LibGuides: Sustainability in Project Management: Searching for Literature: Using the Subject Specific Databases

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Below is a selection of library resources links that will contain research material on sustainability and project management. Depending on your topic you will find more results in some while others will be less relevant. You will be able to narrow down the most relevant databases as you conduct searches.

How to find information:

Click on one of the links listed below. The general databases are listed under the heading 'Subject Databases' and the other databases are listed according to specific types, e.g. e-books
Type in the relevant keyword(s) in the search box and click on the search button
A list of publications will display and many will have full-text articles available
Limit your search by adding more keywords, adding a date range or, limiting the results to scholarly or peer-reviewed
Remember to make use of more than one database to ensure that you do a comprehensive literature review.

If you do not know how to search please go through this Library Guide: Formulate an Effective Search Strategy: Analyse your topic and identify your keywords

Summon - The Unisa Library Discovery Tool

The Unisa Library contains a wealth of resources that can be used to find information to support research. The resources include, books, articles, theses and dissertations, reference works and e-newspapers.

The library subscribes to a discovery tool called Summon. It enables you to improve your discovery of academic resources by allowing you to search all our resources using one friendly interface.

Video on using Summon

Subject Databases

ScienceDirect (all journal and book titles) This link opens in a new window
Full text books and journals published by Elsevier.
Sage Journals Online (Including Archive 1879 onwards) This link opens in a new window
Academic, peer-reviewed journals published by Sage.
SpringerLink: eJournals, eBooks and eReference This link opens in a new window
Academic peer-reviewed ebooks, ejournals, reference works and book series published by Springer Nature in all subject areas.
Wiley Online Library: eJournals, eBooks and eReference This link opens in a new window
Online journals, ebooks and major reference works published by Wiley, a leading academic publisher in all areas of sciences, humanities and the social sciences.
Taylor and Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
Quality, peer-reviewed academic journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
Emerald Insight: Journals, Books and Case Studies This link opens in a new window
Contains 35,000 articles from over 200 management journals, complete with full text archives back to volume 1 of each title. Covers the major management disciplines: strategy, leadership, information management, marketing & human resource management. Also includes full text ebooks and management case studies.
EBSCOhost (All databases) This link opens in a new window
Cross-searching of all the available EBSCOhost databases
Sabinet African Journals This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of more than 600 full-text online African journals from various disciplines. Includes business, finance, education, law, medicine, health, religion, science, technology, and social sciences. Also OA African Journals Archive.
Directory of Open Access Journals This link opens in a new window
A unique and extensive index of diverse open access scholarly peer-reviewed journals from around the world. Includes South African and African journals.
Cambridge Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by Cambridge University Press. Includes access to archives to first issue of journals.
IEEE Xplore This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of journals, letters, magazines, conference proceedings, IEEE technical papers, IEEE standards, ebooks, and educational courses on topics such as electrical engineering, computing, biotechnology, telecommunications, power and energy, and dozens of other technologies including 5G, cybersecurity, big data, and smart grids.

Citation Databases

Scopus This link opens in a new window
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivering a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities, Scopus features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research.
Web of Science Core Collection (all citation indexes) This link opens in a new window
Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

e-Reference Sources

Wiley Encyclopedia of Management, 3rd ed. 2014 This link opens in a new window
Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science This link opens in a new window
A multi-volume encyclopedia devoted to advancing the areas of operations research and management science.
Sage Knowledge: all Sage ebooks, reference and handbooks titles This link opens in a new window
Books, handbooks, reference sources, business cases, in the social sciences.

Theses and Dissertations

UnisaETD: electronic theses and dissertations This link opens in a new window
Full text theses and dissertations published by Unisa authors in the Unisa Institutional Repository.
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: Global This link opens in a new window
PQDT is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, offering millions of works from thousands of universities. Each year hundreds of thousands of works are added. Full-text coverage spans from 1743 to the present, with citation coverage dating back to 1637.

Directory of Open Access Theses and Dissertations

Newspapers

PressReader: online newspapers of the world This link opens in a new window
SA Media (News Clippings) This link opens in a new window
A news clipping services collection comprising over 4,5 million articles. Covers mainstream publications in South Africa from 1977 to present day. Adds approximately 2500 news articles weekly, 3-6 weeks after the publication date.

Videos and Talks

HS Talks Business and Management Collection This link opens in a new window
HSTalks provides access to world class lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia, in one online resource - accessible wherever, whenever and as often as is wanted. Our subscribers include a wide range of universities, business schools and colleges throughout the world

e-Book Databases

Please note than not all e-books can be downloaded. Some e-books need to be read online.

e-Books@ Unisa Library LibGuide

IGI-Global E-Books This link opens in a new window
Cambridge eBooks This link opens in a new window
Full text access to all Cambridge University Press books including ebooks from partner publishers such as Wits University Press, Facet Publishing, Unisa Press, etc.
ProQuest EBook Central This link opens in a new window
Full text e-books from all major publishers covering subjects such as business, education, science, management, law, social sciences, health, economics and others.
eBook Collection on EBSCOHost This link opens in a new window
Full text ebooks available on the EBSCOHost platform.
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window
Over 80,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks available as open access.
Emerald Business, Management and Economics Ebook Series Collection This link opens in a new window
O'Reilly e-Books This link opens in a new window
You'll need to sign in using your Unisa email account. Once you sign in, you'll have immediate access to the content, and you'll shortly receive an e-mail from Safari prompting you to set up a password and complete your account creation (recommended)..
Taylor and Francis eBooks This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed academic ebooks published by Taylor & Francis in humanities, social sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, health sciences.
Wiley Online eBooks This link opens in a new window
eBooks published by Wiley, a leading academic publisher in the subject areas: agriculture, art, business, economics, chemistry, computer science, environmental sciences, humanities, law, criminology, psychology, social & behavioral sciences, veterinary sciences.

Print Books

The Unisa Library has a huge collection of book titles on Project Management.

Project Management

Project Management Body of Knowledge

Open Educational Resources

Project Management

e-Publications Finder

The e-publications finder can be used when you know the name of a publication. Enter the name of the journal, e-book etc in the Title begins with search box and then click on Search.

The results will bring out the journal and in which databases it is held. This allows you to search the journal for more articles by using the relevant database. Otherwise just insert the the title of the article within the search within this publication search box to go directly to the article.

E-Publication Finder