Provides extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.

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.

ACM Digital Library covers all areas of computing and includes journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings.

"To expand free, online access to journals published in Africa, the African e-Journals Project has digitized full text of articles of eleven social science and humanities journals and made them available on this web site."

The African Journal Archive is a retrospective digitisation project of full-text journal articles published in Africa, in the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.

This database includes the renowned AGRICOLA, TOXLINE, ESPM (Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management) and Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) databases and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. This database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources covering such topics as the effects of pollution on people and animals and environmental action and policy responses.

AnthroSource, developed by the American Anthropological Association (AAA), serves the research, teaching, and professional needs of anthropologists. It includes a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003 and current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.

Art & Architecture Complete™ is the definitive research database for the study of art and architecture. It is accessed via the EBSCOhost platform.

ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials combines the premier index to journal articles, book reviews, and collections of essays in all fields of religion with ATLA's online collection of major religion and theology journals. The ATLA Religion Database includes more than 575,000 article citations from more than 1,679 journals (506 currently indexed), more than 239,000 essay citations from over 16,800 multi-author works, and more than 530,000 book review citations. Full text is provided for more than 294,000 electronic articles and book reviews. This database is produced by the American Theological Library Association.

Business Source Premier is the industry’s most used business research database, providing full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications.

Database consisting of online books and journals as well as the evidence-based point of care feature, FirstConsult (FC).

Communication & Mass Media Complete provides the most robust, quality research solution in areas related to communication and mass media. CMMC incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline.

A good place to start a literature search for technical or engineering information, CASC covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and the applied sciences, including chemical engineering. It provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,900 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 840 periodicals.

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.

The Digital Library provides searchable full-text access to the various journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society.

Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database covers almost 400 leading journals in the field.

Major areas of coverage include: Air Transportation; Defense Programs; Energy; Hazardous Substances; Land Use; Parks, Refuges, and Forests; Research and Development; Roads and Railroads; Urban and Social Programs; Water.

Engineering Village has the search, analytics, and navigation tools that engineers need to efficiently generate research, assess the impact and relevancy of critical information, and discover new insights for addressing the world’s toughest engineering challenges. An interdisciplinary engineering and applied science database. Coverage includes applied physics and astronomy.

The largest of its kind, Global Plants is a community-contributed database where worldwide herbaria can share their plant type specimens, experts can determine and update naming structures, students can discover and learn about plants in context, and a record of plant life can be preserved for future generations.

Humanities International Complete is an essential collection for comprehensive coverage of the humanities with full text content.

IEEE Xplore delivers full access content to more than four-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly-cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science, and electronics. A comprehensive online collection including journals and conferences.

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.

International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance with Full Text, contains all of the content available in International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance as well as full text for 100 titles.

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

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.

JSTOR provides access to a number of older journal articles.

KluwerArbitration.com is the world's leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains a wealth of commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Plus access to exclusive materials including ICC cases and awards.

For a full overview of the wide range of print publications included in the online database, please consult the books and journals pages.

Select YOUR JOURNALS AT OVID, or UCT Journals@Ovid.

Literature Online is a fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 175 full-text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature. Over 100,000 new items are added each year, most of them classified according to the Mathematics Subject Classification. This database offers abstracts, full text reviews and direct links to journal articles.

Music Periodicals Database (formerly IIMP Full Text) is a music journal resource with more than half a million indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1874 to current, covering the scholarly to the popular.

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.

Formerly known as IIPA Full Text, this is a performing arts journal resource with nearly 350,000 indexed articles, plus detailed abstracts and full text from 1864 to current, covering film, theatre and dance.

The Premium Collection is MUSE's foremost collection of high quality, peer reviewed, interdisciplinary journals from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers and prestigious scholarly societies. All journals available on the MUSE platform are included in a subscription to the Premium Collection.

Includes access to journals and some books published by the American Psychiatric Association.

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

Welcome to the ultimate resource platform to navigate the African information landscape with confidence.
Sabinet is a respected leader at the intersection of information and technology, integrating content, technology and service to provide easy, round-the-clock access to credible online information from and about Africa.

Sabinet Discover is the ultimate information services tool providing seamless access to comprehensive African legal, news and research content. The platform allows subscribers and non-subscribers to discover and effortlessly access the richness of Sabinet’s information services.

Sabinet’s Legal Information Services include all South African Legislation on National, Provincial and Municipal level as well as all Gazettes from 1910 to current. Also included are Sabinet Labour and Sabinet Judgments.

Sabinet’s News Services includes SA Media, a news clipping research service as well as the South African Press Association’s Archive with content dating back as far as 1977 – 2015 and all African News Agency’s newswires from 2015 to September 2022.

Sabinet African Journals encompasses the breadth and depth of African research content by offering the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform. Journals can be found on Sabinet Discover, but the content is hosted on www.journals.co.za where users can easily access articles.

Sabinet’ Specialised Reference Databases service is easily accessible directly via your intranet by means of IP authentication. The Specialised Reference Databases collection comprises of SA Citations, SACat Plus and the African Digital Repository.

A full-text collection with trade and scholarly publications relating to South African and African law. It includes publications relating to fields of criminal law, estate planning, human rights law, tax and company law, and more.

SAGEOLIT contains information on geoscience publications, selected from journal articles, publications of symposia, and published and unpublished reports and maps held by the Information Centre of the Council for Geoscience (CGS). Emphasis is placed on Africa, especially southern Africa, although records cover all aspects of geoscience worldwide. The map library of the Council for Geoscience is particularly useful, as it contains records of maps contained in publications and journals

Scientific Electronic Library Online

An open access database of some academic South African journals.

Access to journals and ebooks published by Elsevier Science.

SocINDEX with Full Text, is the world's most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database

SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer.

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

Westlaw UK Edge is a legal database containing the most comprehensive case-finding database for England and Wales, all primary and seconday legislation for the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, a Legal Journals Index with coverage of most UK legal journals.

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.