Databases A-Z
100 electronic resources, including 41 open access resources. Click a letter to see the databases that start with it.
Subscribed databases work on the UNESWA campus network (access is by IP address, so no login is needed). Off-campus access is currently being implemented.
Open Access and Research4Life resources can be used both on and off campus. Research4Life needs a login – see how to get one.
JoVE – Journal of Visualized Experiments
Peer-reviewed video journal and science education videos that show experiments and laboratory techniques step by step. UNESWA has access to the Biomedical & Clinical Medicine and the Chemistry, Physics & Engineering collections.
Subjects: Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Chemistry; Physics; Engineering.
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Multidisciplinary full-text database of peer-reviewed journals, magazines and reports across virtually every academic discipline.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.Full-text journals and magazines on the history, culture, politics, health, education and research of the African continent, with a Sub-Saharan focus.
Subjects: African Studies; History; Politics; Health; Education; Business; Science and Technology.
A joint WHO initiative indexing African health and biomedical literature, improving access to research published in Africa.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Public Health (African focus).210 out-of-print titles from the African Writers Series that you can view, download and print.
Subjects: African Literature.Digital library collection for food and agriculture.
Subjects: Agriculture; Food Science; Life Sciences.
Digitised primary sources on liberation struggles in Southern Africa, originally the Aluka collection, now hosted on JSTOR.
Subjects: African History; Politics; Humanities.High-impact physics journals including the Physical Review series and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Subjects: Physics.
An independent publishing platform offering free access to peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journals.
Subjects: Theology and Religion; Education; Health Sciences; Human and Social Sciences; Natural Sciences; Law.
Peer-reviewed, open access scholarly monographs and edited collections published by AOSIS.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, with a focus on Theology, Education, Health Sciences and Social Sciences.Full-text STEM database covering engineering, computing, chemistry, physics, energy, robotics and other applied sciences.
Subjects: Engineering; Computer Science; Chemistry; Physics; Energy; Applied Sciences.B
Journals in the biological, ecological and environmental sciences.
Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Environmental Sciences.More than 70 medical and allied health titles from BMJ.
Subjects: Medicine; Allied Health; Public Health.Peer-reviewed business journals plus company, industry and market information.
Subjects: Accounting; Finance; Management; Marketing; Economics.C
The CAB Abstracts index with full text for the applied life sciences.
Subjects: Agriculture; Environment; Veterinary Science; Food Science; Nutrition; Plant Sciences.CABI databases and the CABI Compendium of species, pests and diseases, with maps, images and decision-support tools.
Subjects: Agriculture; Environment; Plant and Animal Health.Peer-reviewed journals and books from Cambridge University Press.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.Journals from Canada's largest publisher of international scientific journals (formerly NRC Research Press).
Subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Earth Sciences; Physics; Engineering.The definitive full-text resource for nursing and allied health, with evidence-based care sheets, quick lessons and CE modules.
Subjects: Nursing; Allied Health; Health Sciences.
High-quality, independent evidence, including Cochrane systematic reviews, to inform healthcare decision-making.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Evidence-Based Practice; Public Health.The most complete full-text research database for communication studies.
Subjects: Communication; Media Studies; Journalism; Linguistics; Rhetoric; Speech-Language Pathology.
The digital repository of Cape Peninsula University of Technology, providing open access to postgraduate theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.D
A community-curated directory of high-quality, peer-reviewed open access journals.
Subjects: Agriculture; Biology and Life Sciences; Business and Economics; Chemistry; Earth and Environmental Sciences; Engineering and Technology; Health Sciences; Humanities; Law; Mathematics and Statistics; Physics and Astronomy; Social Sciences.
The institutional repository of the Durban University of Technology, showcasing research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.Evidence-based point-of-care tool: skills checklists, diseases and conditions, tests and labs, care interventions and drug guides.
Subjects: Nursing; Allied Health; Clinical Practice.E
Large multidisciplinary collection of academic e-books from leading university and scholarly presses.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.E-books for business students and researchers.
Subjects: Management; Finance; Marketing; Economics; Entrepreneurship.E-books for education studies and teacher training.
Subjects: Education; Curriculum; Educational Psychology; Education Policy.Core engineering e-books.
Subjects: Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Chemical and Computer Engineering.Clinical and biomedical e-books.
Subjects: Medicine; Biomedical Sciences; Health Sciences.E-books on nursing practice and education.
Subjects: Nursing; Allied Health.Open EBSCOhost and choose any combination of the Library's EBSCO databases to search together.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.The largest full-text education database, covering all levels from early childhood to higher education, plus conference papers and teaching videos.
Subjects: Education; Educational Technology; Literacy; Special Education; Higher Education.
Journals and books from Emerald Publishing.
Subjects: Management; Finance; Library Studies; Education; Engineering.Open access and free articles from Emerald Publishing.
Subjects: Business and Management, Economics, Education, Engineering, Health Sciences, Human Resource Management, Library and Information Science, Marketing, Communication and Mass Media.Full-text engineering journals, trade publications, books and conference papers.
Subjects: Biomedical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical, Environmental and Software Engineering.Journals, reference books, case studies, company profiles and Harvard faculty seminar videos.
Subjects: Entrepreneurship; Small Business; Management; Marketing.Full text and indexing for journals, books and monographs across environmental disciplines.
Subjects: Agriculture; Ecosystem Ecology; Energy; Renewable Resources; Pollution; Environmental Policy.The key index of education literature, with links to hundreds of thousands of free full-text documents.
Subjects: Education.
The national bibliography of Eswatini, compiled and published by UNESWA Library.
Subjects: Eswatini; Multidisciplinary.F
Peer-reviewed open access journals from Frontiers.
Subjects: Psychology; Medicine; Public Health; Dentistry; Nursing; Veterinary Science; Life Sciences; Genetics; Immunology; Microbiology; Oncology; Pharmacology; Bioengineering and Biotechnology; Chemistry; Materials Science; Physics; Mathematics; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Environmental Science.Food Science and Technology Abstracts with full text.
Subjects: Food Science; Food Safety; Nutrition; Beverages; Food Technology.G
Worldwide access to biomedical and public health literature produced by and within low- and middle-income countries.
Subjects: Health Sciences; Medicine; Public Health.H
Consumer health information.
Subjects: Nutrition; Fitness; Medical Sciences; Drugs and Alcohol; Child Care.Full-text scholarly journals for nursing and allied health, with drug guide content.
Subjects: Nursing; Allied Health; Medical Sciences.One of the world's largest collections of biomedical and health literature.
Subjects: Medicine; Health Sciences; Public Health.Full-text journals across the humanities.
Subjects: History; Literature; Philosophy; Religion; Arts; Languages; Cultural Studies.I
E-book collections on IEEE Xplore: Wiley AI, De Gruyter AI, and Wiley Data & Cybersecurity.
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Data Science; Cybersecurity.IEEE and IET journals, magazines, conference proceedings and standards, with IEEE's AI-assisted research tools.
Subjects: Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Computer Science; Telecommunications; Artificial Intelligence.Journals, books and conference content from the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Subjects: Engineering; Technology.Physics journals published by the Institute of Physics.
Subjects: Physics; Materials Science.J
Peer-reviewed video journal and science education videos that show experiments and laboratory techniques step by step. UNESWA has access to the Biomedical & Clinical Medicine and the Chemistry, Physics & Engineering collections.
Subjects: Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Medicine; Chemistry; Physics; Engineering.Academic journals and books, with an AI research tool. Sign in to a free JSTOR account to use the AI research tool.
Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; Field Sciences.K
The institutional repository of the University of the Free State, providing open access to research output and postgraduate theses.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.L
Scholarly law journals, book reviews and case citations.
Subjects: Law; Criminal Justice; International Law; Labour Law; Medical Law; Commercial Law.The largest full-text database for library and information science studies.
Subjects: Librarianship; Cataloguing; Information Management; Bibliometrics; Information Retrieval.M
Mary Ann Liebert journals, now hosted on the Sage Journals platform.
Subjects: Biotechnology; Biomedical Research; Clinical Medicine; Public Health.General-interest magazines, reference books, primary source documents, photos, maps and Associated Press videos.
Subjects: General Interest; Multidisciplinary.Companion reference e-books to MasterFILE Complete.
Subjects: General Reference; Multidisciplinary.
A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, providing free access to peer-reviewed journal articles.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, including Chemistry, Engineering, Medicine, Life Sciences, Environmental Science and Social Sciences.Full text for thousands of biomedical and health journals indexed in MEDLINE, searchable with MeSH headings.
Subjects: Medicine; Biomedicine; Nursing; Public Health; Health Policy.N
A free full-text archive of books and documents in life sciences and healthcare, from the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information.
Subjects: Biomedical Sciences; Life Sciences; Health Sciences; Genetics; Molecular Biology.One of the world's leading journals of medicine.
Subjects: Medicine; Health Sciences.Full-text newspapers, newswires and TV and radio news transcripts from around the world.
Subjects: News; Current Affairs.O
A library of peer-reviewed open access academic books.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.Information resources on the environment.
Subjects: Environment; Ecology; Geography; Energy.
Free access to OECD reports, working papers, statistics and analysis on economic, social and environmental policy issues.
Subjects: Economics; Public Policy; Education; Health; Governance; Environment; International Development.
Find open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
Peer-reviewed academic books, free to read online.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
A freely available database of theses and dissertations, developed by EBSCO in partnership with participating institutions and BiblioLabs.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
The institutional repository of the University of Cape Town, providing open access to research articles, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
Oxford University Press journals.
Subjects: Humanities; Social Sciences; Law; Science; Medicine.Open access and free content from Oxford University Press.
Subjects: Arts, Science, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Social Sciences.P
The Physiotherapy Evidence Database: systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and guidelines for evidence-based physiotherapy.
Subjects: Physiotherapy; Rehabilitation; Health Sciences.
Open access journals from the Public Library of Science.
Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Medicine and Health Sciences; Public Health; Global Health; Climate and Environmental Science; Digital Health; Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Neuroscience; Ecology and Conservation; Epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Mental Health; Health Policy.Full-text journals on emotional and behavioural characteristics and mental processes.
Subjects: Psychology; Psychiatry; Behavioural Sciences.
A free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Subjects: Nursing; Dentistry; Veterinary Medicine; Public Health; Epidemiology; Global Health; Biomedical Sciences; Clinical Research; Pharmacology; Toxicology; Genetics and Genomics; Molecular Biology; Cell Biology; Microbiology; Immunology; Neuroscience; Oncology; Cardiology; Infectious Diseases; Mental Health; Health Policy.R
One login for all Research4Life collections (Hinari, AGORA, ARDI, GOALI and OARE): journals, books and databases for low- and middle-income countries.
Subjects: Health; Agriculture; Environment; Science and Technology; Law and Social Sciences.Journals of the Royal Society of London.
Subjects: Biological Sciences; Physical Sciences; Mathematics.S
Open access Southern African and African scholarly journals on the Sabinet platform.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, with a Southern African focus.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
Sabinet's reference platform for Southern African information.
Subjects: Law; Government; Southern African Studies.
Open access articles from Sage journals.
Subjects: Biological and Life Sciences, Business and Management, Education, Engineering, Ethnic and Multicultural Studies, Geography, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Language and Literature, Law, Marketing, Communication and Mass Media, Political Studies, Psychology, Religious Studies, Social Sciences.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
Popular science magazines, journals, reference books, biographies of scientists, experiments and videos.
Subjects: Biology; Chemistry; Physics; Earth Sciences; Environmental Science; Computer Science.Companion reference e-books to Science Reference Ultimate.
Subjects: Science; Technology; Engineering; Mathematics.
Open access journal articles and e-books from Elsevier.
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Sciences, Biological and Life Sciences, Computing and IT, Engineering, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Physical Sciences and Physics.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
Full-text sociology journals and videos.
Subjects: Sociology; Gender Studies; Family; Demographics; Political Sociology; Religion; Anthropology.Journals, proceedings and e-books from SPIE.
Subjects: Optics; Photonics.
Peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters.
Subjects: Science; Medicine; Technology.Open access e-books from Springer.
Subjects: Computing, Information Technology, Social Science, Health Science, Science.
The institutional repository of Stellenbosch University, providing open access to research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.T
Open access articles from Taylor & Francis journals.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
Open access and free e-books from Taylor & Francis.
Subjects: Accounting and Finance, Business and Management, Computing and IT, Economics, Education, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, Human Sciences, Political Studies, Social Sciences.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
Scientific and technological literature on textile production and processing.
Subjects: Textile Science; Fibres and Yarns; Chemicals and Dyes; Apparel Industry.U
The institutional repository of the University of Johannesburg, providing open access to research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
A landmark UNESCO publication presenting Africa's history from an African perspective, freely available online in full text.
Subjects: African History; Humanities; Social Sciences.
The institutional repository of the University of South Africa, providing open access to research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
The institutional repository of the University of Pretoria, providing open access to research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.W
The World Health Organization's institutional repository, providing open access to WHO publications, reports and technical documents.
Subjects: Public Health; Global Health; Medicine; Health Policy.Open access journal articles and books from Wiley.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.UNESWA does not subscribe to this resource. Only the open access content is available to you: tick the "Open Access" filter (or check the open access option) when you search.
The institutional repository of the University of the Witwatersrand, providing open access to research output, theses and dissertations.
Subjects: Multidisciplinary.
Free access to World Bank publications.
Subjects: Development Economics, Public Policy, Education, Health, Agriculture, Governance, Finance and International Development.No databases match your search. Try a different term or view all databases.
Research4Life login
Research4Life collections (Hinari, AGORA, ARDI, GOALI and OARE) need a UNESWA Research4Life username and password. Once you have them, you can use Research4Life both on and off campus.
To get the login credentials, visit the Library or email svtsabedze@uneswa.ac.sz.