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Below is a list of e-book databases which will provide access to full text e-books. Please note that not all books can be downloaded and stored on your device.
Over 80,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks available as open access.
Full text ebook series published by Elsevier.
Academic peer-reviewed ebooks, ejournals, reference works and book series published by Springer Nature in all subject areas.
Peer-reviewed academic ebooks published by Taylor & Francis in humanities, social sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, health sciences.
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.
Full text e-books from all major publishers covering subjects such as business, education, science, management, law, social sciences, health, economics and others.
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A list of databases which can be consulted to discover authoritative information on a topic
Comprehensive encyclopedia in management covering digital technologies; ethics and governance-related issues; innovation; emerging markets; organizational networks; and new avenues of sustainable business growth
Oxford Scholarship Online offers access to thousands of academic works from the celebrated scholarly list of Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.
Books, handbooks, reference sources, business cases, in the social sciences.
The following are links to selected eJournals covering various aspects of the topic and related fields. You will consult these titles as you would consult a print journal.
Below is a list of subject specific databases relevant to waste management. These online databases will enable you to perform searches using specific keywords or subject terms, thus providing you with abstracted and full text articles on your particular topic.
This is a multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Access to leading research from 200+ full text journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
Provides full-text online access to electronic journals published by Cambridge University Press. Includes access to archives to first issue of journals.
A unique and extensive index of diverse open access scholarly peer-reviewed journals from around the world. Includes South African and African journals.
This is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1886. It provides links to full-text articles in all fields of economics, including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and much more.
Environment Complete offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy sources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more. This database contains more than 1,957,000 records from more than 1,700 domestic and international titles going back to the 1940s.
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.
Quality, peer-reviewed academic journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
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.
Academic, peer-reviewed journals published by Sage.
Comprehensive business library databases containing millions of full-text items across scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, market research reports, case studies, company reports, dissertations, books, videos and more. Includes J.P.Morgan Research reports, Hoovers and Entrepreneurship database, Covers business, management, accounting, economics, from all countries.
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.
Full text books and journals published by Elsevier.
Academic peer-reviewed ebooks, ejournals, reference works and book series published by Springer Nature in all subject areas.
Online journals, ebooks and major reference works published by Wiley, a leading academic publisher in all areas of sciences, humanities and the social sciences.
Below are hyperlinks to predetermined searches. Once opened, a list of articles will appear containing keywords covering the theme.Not all the articles may be relevant. Select those articles which you think are applicable to your approach to the topic. Select the pdf option for downloading.
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Full text theses and dissertations published by Unisa authors 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.
Trove holds a comprehensive collections from Australian libraries, universities, museums, galleries and archives. It is a single point of entry to a treasure trove of artefacts, curiosities and stories from Australia’s cultural, community and research institutions.
Books, journals, newspapers, government reports, images published in Canada available from the Library and Archives Canada.
OpenDissertations is an open-access database built to assist researchers in locating both historic and contemporary dissertations and theses. Created with the generous support of the H.W. Wilson Foundation and the Congregational Library & Archives in Boston, it incorporates EBSCO’s previously released American Doctoral Dissertations, and features additional dissertation metadata contributed by select colleges and universities from around the world. Providing researchers with citations to graduate research across a span of time, from the early 20th century to the present, this database will continue to grow through regular updates and new partnerships with graduate degree-granting institutions.