Public Administration and Management: Subject-specific databases to search for literature on your topic

Collection of more than 560 full-text online African journals from various disciplines. Includes business, finance, education, law, medicine, health, religion, social sciences. Also OA African Journals Archive.

Cross-database searching of all the Sabinet Discover databases using the new Sabinet Discover platform.

Cross-searching of all the available EBSCOhost databases

Cross-searching of all ProQuest databases.

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.

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.

Full text books and journals published by Elsevier.

Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.

Online journals, ebooks and major reference works published by Wiley, a leading academic publisher.

Academic peer-reviewed ebooks, ejournals, reference works and book series published by Springer Nature.

Full text journals published by Unisa Press.

A unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world.

This comprehensive news collection covers newspapers at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos.

A news clipping services collection comprising over 4,5 million articles. With an average of 2500 new articles added weekly, SA Media (News Clippings) is a comprehensive research tool that allows you to search local mainstream publications.

Full text e-books from all major publishers covering subjects such as business, education, science, management, law, social sciences, health, economics and others.

Full text ebooks available on the EBSCOHost platform.

Full text access to all Cambridge University Press books including ebooks from partner publishers such as Wits University Press, Facet Publishing, Unisa Press, etc.

Collection of handbooks covering multiple subject areas. Each handbook contains in-depth, high-level articles by selected leading scholars and offers thorough introductions to topics and critical surveys of the current state of scholarship.

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Peer-reviewed academic ebooks published by Taylor & Francis in humanities, social sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, health sciences.

Over 80,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks available as open access.

Index of full-text books.

A database that provides information by academics for an academic audience. The main types of sources are primary sources, articles, journals, periodicals, and even a dictionary. Delivers fast and easy access to information with global perspectives users will not find elsewhere. Information is updated daily from news outlets such as New York Times, and the BBC.

Language resources for English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Note: New platform launch on 18 July 2023.
The OED is the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of 600,000 words— past and present—from across the English-speaking world.

Afrikaans language dictionary providing definitions, synonyms, word origins of Afrikaans.

Full text theses and dissertations in the Unisa Institutional Repository.

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.

Bill Tracker keeps you abreast of the updated profile, history and status of every Bill tabled before Parliament. It includes draft bills and is updated daily. Also provides a glossary of Parliamentary terms used in Government.

Offers access to Bargaining Council Agreements for all registered SA Bargaining Councils; labour judgements from Courts with links to full text
articles. Also A -Z lists with information about trade unions, federations and employers org.

Offers full text legal information including bill tracking, national and provincial gazettes, national & provincial acts, amendment acts with rules, regulations and forms also available

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Updates on new legislation or amendments to existing acts in full text. Receive weekly newsletters, which include new amendments, principal acts, published and drafts, for comment where changes are clearly marked, making it easy to spot the latest amendments.