Freedom Collection
Emerald
Institute of Physics
Oxford University Press
Sage
Springer Nature
Taylor & Francis
The Royal Society
Wiley
The Web of Science is a large, broad-based abstracting database with direct links to journal articles.
The Web of Knowledge database includes the Web of Science, Biological Abstracts, Zoological Records and the Journal Citation Index. Searching can be across all databases or selected databases.
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