The archive presents more than 100,000 pages of newly digitized, historically significant, groundbreaking publications from Ng’weno’s media company. Much of the material has not been available outside of Africa and will be invaluable for researchers and students in journalism, history, political science, Africana studies, education, and media studies.
Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstor’s collections also include Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all.
CineFiles contains scanned images of reviews, press kits, festival and showcase program notes, newspaper articles, and other documents from the Pacific Film Archive (PFA) Library's extensive collection covering world cinema, past and present. Citations are available for all documents, and page images are available for documents with copyright clearance. New titles and document images are added daily.
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.
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rare, out-of-print, maps, books, journals, newspapers, printed music
Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BnF), open to the general public around the world since 1997. It serves as a digital encyclopedia and consists of: printed materials (books, journals, newspapers, printed music, and other documents), graphic materials (engravings, maps, photographs, and others), and sound recordings. Gallica makes it possible to find sources that are rare, unusual, out-of-print, or difficult, if not impossible, to access. These materials are royalty-free and available free of charge when used strictly for private purposes.
Welcome to the Index of Medieval Art online database. Our online holdings complement and partly overlap with the print Index at Princeton University, which is currently being integrated into the database. The collections include images and descriptive data related to the iconography of works of art produced between late Antiquity and the sixteenth century. Although the Index of Medieval Art was formerly known as the Index of Christian Art, it now includes secular subjects as well as a growing number of subjects from medieval Jewish and Islamic culture.
Living Archive is a cumulative and ongoing digital platform through which the work of the Royal Court Theatre can be accessed, explored, and interrogated by contemporary artists and audiences.
High-quality scans of renderings and sketches produced by the Motley Group (Margaret Harris, her sister Sophia Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery) from 1932 to 1976. Search the entire collection, or browse by specific play or theatre.
The Public Art Archive™ (PAA) is a free, continually growing, online and mobile database of completed public artworks throughout the U.S. and abroad. By uniting records from public art organizations and artists into one comprehensive resource, PAA aims to provide universal access to the complex stories that characterize public artworks not as static objects, but as dynamic, interconnected keepers of history, context and meaning. PAA’s mission “to make public art more public” has guided the program’s growth into one of the largest active databases of public art.
TIMEA is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Starting a search
eReference Books are a good place to begin your search and to thoroughly understand the topic you are researching.
Dictionaries provide definitions of unfamiliar terms. Encyclopedias give explanations and succinct overviews of topics.
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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