ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Sites for Literature Searches
To Support Study, Teaching and Research Activities
There are a number of websites and databases that can be accessed directly from your computer. The staff in the library's literature search section are also ready to assist you so that your information searches are as effective as possible.
Contact: Mrs Pretorius or Ms Masilela, upper floor of the library, Room 112, X4642 (bernice@ul.ac.za)
The following sites may be of interest:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Pubmed/ PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to millions of MEDLINE citations. PubMed includes links to many sites with full-text articles and other related resources |
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SA ePublications is a collection of 46 South African medical journals on the SA ePublications database. They are available online and in full-text format. To access these journals, go to the above website and then click on SA ePublications (Below IP authentication) |
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Government Gazettes Including: • Government Gazettes - from Jan 1994 • Compilation of all Indexes pertaining to the past week's Government Gazettes • All Provincial Gazettes – from Sept 1995 • Parliamentary Bills – from Jan 1999 Please contact Mrs Pretorius X4642 for assistance.
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A database which gives access to 150 full-text Wolters Kluwver/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins (LWW) journal titles. (For a password please contact Mrs Pretorius at X4642). |
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http://www.thecochranelibrary.com The Cochrane Library includes reliable evidence from the Cochrane database. |
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Proquest includes access to eight databases including Proquest Psychology, Proquest Nursing and Proquest Biology. Full-text access of many articles is available. (For a password please contact Mrs Pretorius X4642) |
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BMJ Journals Includes full-text articles from 21 British medical journals. |
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Emerald covers a wide range of management and library & information services journals, as well as a strong specialist range of engineering, applied science and technology journals. |
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Ebscohost provides access to eleven databases which include MEDLINE and ERIC. Many full-text articles are available. |
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ScienceDirect is a database that provides access to over 1700 scientific, technical & medical peer-reviewed journals. |
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SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics… |
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Institute of Physics' website includes full-text access to many journals published by the Institute of Physics |
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Access is provided to an interdisciplanary archive of scholarly journals, including access to many full-text articles.
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Web of Science provides bibliographic information from more than 8,700 journals in science, technology, social sciences, arts and humanities. A reference management tool, EndNoteWeb, is also available on this website and can be accessed after registering as a user on the website. |
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http://www.accessmedicine.com/home.aspx This database gives access to a collection of 46 electronic textbooks. No password is required but AccessMedicine can only be used by 2 simultaneous users. |
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Access to online full-text articles from selected journals which the library subscribes to. |
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Scirus is a comprehensive science-specific search engine on the Internet and searches over 150 million web pages. |
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. |
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| South African Acts and Statutes |
| Available on CD-Rom in the Literature Search Section. Contact Mrs Pretorius X4642. |
