Library Database
Please note! If you are using a tablet or mobile phone this database list will be easier to use.
Access to online Library resources is managed either via WAM or via OpenAthens. If it is via OpenAthens there will be a note next to the Database title in the Database list below.
1. WAM Access to Online Library Services/Resources (Online databases, “My UJLink”, UJoogle, Electronic Course Reserves and Interlibrary Loans)
- Use your UJ Email password and your UJ username (Staff) or UJ student number (Campus Option) OR
- Use the current Library Option (i.e. Surname, UJ ID & Library PIN)
2. OpenAthens Access to Online Resources (such as online Databases, UJoogle)
Access online Library services by using your UJ username (Staff) or UJ student number and your UJ Email password.
For more information on access using OpenAthens, visit this OpenAthens Guide.
How do I use the filter?
1. To filter by Database Title, select the First Letter of the Title and select Submit.
2. To filter by one or more Subjects, select the Box next to the required subject(s) and select Submit. Remember to include Multidisciplinary in your selection.
3. To clear all filters, select Reset search criteria.
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Link | Subjects | Description |
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SABS complete collection of standards and related documents | Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Engineering and Technology, Management, Mining and Metallurgy, Multidisciplinary, Standards | SABS complete collection of standards and related documents Full-text View only – the printing of online standards has been disabled due to copyright restrictions. |
SAGE Business Cases OpenAthens | Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Case studies, Multidisciplinary | Sage Business Cases curates interdisciplinary cases on in-demand subjects such as entrepreneurship, accounting, healthcare management, leadership, social enterprise, and more. |
SAGE Journals Online OpenAthens | Communication and Media studies, Education, Engineering and Technology, Health and Medicine, Historical studies, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, Town and regional planning | Peer-reviewed journals across a broad range of subject areas, with good coverage of Communication, Education, Management, Material science, Nursing, Politics, Psychology, Sociology and Urban studies |
SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary, Research tool | SAGE Research Methods Online (SRMO) is designed to allow researchers to explore various research methods |
SAIRR (South African Institute of Race Relations) OpenAthens | Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Education, Economics and Econometrics, Health and Medicine, Politics, Public management and Governance, Social work, Sociology | Research, statistical data, policy critiques, forecasts and risk analysis on South Africa’s household issues |
SAPTG (South African Property Transfer Guide) see Property24 for access | Economics and Econometrics, Real estate, South African research | |
SCC Online (First time user has to register on database; 1 user access) OpenAthens | Law | Indian case law, statutory law, secondary material, foreign and international material |
Science Citation Index (SCI-Expanded) (OpenAthens) Select SCI-Expanded | Multidisciplinary | Covers bibliographic information of articles from multidisciplinary applied, natural and pure science journals across various subject areas |
Science magazine OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary | Academic, peer-reviewed international weekly science journal, with the major focus on important original scientific research, research reviews, global news, and commentary |
ScienceDirect Please note: Internet Explorer 8 is not supported on ScienceDirect OpenAthens. | E-Books, Multidisciplinary | |
SciFinder OpenAthens (Previously known as Chemical Abstracts, Refer to “C” for CAS SciFinder, CAS Analytical Methods, and CAS Formulus) First time users: please register here - this will provide you with the Username and Password required to log in. Registration problems? Contact Pavlinka Kovatcheva: 011 559-2621 | Biochemistry, Chemistry, Engineering and Technology, Health and Medicine, Patents | SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows you to explore the CAS databases Journal and Patent Literature; Substance Information; Reactions Coverage: Bibliographic |
SciVal Create logins using your UJ EMAIL OR use Sciencedirect or Scopus personal logins (OpenAthens) | Research tool | |
Scopus OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary, Reference Works, Research tool | A database of peer-reviewed literature including scientific journals, books, and conference proceedings. It offers smart tools to track, analyse, and visualize research. |
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive OpenAthens | Anthropology and Development studies, Historical studies, Law, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Sociology | This archive covers a wide spectrum of interests related to the history of slavery. Includes issues such as Law, the Caribbean, children, women, modes of resistance, etc. |
Social Sciences Citation Index | Humanities, Multidisciplinary | Covers bibliographic or reference information of articles from multidisciplinary Social Sciences journals |
Social Work Abstracts | Social work, Sociology | This database provides indexing and abstracts, covering all aspects of social work. It is a product of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) |
Social Work Reference Center | Social work, Sociology | It covers topics such as adolescent health, aging, end-of-life care, clinical social work, and diversity. Its content includes evidence-based quick lessons and care sheets and clinical assessment tools |
Sociology Source Ultimate OpenAthens | Case studies, Sociology | Sociology Source Ultimate provides the must-have materials for students studying aspects of human behavior and interaction. Coverage of topics ranges from gender identity, marriage and family, to demographics, political sociology, religion and socio-cultural anthropology. |
Sport Discus (OpenAthens) With full text | Case studies, Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Sport and Movement studies, Theses and Dissertations | Sports & sports medicine journals, reference materials and dissertations |
Springer Materials OpenAthens | Biochemistry, Chemistry, Engineering and Technology | SpringerMaterials provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering, and other related fields. |
SpringerLink OpenAthens | Anthropology and Development studies, Architecture, Art and Art design, Botany, Biochemistry, Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Chemistry, Communication and Media studies, Economics and Econometrics, Environmental and Energy science, Financial sciences, Food technology, Geography, Geology, Health and Medicine, Information science and Knowledge managementInformation science and Knowledge management, Information technology, Law, Management, Mathematical sciences, Multidisciplinary, Physics and Astrophysics, Politics, Psychology, Public management and Governance, Sociology, Zoology | SpringerLink’s complete online collection covers books, journals, reference works, protocols and databases within the fields of science, technology, and medicine. UJ’s journal subscription includes the: |
Statista OpenAthens | Marketing, Multidisciplinary | Statistics, consumer survey results and industry studies from over 22500 sources on over 60000 topics, Reports, Infographics, Services & Global Consumer Survey |
Taylor & Francis Online OpenAthens | E-Books, Multidisciplinary | Full text access to over 1750 high quality academic journals published by companies in the Taylor & Francis Group. Over 460 societies and institutions are associated to Taylor & Francis. |
Taylor and Francis ebooks OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary | Ebooks |
Teacher Reference Centre OpenAthens | Case studies, Education | Provides indexing and abstracts for 280 periodicals. It covers the fields of Assessment, Continuing Education, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, School Administration, Science and Mathematics, and Teacher Education. |
Thieme Chemistry Journals OpenAthens | Chemistry | Thieme chemistry journals collection |
Thieme Teaching Assistant OpenAthens | Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, E-Books, Health and Medicine | State-of-the-art presentation tool featuring thousands of useful illustrations and clinical images from Gilroy et al. Full text |
Thomson Reuters Eikon Username and Password required, Please contact the CBE Librarian, Madumella Mofokeng, on 011 559 1397, email mmofokeng@uj.ac.za | Banking, Economics and Econometrics, Financial sciences, Management, South African research | Reuters News, Global Pricing Data, Company Fundamentals, Unmatched Real-Time Research, Commodities data & Research, Datastream, Lipper Funds Data, Deals, & League Tables. |
UJ IR (UJContent) Institutional Repository | Multidisciplinary, Theses and Dissertations | UJ Institutional Repository |
UJ Library Catalogue | Multidisciplinary | The UJ Library catalogue reflects the collection of items found in its various libraries. It is a systematically arranged list of all library holdings. All formats are reflected, such as print and e-books, periodical titles, manuscripts, maps, films, audio records and other graphic material. It contains the bibliographical information of each document. |
University Publishing Online OpenAthens | E-Books, Multidisciplinary | University Publishing Online provides access to eBooks from the world-renowned publishing programmes of our partner presses, covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences. Selected titles purchased. PDF format |
Urban Studies Abstracts OpenAthens | Case studies, Sociology | Bibliographic index covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. |
US History Collection Open Athens | Case studies, Historical studies, Politics | Balanced coverage of events in US history and scholarly work being established in the field. |
VLeBooks (Askews and Holts Library services) OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary | |
Vlex Justis OpenAthens | Law | Case law and legislation in the UK, Ireland, EU and the Caribbean. Also includes cases and legislation (Conventions and Protocols) of the European Court of Human Rights |
War and Terrorism Collection OpenAthens | Case studies, Historical studies, Politics | Balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism. |
WARC (World Advertising Research Center) OpenAthens | Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Case studies, Marketing | Case studies on campaign strategies of leading brands, market intelligence, advertising forecasts, brand profiles, conference reports on top advertisers brands and agencies |
WAT (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal) 13 dele (A - R) | Dictionaries, Language and literature | Full text explanatory Afrikaans dictionary (A – R) |
Waters & Oceans Worldwide OpenAthens | Case studies, Engineering and Technology, Environmental and Energy science, Geology, Mining and Metallurgy | Databases on all facets of international water research, ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment. |
Westlaw International OpenAthens | Law | International law |
Westlaw UK OpenAthens | Law | |
Westlaw US OpenAthens | Law | |
Who owns whom OpenAthens | Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Economics and Econometrics, South African research | |
Wiley Digital Archives OpenAthens | Anthropology and Development studies, Geography, Health and Medicine, Historical studies, Multidisciplinary | An ongoing initiative with the world’s leading societies to digitize unique and rare primary sources; a huge range of photos, maps, sketches tables as well as letters, books and journals. You have access to three of the collections: |
Wiley Online Library OpenAthens | Health and Medicine, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Science, Sociology | A broad multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. |
Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities OpenAthens | Historical studies, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Social work, Sociology | This archive covers the social, political and professional aspects of women’s lives and their roles, experiences and achievements. |
Women's Studies International OpenAthens | Anthropology and Development studies, Case studies, Education, Economics and Econometrics, Historical studies, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Public management and Governance | Covers the core disciplines in Women’ s Studies in the areas of Sociology, History, Political science and Economy, Public policy,International relations, Arts and Humanities, Business and Education |
World Bank E-Library OpenAthens | Anthropology and Development studies, Multidisciplinary, Politics | Coverage: 1970 to the present |
World Competiveness Online OpenAthens | Multidisciplinary | |
World Politics Review OpenAthens | Case studies, Politics | Politics, International relations. |
Total: 251 items