Print books can be found using the Unisa Discovery Tool Summon and limiting your search to library catalog or book/ebook.
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.
Rich scholarly resource of fulltext e-books published by Brill Publishers covering the subject areas of humanities, international law and biology.
Over 80,000 academic peer-reviewed ebooks available as open access.
Full text ebooks available on the EBSCOHost platform.
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)..
All reports and research publications published by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development.
A list of databases which can be consulted to discover authoritative information on a topic
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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 . 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.
GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content.
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.
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.
Quality, peer-reviewed academic journals published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge.
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.
Waters & Oceans Worldwide combines databases on all facets of international water research. With excellent world coverage, this database includes research ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment. With over 1,854,600 citations and abstracts dating back to the 1970s, this resource is essential for those dealing with all aspects of water and water-related subjects.
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.