Education: Databases

EBSCOhost consist of several databases, covering management information, newspaper clips, business information, medical, education and engineering articles.

The VUT subscribes as from 2018 to the Wiley Core Collection, which hosts the world’s broadest and deepest multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities. It delivers seamless integrated access to over 6 million articles from over 1340 journals. At the moment the VUT subscribes to 2 e-books (Bioelectronics – from theory to applications and Introductory Bioelectronics for Engineers), which can be access at the same place as the online journals.

ScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world’s science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information.

The ProQuest Ebook Central – platform combines ebook content from several other ProQuest ebook platforms, into a single interface. The content includes ebooks previously hosted on the ebrary EBL platforms for a total of nearly 145 000 ebooks. The content covers the full range of subjects from a variety of university presses, trade publishers, and popular presses. New content is added regularly. Remote Access (off campus)

JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution full text articles, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

Emerald/MCB primarily provides access to full-text managerial information, management reviews, etc. Abstracts available: international civil engineering abstracts, computer abstracts, international database, and computer communications and security abstracts.

Cambridge University Press advances learning, knowledge and research worldwide, and publishes over 300 peer-reviewed academic journals for the global market. Containing the latest research from a broad sweep of subject areas, Cambridge journals are accessible at the Vaal University online.

A retrospective digitisation project focusing on exclusively African Journals comprising an online collection of full text articles in the Sciences, Social Sciences and African affairs.