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A comprehensive digital platform for engineering reference materials, including videos, interactive graphs, and McGraw-Hill professional titles for students and professionals.
NewsBank provides access to thousands of news sources worldwide, supporting research in current events, business, politics, and culture with full-text newspaper articles.
A medical reference database by McGraw-Hill offering core medical textbooks, multimedia, drug information, self-assessment tools, and clinical guidelines for education and practice.
AccessPharmacy is a pharmacy education platform with textbooks, case studies, multimedia, and self-assessment tools, offering comprehensive drug and pharmacy content.
A digital science encyclopedia from McGraw-Hill with 8,500+ articles and research updates spanning major scientific fields.
Full-text access to American Chemical Society journals, covering disciplines such as chemistry, biochemistry, materials science, environmental science, and chemical engineering.
A ProQuest collection of over 250 works—fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction—by African authors, reflecting postcolonial literature, culture, and history.
A JSTOR-hosted digital library offering African heritage and scholarly resources, including archival materials and curated research content.
Access to AIP journals and conference proceedings in physics, materials science, and applied mathematics, including Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.
Provides APS journals such as Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics, featuring cutting-edge research in fundamental and applied physics.
A comprehensive source of materials engineering knowledge from ASM International, including physical properties, manufacturing processes, and applications.
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Scholarly ebooks in the humanities and social sciences—philosophy, law, history—published by Bloomsbury Academic.
The official UK medicinal product quality standards, including monographs and guidance for manufacturing and quality control.
Brill Online provides access to e-books published by Brill.
A reference database with detailed descriptions and architectural drawings of various building types, useful for design and analysis.
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Cambridge University Press's platform offering ebooks and journals across various disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, STEM, and law.
A visual tool that maps the relationship between academic papers, helping users explore the citation network.
CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.
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An architectural design resource providing building types, details, drawings, and material guidance.
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A powerful, multi-disciplinary search platform providing access to academic journals, ebooks, and other scholarly content.
Note: may not support Internet Explorer
eBooks on EBSCOhost offers a wide selection of eBook titles across various subjects, available for online reading or download. This collection includes selected titles on topics such as literature, business, technology, health, and more. Access may vary based on institutional subscriptions
A research database offering peer-reviewed journals, case studies, and management books in business, education, and library studies.
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Offers access to GSA journals, special publications, and field guides in earth sciences.
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A legal research platform housing historical and government documents, law journals, case law, international treaties, and more.
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Provides access to IEEE journals, conferences, standards, and ebooks in engineering, computing, and technology.
A research analytics platform from Clarivate offering performance evaluation, benchmarking, and institutional comparisons.
A collection of InfoSci journals covering management, library science, IT, and social sciences.
An indexing database for physics, electronics, computing, control, and engineering literature from IEEE, IET, and other publishers.
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A digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources across humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
A peer-reviewed video journal teaching life sciences concepts and protocols through visual demonstrations.
Clarivate's annual journal performance metrics, including impact factor, citation data, and ranking.
A platform offering medical, nursing, and allied health journals through OvidSP.
A statistical database offering structured data and analytics on South African socio-economic indicators.
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A full-text database including news, legal cases, business, and medical journals.
A nursing reference resource providing evidence-based clinical procedure guidelines and skills content.
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A database published by the American Mathematical Society featuring reviews, abstracts, and bibliographic data in mathematics.
A comprehensive reference work containing articles on international law, legal principles, and case law analyses.
A clinical reference database for drug information, toxicology, and disease management.
Personal-access version of LexisNexis for legal, business, news and public records research.
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PubMed® comprises more than 38 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books.
A freely accessible archive of life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine.
Offers full-page newspaper and magazine editions from thousands of global publications.
A 3D interactive anatomy platform used in medical and life science education for in-depth human anatomy exploration.
A multidisciplinary academic database with access to journals, dissertations, newspapers, and streaming media.
A collection of streaming videos, articles, and training resources in psychotherapy and mental health.
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An open-access subset of RSC content, offering free versions of RSC-published research articles.
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A full-text database of African scholarly journals across multiple disciplines.
Official regional and national government publications including legal notices, regulations, and public announcements.
Official South African legal legislation database, including consolidated acts and amendments.
Regional official publications in South Africa, including legal notices, regulations, and public announcements.
A platform providing legislative documents and updates specific to South African provinces.
A collection of international research projects and results, often drawn from National Research Databases.
A provider of aviation data, weather charts, and flight navigation information for pilots and aerospace professionals.
A national union catalogue of South African theses and dissertations, with holdings from multiple universities.
Archive of South African news clippings and media coverage.