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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.
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.
Free access to African caselaw, legislation and journals
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.
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.
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.
Beck-Online is a German (language) full-text database, providing access to German legal resources. You can search legal magazines, commentaries, legal codes of each state and court rulings.It further includes about 500 (full text) handbooks, lexica and commentaries, over 90 (full text) professional law journals and an abundance of statutes and court decisions.”
Provides access to South African Bills introduced in the National Assembly from 1998 to the present.
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.
This database allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.
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.
South African research projects in economics, science, humanities and includes masters and doctoral theses from South African Universities and technikons, as well as research works from government, non-government and private sectors.
The Database of African Theses and Dissertations (DATAD) is a programme to improve management and access to African scholarly work. It is an abstracts database containing information from 11 African institutions, some as far back as 1982.
The primary aim of DOAB is to increase discoverability of Open Access books that meet academic standards.
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.
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.
Access to selected e-books.
Search and view the full text of the selection of eBooks purchased by UCT Libraries.
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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.
UCT staff and students, for unlimited access in 2024. Please see instructions below.
Electronic Meyerowitz
Available from the Reference PC in the UCT Law Library.
Access is limited to 1 user at a time.
FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1996 constitutes a one-of-a-kind archive of transcripts of foreign broadcasts and news that provides fascinating insight into the second half of the 20th century. Many of these materials are firsthand reports of events as they occurred.
Foreign tax and commercial laws of the world on CD-ROM
Stand-alone access in Law Library.
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.
IBFD is the world’s foremost authority on cross-border taxation. Tax practitioners from all over the world rely on its high-quality, independent tax research. Access to publications from the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.
IFLP is produced in the United States, and "foreign" means "non-Anglo-American". The database is not limited by country of publication, but rather by content of the publication (thus British and American publications about non-Anglo-American law will be included) IFLP indexes journals published in South Africa such as: SALJ, SAJHR, CILSA, SAYIL, THRHR, and TSAR. IFLP covers the period 1985 to date
ILP indexes over 600 major legal periodicals. It also indexes over 2000 books annually. The database cover the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and is a very comprehensive index to major periodicals on Anglo-American law. The index covers the period 1981 to date.
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 individual notices and proclamations, an overview of legislation and detailed summaries of recently promulgated Acts.
Access is limited to 1 user at a time.
Provides access to a wealth of pertinent and useful information relating to industrial relations. IR Network covers the latest developments in labour related issues, including reported judgments and awards, statutory materials, labour organisations, trade union directories, agreements and negotiation documents and news clippings.
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.
The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) lists details of more than 4,000 publications each year, with articles from some 1,150 periodicals. The IABO concentrates on publications dealing with the African Continent as a whole, classified according to subjects such as agriculture, and nutrition, anthropology, art, economics and development, education, history and archaeology, languages, law, literature, politics, religion and philosophy, science and social sciences. Titles are also arranged by region, including individual countries, and the African Diaspora is included as a category of its own. Articles and monographs are presented separately in the IABO.
"This publication explains the principles governing the taxation of trusts in the countries surveyed, stating clearly where the difficulties and points of uncertainty are. It reveals enormous divergences in the approaches of different countries to this subject." [Source: http://ip-online2.ibfd.org/igtt/, 06/09/2005]
(please see IBFD Library Portal)
"This publication explains the principles governing the taxation of trusts in the countries surveyed, stating clearly where the difficulties and points of uncertainty are. It reveals enormous divergences in the approaches of different countries to this subject." [Source: http://ip-online2.ibfd.org/igtt/, 06/09/2005]
(please see IBFD Library Portal)
Access to Science Edition and Social Sciences Edition from 2001 to present.
For access assistance please contact your Law Librarian.
i-law.com is a vast online database of legal knowledge. Specialising in the key areas of Maritime & Commercial Law, Insurance & Reinsurance, Construction Law, Dispute Resolution/Arbitration, Financial Crime, Tax & Finance Law, Intellectual Property and Medical Law.
Free online English dictionary and thesaurus, including audio pronunciation.
NetLaw provides access to 828 updated principal acts, rules and regulations from 1910 to the present.
OER Commons is a public digital library of open educational resources. Note that textbooks are included in these resources. Open Educational Resources (OER) offer opportunities for systemic change in teaching and learning content through engaging educators in new participatory processes and effective technologies for engaging with learning.
Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.
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".
The Oxford English Dictionary is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
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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.

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
U.K. Parliamentary Papers (previously The House of Commons Parliamentary Papers) are vital to the historical record of Britain, its former Colonies and the wider world. They are among the richest and most detailed primary sources for the history of the past two centuries, and are fundamental to an understanding of current legislation, policy making and the political environment.
Click on the link above, then click on LOGIN and select World Constitutions Illustrated from the list of subscribed libraries.

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