A-Z Databases and Electronic Resources

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• 3ie Development Evidence Portal - Expansive and growing repository of rigorous evidence on what works in international development.

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• ACP Clinical Recommendations - Collection of Recommendation Summaries for all current ACP Clinical Guidelines, Guidance Statements and Best Practice Advice.
• ADOLEC (Adolescent Health)
• AHFS Consumer Medication Information- EBSCOhost 
• African Minds -  Is an open access, not-for-profit, publisher of scholarly books
• AfricaPortal (African policy-related information)
• ANU Press - Is a globally recognised leader in open-access academic publishing.
• AOSIS Open Journals - Explore their extensive collection of open-access books and journals. All our open-access content is free, and available to everyone upon publication.
• AOSIS Scholarly Books - AOSIS maximises opportunities for Higher Education institutions to support research and development through publishing scholarly books in all scientific fields.

ArchiveGrid - Includes records describing archival materials, about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.

• arXiv
• Athabasca University Press – Is an open access journal and monograph program.

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• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
• Bentham Open (Science)
• Bioline International
• BioMed Central
• Boloka: NWU Institutional Repository (NWU-IR)

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• Cabells
• Cabells Journalytics
• Cabells Predatory Reports
• Cambridge University Press –Open Access Publications
• The Campbell Collaboration
• Cape Peninsula University of Technology: Electronic Theses and Dissertations-The Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD) repository holds full-text theses and dissertations submitted for higher degrees.

Central University of Technology: DSpace Repository

• ChemIDplus
• ChemSpider
• ChemSynthesis
• Climate Change and Human Health Literature Portal- curated bibliographic database of global peer-reviewed research and gray literature of climate impacts on human health.
• Clinical Trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) - Directory of Clinical Trials
• CDC Wonder - free access to statistical research data published by CDC
• CRD Databases - Extensive database of healthcare evidence.
• CINAHL Ultimate
• Cochrane Library

CORE

• Current Controlled Trials (ISRCTN registry)

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• Database of Genomic Structural Variation (dbVar)- NCBI's database of genomic structural variation. 
• DATAD-R – Database of African These and Dissertations
• De Gruyter Open
• DeCS/MeSH - Health Science Descriptors/Medical Subject Headings [Multilingual and structured thesaurus – Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French]

• Dietary Supplement Label Database  
• Digital Book Index
• Digital Commons Network - The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide.

Digital Innovation South Africa -DISA is a freely accessible online scholarly resource focusing on the socio-political history of South Africa

• Directory of Open Access Books
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• DMPTool The DMP Tool is a free, open-source, application that helps researchers create data management plans (DMPs).

DUT Open Scholar - Open Scholar is the institutional repository of Durban University of Technology

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• E-Books– EBSCOhost
• eBook Subscription Harvard Business Publishing Collection (EBSCOhost)
• eBook Subscription Psychology/Psychiatry Collection (EBSCOhost)
• EBSCOhost Research Databases

All EBSCOhost databases, cross-searchable, providing coverage for journal articles and other information in academic disciplines. Databases included are described on the database selection page. Many include links to full text of the articles indexed.

• EDP Open - EDP Sciences publishes more than 50 academic journals

• Elife

• Elsevier Open Access Journals
• EPPI-Centre (social sciences systematic reviews)
• ERIC - EBSCOhost 
• Espacenet - Free access to over 150 million patent documents.

EthxWeb- Literature in Bioethics

• European Pubmed Central

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• F1000 Research
• Full Text Finder- EBSCOhost

• Free Medical Journals 
• Freepatentsonline (WIPO, US, EP, JP)

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• GenBank - NIH genetic sequence database
• Globethics Library -  This is the world's leading open online library aimed at providing quality resources in the field of ethics, higher education, policy engagement, and ethical leadership.
• Global Ethics Observatory - a system of databases with worldwide coverage in bioethics and other areas of applied ethics from UNESCO.
• Global Index Medicus -worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low-middle income countries.
• Google Books - Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
• Google Dataset Search -  Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets.
• Google Patent Search - Search and read the full text of patents from around the world.
• Google Scholar - Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

• GreenFile- EBSCOhost

Grey Matters- free online tool for finding health-related grey literature.

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• HathiTrust - HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
• HeinOnline - Extensive collection of legal information, including international law resources.
• Health Source: Consumer Edition - EBSCOhost

• Health Source: Nursing / Academic Edition - EBSCOhost
• Health Systems Evidence
• HighWire Press
• HINARI  
• HIV Databases - A comprehensive data on HIV genetic sequences and immunological epitopes. 
• HIV Molecular Immunology Database [HIV Molecular Immunology Database] 

HSRC Press Open Access - Open Access platform that ensures worldwide dissemination of cutting-edge research.

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• Impact factors see Journal Citation Reports
• Intech Open
• IOP Science Extra
• iSalpi

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• Journal Citation Reports
• JSTOR

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• Karger Open
• KovsieScholar Repository – Digital archive for University of the Free State.

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• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts: LISTA - EBSCOhost
• LILACS- (Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information)
• LitCovid - A curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus, providing a central access to thousands of relevant articles in PubMed.
• LOADB: Listing of Open Access Databases - collection of Open Access Databases

Luminos - University of California Press’s Open Access program for monographs.

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• MDPI Open Access Journals
• Medknow
• MEDLINE Ultimate- EBSCOhost
• Mednar - medically-focused deep web search engine.
• medRxiv - the preprint server for Health Sciences

MIT Open Courseware

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• National Academies Press (NAP)
• Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)
• New York Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report (grey literature)
• NHS Evidence (UK national guidelines and evidence-based information)

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• OAPEN Library [Books in Humanities and Social Sciences]
• OECD iLibrary- This is the global knowledge base for OECD's data and analysis.
• OMICS Publishing Group
• Open Access Monographs @ UCT - Platform to support monographs and textbooks.
• Open Access Theses & Dissertations
• Open Grey (Grey literature)
• Open Knowledge Repository -The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)
• OpenDOAR - The OpenDOAR service provides a quality-assured listing of open access repositories around the world.
• OpenHub Repository - The Sol Plaatje University Institutional Repository (Openhub) is an open digital archive.

OpenRefine / Google Refine - OpenRefine is a powerful free, open source tool for working with messy data.

• Open Research Online (ORO)
• OurResearch – This is a web-based tool you can use to discover the online impact of your research.
• OpenStax - Peer-reviewed textbooks openly available. Includes books on fundamentals of Management, Entrepreneurship and Organizational behaviour.
• Open Textbook Library - Open textbooks are licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted.

OpenUCT- - Digital archive for University of  Cape Town.

• Oxford University Press

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• Popline (reproductive health)
• PQDT Open –Dissertations and Theses
• PracticeUpdate
• Preprint server directory

PrePubMed - PrePubMed indexed preprints for 2 years from arXiv q-bio, PeerJ Preprints, bioRxiv, F1000Research, preprints.org, The Winnower, Nature Preceding’s, and Wellcome Open Research.

• PrimateLit
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection – EBSCOhost
• PubChem
• Public Health Genomics and Precision Health Knowledge Base -  Databases of genomics and precision health discoveries.
• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• PubMed Central
• PubMed Central Journals

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• None

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• ResearchSpace – Institutional repository of the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

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• Sabinet African Journals
• Sabinet Open Journals
• Sabinet Reference (New platform)
• SAGE Open - SAGE
• SafetyLit: Injury Prevention Literature Update & Archive Database- Weekly updates of injury research and prevention literature.  
• SAMRC InfoSpace Repository
• SAMJ Archives
• ScholarLed - A consortium of academic-led, not-for-profit, Open Access book publishers

• ScienceDirect
• Science Supercourse
• Scientific Research Open Access Journals -A publisher of open access journals.
• Scival
• Scopus
• SEALS Digital Commons - Digital collections of academic institutions in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
• SHERPA/RoMEO - Publisher copyright policies & self-archiving.
• Social Science Research Network
• Sociology Source Ultimate – EBSCOhost
• South African E-Publications
• Springer Nature
• SpringerOpen
• Statistics South Africa - Improving lives through data ecosystems.
• STM Source- EBSCOhost

SUNScholar -Digital archive for Stellenbosch University

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• Taylor & Francis Open Journals
• TED Talks - TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity.
• Toxicology Literature Online (TOXLINE)
• TUT Digital Open Repository -Digital archive for Tshwane University of Technology.

Trials Register of Promoting Health Interventions (TRoPHI) - coverage of trials of interventions in health promotion and public health worldwide

• TRIP Database - Clinical search tool designed to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice

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• UJIR -Digital archive for University of Johannesburg.
• ULSpace - Digital archive for University of Limpopo.
• UMP Open Scholarship - Digital archive for University of Mpumalanga.
• UN Comtrade Database 
• UNdata 
• UnisaIR - Digital archive for Unisa.
• University of Venda: Institutional Repository
• University of Zululand Repository
• UPSpace - Digital archive for University of Pretoria.
• UWCScholar - Digital archive for University of the Western Cape.

Un-iLibrary - A comprehensive resource for the United Nations

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• Virtual Health Library (VHL)- Latin American and Caribbean health sciences literature.

VUT DigiResearch - Digital archive for Vaal University of Technology.

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• WAC Clearinghouse Books- Access to more than 225 books, and additional books are in production
• Web of Science
• Wiley Open Access journals 
• WIReDSpace - Digital archive for University of  the Witwatersrand.
• World Bank Open Knowledge Repository – OKR 
• Worldcat- World Catalogue
• World Development Indicators

•  World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Health Observatory

• World Health Organisation (WHO) Institutional Repository for Information Sharing (IRIS) 
• World Health Organisation : South Africa - Includes SA statistics, outbreaks and crises, mortality and burden of disease, health service coverage, health systems, nutrition, and risk factors

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• None

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• None

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• None