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Less academic in character than the other engineering databases available at UCT, this database provides access to information in trade journals, news media, and weekly magazines, but there is also some coverage of scholarly journals. 
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.
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.
ACM Digital Library covers all areas of computing and includes journals, newsletters, and conference proceedings.
The Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database includes the renowned Aerospace Database and provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications. For those researchers who need to conduct comprehensive literature reviews, this database includes specialized, editorially-curated A&I resources for discovery of relevant scholarly research and technical literature critical to the discipline.
Provides bibliographic coverage of basic and applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, and space sciences. The database also covers technology development and applications in complementary and supporting fields such as chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, and electronics.
Applied research in aeronautics, astronautics, space sciences, chemistry, geosciences, physics, communications, electronics and military - journal articles
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.
The AMLA platform is a free online one-stop resource for African mining legislation that provides the public with all 53 existing mining codes of the continent in an easily readable and searchable format.
More than 40 nineteenth- and twentieth-century African newspapers. Featuring titles from Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
Aluminium Industry Abstracts (AIA), formerly World Aluminum Abstracts (WAA), provides comprehensive coverage of the world's technical literature on aluminum, production processes, products, applications, and business developments.
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.
Articles from 93 international and South African journals as indexed by the Department of Architecture at the University of Pretoria over the years to enable users to access information on architects, buildings, building materials and methods, design theory, urban design, and much more.
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of approximately 12,600 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Provides holdings information for South African libraries for most items.
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.
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.
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.
Burrell’s Intellectual Property Law Library contains South Africa’s only electronic series of law reports on intellectual property law. This powerful resource includes patent law reports, cases relating to trademarks, designs, copyright and plant breeders’ rights, as well as common law cases in intellectual property law.
Covering over 3,000 periodicals, conference proceedings, technical reports, trade journals, newsletter items, patents, books, and press releases, this database from the American Society of Civil Engineers, indexes civil engineering materials, including surveying, satellite communications, topography, and cartography from about 1966 onwards.
Comprises Civil Practice of the Magistrates' Courts and Superior Court Practice. Contains the full text of the loose-leaf publication: Civil Practice of the Magistrates' Courts in SA by Jones & Buckle and the full text of the loose-leaf publication: Superior Court Practice by Erasmus.
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 Copper Technical Reference Library provides an online bibliographic database of the world's literature on copper, copper alloys and copper technology since 1965. The Copper Technical Reference Library covers copper technology from smelting and hydrometallurgy through the performance of copper and copper alloys in their end-use applications and service environments.
Earthquake Engineering Abstracts provides comprehensive, authoritative coverage of earthquake engineering and earthquake hazard mitigation.
Access to selected e-books.
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The Digital Library provides searchable full-text access to the various journals, books, and other collections published by The Electrochemical Society.
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.
Solid Earth Geophysics aspires to define and quantify the internal structure and processes of the Earth in terms of the principles of physics and forms the intrinsic framework, which other allied disciplines utilize for more specific investigations. This new volume represents a thoroughly revised and expanded reference work. It brings together more than 200 articles covering established and new concepts of Geophysics across the various sub-disciplines such as Gravity, Geodesy, Geomagnetism, Seismology, Seismics, Deep Earth Processes, Plate Tectonics, Thermal Domains, Computational Methods, etc. in a systematic and consistent format and standard.
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.
This database covers technological and engineering aspects of air and water quality, environmental safety, and energy production.
GreenFILE provides information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
From the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, this database covers technical research, development, and operating practices for metalliferous and industrial minerals in the fields of economic geology, mining technology, mineral processing, extractive metallurgy, and non-metals extraction from 1979 to the present.
IIED is one of the world’s most influential international development and environment policy research organisations. Most publications are free to download and we offer printed publications at no cost to individuals and organisations in non-OECD countries.
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JSTOR provides access to a number of older journal articles.
Written by prominent scholars from industry, academia, and research institutions, this encyclopedia presents a wide scope of articles on chemical substances—including their properties, manufacturing, and uses. It also focuses on industrial processes and unit operations in chemical engineering, as well as covering fundamentals and scientific subjects related to the field. Environmental and health issues concerning chemical technology are also addressed.
This resource consist of several databases: Aluminium Industry Abstracts, Ceramic Abstracts/World Ceramics Abstracts, Copper Data Center Database, Corrosion Abstracts, Engineered Materials Abstracts, Materials Business File, METADEX, and WELDASEARCH
METADEX is a comprehensive source for information on metals and alloys: their properties, manufacturing, applications, and development from 1966 to the present. Topics covered include: steel, microstructure, strength, refining, casting, coatings, heat treatment, metal matrix composites, nonferrous metals, corrosion, extracting and smelting, blast furnaces, machining, welding, testing and analysis, and environmental and safety issues.
The Oxford English Dictionary is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
PlanUP was developed for the indexing of the extended archive of the Department of Architecture (University of Pretoria). Donations of the work of some of South Africa’s major architects were accumulated over the years, including original hand-drawn plans, elevations, sections, and diaries. The database includes diverse, research reports, articles, frameworks, sketches and photographs.
The most comprehensive collection of physical, mechanical and chemical data for the platinum group metals (platinum, palladium, rhodium, iridium, osmium and ruthenium) and their alloys, the PGM Database contains information on more than 400 alloys and is illustrated with over 1000 diagrams and graphs with over 9000 referenced numerical data points. The data include about 60 phase diagrams of platinum group metals alloy systems and more than 600 separate pages of related data
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
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.
The Standards Division of the SABS has changed its name and is now developing and publishing standards under the banner of Standards South Africa. All of national standards have been redesignated as SANS (South African National Standards), as opposed to SABS standards.
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"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."
SpringerLink is an integrated full-text database for journals, books, protocols, eReferences, and book series published by Springer.
Major areas of coverage include: Human Population Dynamics; Population - Environment Relations; Population Statistics and Policy; Ecotourism; Sustainable Living and Consumption; Environmental Awareness and Education; Environmental Law, Conventions, & Policy; Sustainable Resource Base: Atmosphere; Land; Water and Biodiversity; Economic Drivers; Sustainable Development and Production; Sustainable Energy; Sustainable Transportation/Mobility.
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The Web of Science is a large, broad-based abstracting database with direct links to journal articles.
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.

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