Entrepreneurship Library Guide: Journals

What is a journal?

A journal is like an academic magazine where scholars have written articles about their research.

What is the difference between a book and a journal article?

A book is a longer, and a usually more comprehensive text on a subject.

Journal articles are shorter, and more specific. They are published more frequently and so have more up-to-date information than books do.

Why use journals?

• They are usually more up to date than books.
• As most of them have been checked by other academics (i.e. peer reviewed), they are more reliable than general web articles and newspaper articles.
• They are shorter to read than books.

Databases consist of different journals and allows you to search there different journals in one go. 

Databases can be accessed either by following this link http://libguides.lib.uct.ac.za/az.php to  A-Z list of  databases . The following databases are good sources for information on Entrepreneurship. You can also search a large range of these databases together using Primo.

• Academic OneFile
• Academic Search Premier
• Africa-Wide NiPAD   (Good source within the South African context) 
• Business Source Premier
• Emerald
• lexisnexisacademic
• OECD iLibrary
• SA ePublications  (Good source within the South African context) 
• Science Direct 

 

To search for journals in print use Primo (Library searching Tool) to get location of the journal. Print journals in the main library are located in Immelman level 3 (dungeon) behind closed doors. 

You can search for journals in Primo to find if we subscribe to a particular journal title. 

Useful Entrepreneurship management journals include:

If a journal article is not available through UCT libraries. A copy can be requested via InterLibrary Loans from another library.