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Faculty of Agriculture and Natural Sciences: A to Z Database Subscriptions

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A to Z Database Subscriptions


  • Type: EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1887, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,400 journals.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost Business Source Complete

  • Subject: Subject specific Business database

  • Content: Provides the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition, searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost Ebooks

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Search and view the full text of eBooks

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost Health Source Consumer Edition

  • Subject: Subject specific Health database

  • Content: Provides the richest collection of consumer health information available to libraries worldwide, providing information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost MasterFILE Complete

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1922. It contains full text for more than 1,000 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost MEDLINE

  • Subject: Medical

  • Content: Provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations from over 5,400 current biomedical journals.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: EBSCOhost Newspaper Source

  • Subject: News & Events

  • Content: Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 (U.S.) & international newspapers. The database also contains selective full text for 389 regional (U.S.) newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are also provided.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: ERIC

  • Subject: Education

  • Content: ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is an authoritative database of indexed and full-text education literature and resources.

  • URL: http://search.ebscohost.com/


  • Type: Perlego

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Perlego has over 500,000 professional and academic titles across 900+ different topics and subtopics. Simply search and filter to discover great books in your topic of choice.

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  • Type: Sabinet African Journals

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Sabinet African Journals encompasses the breadth and depth of African research content by offering the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform. This service, which is easy to use and accessible anytime and anywhere, is a growing service — over 500 journal titles in 10 collections are available for individuals, corporates, universities, government departments, research institutions and law firms.

  • View here: https://journals.co.za/


  • Type: ProQuest eBook Central

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides collection of eBooks on a wide range of subjects. Offers flexible options for downloading content.

  • Register here: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/


  • Type: SAGE Research Methods

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides more than 1000 books, reference works and instructional videos by world-leading academics from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher. The Methods Map can help those less familiar with research methods to find the best technique to use in their research.

  • URL: https://methods.sagepub.com/


  • Type: ScienceDirect Freedom Collection

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides access to more than 16 million articles, 2,500 journals, 370 full open access journals, 39,000 books and 330,000 topic pages to help researchers discover more insights, achieve more breakthroughs and move their research forward.

  • URL: www.sciencedirect.com


  • Type: Taylor & Francis Online

  • Subject: Multi-disciplinary database

  • Content: Provides Humanities, Social Sciences, Behavioural Sciences, Science, Technology and Medicine collection.

  • URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/