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Access to journal titles CPUT library has available in full text format via all Databases.
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Search more than 750 business periodicals and newsletters with a trade or industry focus. Provides users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information, marketing trends, and a wide variety of other topics. Contains publications on every major industry, including finance, insurance, transportation, construction, and many more.
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Approved Methods of Analysis - used by the Food Technology department.
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Business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Updated daily.
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Social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
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is a complete online product that allows users to quickly search the diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of emergency cases with videos and animations.
Restricted: This database may only be used by four users at a time. If you are unable to access it now please try again later.
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McGraw-Hill's AccessScience features fully searchable content from McGraw-Hill's Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 10th Edition. The new generation of AccessScience gathers and synthesizes vast amounts of information, and organizes it to give you fast, easy and accurate access to authoritative articles in all major areas of science and technology.
Restricted: This database may only be used by three users at a time. If you are unable to access it now please try again later.
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The ACM Digital Library (DL) ( http://www.acm.org/dl ) is the most comprehensive collection of full-text articles and bibliographic records in existence today covering the fields of computing and information technology. The full-text database includes the complete collection of ACM's publications, including journals, conference proceedings, magazines, newsletters, and multimedia titles.
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Africa-Wide: NiPAD, produced by NISC South Africa, offers coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations.
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Search full-text journals in agriculture and related fields.
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Aluka is an international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa.
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Journals published by the American Chemical Society – covers chemistry and chemical related subjects.
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Subjects covered include art, antiques, archaeology, architecture and architectural history, art history, decorative arts, painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, costume design, sculpture, interior and landscape design, graphic arts, etc.
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The Berg Fashion Library provides access to interdisciplinary and integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion. It covers all regions of the world, with in-depth content from pre-history to the present day contributed by internationally-renowned scholars.
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Provides quick access to all facts pertaining to a Bill and its history.
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Covers all manufacturing and service industries including products, brands and applied technologies.
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Focuses on the processes, methods and strategies of managing a business – it emphasizes the practical side of business and management i.e. how organizations make decisions, adapt and implement new technologies and techniques.
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Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics. This database is updated daily.
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Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas – there are 250 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market in this database - spanning over 32 subject areas, ranging from Agriculture, Archaeology and Anthropology, Nutrition, to Psychology and Cognitive Science, Religion and Social Studies.
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Designed for both students and instructors, ProQuest Career and Technical Education is an excellent source of vocational information for community colleges, two-year institutions, public libraries, and high schools offering technical courses.
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The Cement and Concrete Institute Library database, CNCL, contains more than 40 000 technical references on all aspects of cement and concrete. These references reflect the physical collection of books, conference proceedings, pamphlets, journals and electronic media housed in the library at Halfway House, Gauteng.
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Provides full text for nearly 600 journals nursing & allied health journals. CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines.
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The Citation Linker is a part of our SFX service. If you have an article citation from a bibliography or reading list, try using the Citation Linker to see if the article is available online or in the Library. Enter as much information as you have about the article in the appropriate boxes on the online form, and click on the SFX button in the lower right corner of the form. This will generate a window that provides links to available online full text.
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CLOVERDEX is a database of indexed periodical articles collected by the company CLOVER S.A. (Pty). It contains information primarily connected with the dairy industry in general, but also related operational aspects such as dairy products, manufacturing, agriculture, animal husbandry, management, finance, distribution, sales, cooling, transportation, etc.
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This multidisciplinary, full-text database brings together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, "gray" literature, and the alternative press -- with a focus on the critical issues and events that influence women's lives in more than 190 countries.
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Offering 550 highly-regarded reference titles, Credo General Reference Premium covers every major subject from the world's best publishers of reference works.
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South African research projects in economics, science, humanities and includes the masters and doctoral theses from the South African Universities and technikons, as well as the research works from the government, non-government and private sectors.
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Dentistry & Oral Sciences Source covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics.
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Provides access to open access peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly journals.
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Doctoral dissertations and master's theses are a vital fund of scholarship for any discipline. The massive body of work available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) represents the most comprehensive source of academic research in the world.
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Medicine, Nutrition, diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, hardware, software, Electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and many more general interest topics.
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Search over 400 full-text journals in education and related fields. Coverage: 1988-present.
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The Educator's Reference Desk brings you the following type of resources 2,000+ lesson plans, 3,000+ links to online education information, and 200+ question archive responses.
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Management disciplines including: strategy; leadership; library and information management; marketing and human resource management; engineering, applied science and technology.
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Over 6,000,000 summaries of journal articles, technical reports, and conference papers and proceedings dating from 1970 forward.
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ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. ERIC contains more than 1,300,000 records and links to more than 323,000 full-text documents.
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The Fiction database has been updated with records from the SACat, expanding and enhancing the database to 209 975 records. The database includes different formats of fiction records e.g. printed, braille and sound recordings, from various library collections in Southern Africa. The database is updated.
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FS ArticleFirst is an OCLC index of articles from nearly 12,500 journals. Includes items listed on the table of contents pages of journals. Describes one article, news story, letter, or other item from a journal in each record. Provides a list of South African libraries that have the journal title for most items.
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Provides expert guidance on food safety, quality assurance, processing, brewing, regulations, and microbiology. This collection offers information on latest functional foods, antioxidants, foodborne pathogens, and packaging technologies.
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Provides access to bibliographic information on forestry-related issues.
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Medicine, Nutrition, diseases, Public Health, Occupational Health and Safety, hardware, software, Electronics, engineering, communications and the application of technology business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, and many more general interest topics.
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Gale Virtual Reference Library links to electronic access to encyclopaedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
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Features business and enterprise headlines for many corporations including their financial decisions and major news events. Stock information is available, as are Adobe Flash-based stock price charts. The site also aggregates Google News and Google Blog Search articles about each corporation.
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Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
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Provides easy access to full-text databases of Government and Provincial Gazettes, Government Gazette Index and Parliamentary Bills.
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Includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
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This scholarly art encyclopedia covers all aspects of Western and non-Western visual art. It includes the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 volumes).
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Provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Also featured are abstracts and indexing for nearly 850 journals.
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Covers consumer health information. This resource provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines. This database also includes searchable full text for more than 1,000 health-related pamphlets and more than 130 health reference books.
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The ICE Virtual Library gives access to the largest repository of full text civil engineering papers in the world. From here you can search the ICE archive of technical papers from 1836 to the present day.
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Provides full-text access full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering and technology. You will find peer-reviewed articles from the top-cited journals in the field,
cutting-edge conference papers, all IEEE published and approved standards plus over 20,000 new documents are added each month, updated weekly.
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Index to South African Periodicals (ISAP) covers indexed articles from more than 900 South African periodicals. Specialist periodicals are indexed fully, whereas general and popular periodicals are indexed selectively.
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Covers the health sciences: Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing. Subjects covered include: Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Dentistry, Forensic Medicine, Hematology, Nutrition, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Orthopedics, Ophthalmology, Pediatrics, Physiology, Physiotherapy, Medical Laboratory Technology, Microbiology and Immunology, Nursing, Preventive and Social Medicine, Radiology and Ultrasound, Surgery.
The platform offers a large collection of ebooks, ejournals and videos of live surgeries.
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CPUT has access to over a thousand leading journals in the Arts & Sciences Collections and the Life Science Collection. Since it is an archive, we do not have access to the most recent current issues.
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This database is compiled by the Research Institute for Education Planning of the Faculty of Education at the UOFS.
Articles are selected according to the needs of the primary clients of the University of the Orange Free State. Also includes Research Institute for Education Planning (Riep) which covers a wide range of reference works on the theory and practice of education dating back to 1975-1997. From 1998 all Riep data was incorporated into Kovsidex.
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Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s. LISTA indexes more than 560 core journals, nearly 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals.
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Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, full text reference books, biographies, and an Image Collection of photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily.
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Covers every aspect of concrete manufacture and behaviour from performance and evaluation of constituent materials to mix design, testing, durability, structural analysis and composite construction.
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MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more.
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Mintek Publications is a bibliographic database containing the results of Mintek’s original research in the fields of metals and industrial minerals. Topics include economic geology, mineralogy, minerals engineering, extraction technology, hydrometallurgy, pyrometallurgy, biotechnology, process chemistry, measurement and control, environmental control and physical metallurgy. The database consists of reports, patents, special publications, and papers generated from research done at Mintek and published in journals or presented at conferences.
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Research and Knowledge Networking Databases in South Africa.
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The Technikon Research Database (Navtech) contains information on current and completed research projects undertaken at South African technikons.
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Contains all updated Principal Acts, Rules and Regulations from 1910 to the present.
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Newspaper Source provides selected full text for 23 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts.
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Provides in-depth content covering areas including conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.
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Features the results of 120 years of review and approval of collaboratively studied methods. AOAC is the leader in providing validated methods, proficiency test samples, accreditation criteria, and scientific information to industry, government agencies, and academic institutions.
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Oxford Art Online is an innovative gateway that offers users the ability to access and search the vast content of Grove Art Online, the Oxford Companion to Western Art, the Concise Dictionary of Art Terms, and Oxford’s Encyclopedia of Aesthetics in one location.
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The Bills provide access to the South African Bills as introduced to the National Assembly.
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Social Sciences, Telecommunications, Education, Science, Engineering, Dissertations & Thesis, Business, Economics, Medical, Agriculture and Computing.
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Search top computing journals in full text for research on subjects such as database design, software development, web commerce, LANs, WANs, Intranets, and the Internet.
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Titles published by the American Medical Association.
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This database provides comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States . This database is updated on a daily basis.
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RefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.
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Centre for Rural Legal Studies the main focus is on agriculture and agricultural workers on commercial farms in South Africa. Emphasis is placed on labour law and labour relations, working conditions, housing, tenure, socio-economic conditions, land reform and rural local government and gender aspects relating to the above. Coverage is both national and international.
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Co-operative, computerised database of all library stock in Southern Africa. Includes books, journals, conference proceedings, standards, technical reports. Updated weekly.
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Covers national, as well as international information through indexed records . ISAP, Kovsidex, Forestry, Centre for rural study and Mintek.
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Provides full-text access to articles published in South African journals.
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Provides easy access to full-text databases of Government and Provincial Gazettes, Government Gazette Index and Parliamentary Bills.
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Gain access to the latest legislation and judgements. SA Statutes, Provincial legislation, Daily Law Reports.
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Compilation of books, pamphlets, government publications, microforms, maps, technical reports, and periodicals published in South Africa. Updated monthly.
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SA Media covers more than 120 South African newspapers and periodicals. More than 500 articles are selected daily, categorized according to 22 categories and indexed in Afrikaans and English. Copies of original articles are available from microfiche archives for the period 1978 to 1996. Digital images of articles are available online since January 1997.
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South African Rates and Data (SARAD)is the leading resource for media, marketing and advertising professionals in South Africa. Concise and up to date data directories, offering an extensive collection of media contacts and current rates, are supplemented with dedicated media buying and selling tools to streamline the efficacy of advertising in the mainstream media.
(Please contact your faculty librarian for the company code, username and password)
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The South African Press Association database (SAPA) consists of news reports on politics, finance, commerce, sport and news in general. News is gathered from various sources such as input from member newspapers, stringers and correspondents, own reporters in the field and agreements with smaller regional news agencies. SAPA is a South African national news agency and supplies its news to the print media, radio and television, foreign correspondents based in South Africa, government departments, political parties, foreign missions in South Africa and to corporate clients.
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An electronic collection of full text and bibliographic information covering the following: physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, and social sciences and humanities.
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Search full text and images for the leading periodicals in science and technology. Subject coverage includes computers, engineering, physics, telecommunications, and transportation.
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Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature and quality web sources with smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
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Search this database to learn how to start, finance or manage your small business. Resources include sample business plans, how to guides, articles and websites.
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Search full-text periodicals covering the social sciences.
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SPORTDiscus with Fulltext is the most comprehensive, bibliographic database covering sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, sports science, physical education, kinesiology, coaching, training, sport administration, officiating, sport law & legislation etc.
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Biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, and economics.
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Provides a relevant and accurate body of statistics to inform users on the dynamics in the economy and society through the application of internationally acclaimed practices.
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Lists all periodicals approved as research platforms. Updated annually.
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The service offers a straightforward interface simplifying online access to electronic publications.
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Please note that we do not subscribe to the complete Taylor and Francis collection but only to a limited number of single e-journals.
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Provides indexing and abstracting for 280 lf the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist educators.
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The database includes over 150 titles, with more than 120 available in full text. Subjects: computer applications; data communications and data transmission systems; electronic data processing; information science and information theory, radio and television.
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The SA Tenders, TradeWorld, contains tender advertisements, published either in hard copy or on the Internet, or received directly by TradeWorld. This includes tenders issued by municipal, government, semi-government and the private sector. TradeWorld is part of the TSS, Tactical Software Systems, group. With a proud history dating back to 1906, TradeWorld Leads and Tenders product is Africas largest tender and enquiry-based procurement service.
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Provides extensive coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing. Formerly the Institute of Textile Technology's Textile Technology Digest, this database traces the body of knowledge in textile science and technology as far back as the early years of the 20th century.
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The Union Catalogue for Thesis and Dissertations (UCTD) contains bibliographic records of theses and dissertations at master and doctorate level submitted to universities in South Africa. Honorary doctorates are also included. Coverage: 1918-present.
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Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. This database includes research ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment. With over 1,854,600 citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s, this resource is essential for those dealing with all aspects of water and water-related subjects
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Wiley Online Library offers a multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
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All dissertations, theses and published material based on theses cataloged by OCLC members worldwide.
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This repository contains various World Bank publications from 2009-2012 (more than 2,100 books and papers) across a wide range of topics and all regions of the world. This includes the World Development Report, and other annual flagship publications, academic books, practitioner volumes, and the Bank's publicly disclosed country studies and analytical reports. The repository also contains journal articles from 2007-2010 from the two World Bank journals WBRO and WBER.
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WGSN is the leading online trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries.
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