Struggling to find academic material for your assignment, research proposal, or thesis?The Library can help with a literature search—a systematic and comprehensive search for published academic resources on your topic.
How to request a literature search:
Complete our online form or use the Unisa Student App (available on the Android Play Store and iStore). In the app, go to Library and select Literature Search Form.
Current awareness is the term used to describe staying informed by keeping up to date with the latest publications, research and news in your field.
The perspective of current awareness is the present and the forthcoming, as opposed to the retrospective.
Current awareness ranges from looking for information on specific topics on a regular basis (and this usually involves the assistance of your Personal Librarian to help you set up a search profile matched to your research interests) to embracing a wider, more general, and cross-disciplinary view that brings an element of serendipity into your search for the latest information.
Informally, researchers remain alert in all contexts for useful information and insights that will inform their daily practice, their research, and spark off innovative and creative ideas for new avenues of research.
DKMS Africa is a non-profit organisation dedicated to fighting blood cancer and blood disorders by giving patients a second chance at life. With a mission rooted in hope and driven by science, we work to build an ethnically diverse registry of blood stem cell donors, increase public awareness, and support patients throughout their treatment journey. Our commitment spans across continents and communities because every patient deserves a match, and every match starts with a potential lifesaver.
The Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain high-quality, independent evidence to inform health-care decision-making. The databases are:
Access to Cochrane for residents of South Africa is available with funding from the SA Medical Research Council.
The following sites on Unisa Open contains useful information for Unisa staff.
The year is marked with many special days, weeks, and months dedicated and devoted to raising awareness about important issues.
This monthly post, compiled by the Information Search Librarians Team, will note special dates and themes, and draw your attention to possibly interesting cross-disciplinary topical references intended to inform and to inspire ideas for research.
International days and weeks are occasions to educate the public on issues of concern, to mobilize political will and resources to address global problems, and to celebrate and reinforce achievements of humanity. The existence of international days predates the establishment of the United Nations, but the UN has embraced them as a powerful advocacy tool. We also mark other UN observances.
In July, South Africa celebrates former President Nelson Mandela's birthday. 18 July has been declared Nelson Mandela International Day.. This gives everyone the opportunity to heed the call to action for people to recognise their individual power to make an imprint and change the world around them.
#MandelaDay2025 #ItIsInYourHands
July marks the commemoration of Moral Regeneration Month, an initiative of the Moral Regeneration Movement (MRM), which is aimed at encouraging people to recommit to efforts of building communities grounded on positive values and rededicate to building a caring society in pursuit of creating lasting peace and prosperity in the country.
The commemoration takes place specifically in July to:
Coincide with the celebration of Mandela Day on 18 July and the birthday month of former President Nelson Mandela, an icon who is considered to be the main leader of the formation of the Moral Regeneration Movement, and Mark the adoption of the Charter for Positive Values on 28 July 2008.
World Hepatitis Day is marked to increase the awareness and understanding of viral hepatitis and the diseases that it causes. It provides an opportunity to focus on specific actions such as:
Hepatitis viruses A, B, C, D and E can cause acute and chronic infection and inflammation of the liver leading to cirrhosis and liver cancer. These viruses constitute a major global health risk.
Leukaemia is a group of bone marrow diseases involving an uncontrolled increase in white blood cells (leukocytes). There is around a 30% chance of a sibling being a bone marrow match, meaning that there is a 70% chance that someone will need a transplant from a non-related donor. Each year, 35 people in every million learn that they have leukaemia of whom five will be children.
As opposed to a few different blood types, there are millions of different types of cell tissue. The success of a patient’s transplant depends on finding a match, otherwise their body will reject it.
DKMS Africa was formed in 1999 to create awareness for the need of donors. It was formed by parents whose children had contracted leukaemia, and in some cases had lost their battle against it.
The university has identified ten (10) catalytic niches that will assist the institution in catalysing research, innovation and engaged scholarship These are as follows:
Click on the links below for information on: Energy
1. General Energy Mix in South Africa
("energy mix" OR "energy sector") AND "South Africa"
2. Energy Generation, Distribution, and Services
("energy generation" OR "electricity distribution" OR "energy services") AND "South Africa"
3. Skills and Knowledge in the Energy Sector
("energy sector" AND ("skills development" OR "knowledge requirements")) AND "South Africa"
4. Power Shortages and Energy Security
5. Renewable Energy (Solar and Wind)
("renewable energy" OR "solar energy" OR "wind energy") AND "South Africa"
6. University Role in Sustainable Energy
HistoriaVol. 54, No. 2, pp 21-3601 November 2009
It is now a commonplace that Nelson Mandela - Madiba - has become the most venerated, iconic political figure of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Accolades and awards have been heaped upon him. In the words of Kofi Annan, the former UN Secretary-General, "To this day, Madiba remains probably the single most admired, most respected international figure in the entire world". "In these times of global warfare and strife," remarks Desmond Tutu, "... Nelson Mandela stands out as a global icon for peace, love, reconciliation and magnanimity." In the international media, Mandela has been variously described as the only living saint, and as "a moral colossus" towering over the world. Nadine Gordimer views Gandhi and Mandela as "the two indisputably magnificent great people of the last millennium."
From hepatitis A to E: A critical review of viral hepatitis.
Castaneda D, Gonzalez AJ, Alomari M, Tandon K, Zervos XB.World J Gastroenterol. 2021 Apr 28;27(16):1691-1715. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v27.i16.1691.PMID: 33967551 Free PMC article. Review.
Hence, a comprehensive understanding of hepatitis A, B, C, D and E is required by primary care physicians and gastroenterologists to provide care to these patients. ...
Terrault NA, Levy MT, Cheung KW, Jourdain G.Nat Rev Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2021 Feb;18(2):117-130. doi: 10.1038/s41575-020-00361-w. Epub 2020 Oct 12.PMID: 33046891 Review.
The management of viral hepatitis in the setting of pregnancy requires special consideration. There are five liver-specific viruses (hepatitis A, B, C, D, E), each with unique epidemiology, tendency to chronicity, risk of liver complications and response to a …
Migueres M, Lhomme S, Izopet J.Viruses. 2021 Sep 22;13(10):1900. doi: 10.3390/v13101900.PMID: 34696330 Free PMC article. Review.
The hepatitis A virus (HAV) is a leading cause of acute viral hepatitis worldwide. It is transmitted mainly by direct contact with patients who have been infected or by ingesting contaminated water or food. ...Most of these outbreaks occur among high-risk gro …
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