Subject Guides: Public Management and Administration: Databases &amp; Journals

Public Administration Journals

Public Administration Journals_JCR
Source: Clarivate
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Source: Scopus

Specialised Journals

Africa's Public Service Delivery and Performance Review (APSDPR)
The journal is a peer reviewed journal aimed at the promotion and sharing of knowledge, skills and innovations in government and the wider Public Sector environment in South Africa and abroad.
African Journal of Governance and Development
The African Journal of Governance and Development is a multidisciplinary publication that seeks to bring academic researchers from beyond territorial and regional boundaries to share scientific knowledge focused at the intersection of governance and development. This biannual, peer reviewed journal aims at providing space for sharing and debating issues of social, political and economic development not only for academic consumption, but also for policy consideration. Launched in 2011, the African Journal of Governance and Development has grown from strength to strength.
African Journal of Public Affairs
Africanus
Published by the Department of Development Administration, University of South Africa.
Articles on development problems with special reference to the Third World and southern Africa as well as politics and policy concerning intergroup relations.
Politeia Journal
Unisa Press
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Open Access Journals

Open Access Important information
(from the Directory of Open Access Journals database) Browse by Subject and check Political & Social Science
General Public Administration OA Journals
Peer Reviewed OA Public Administration journals
Blind Peer reviewed OA Public Administration journals
Double Blind Peer reviewed OA Public Administration journals

Databases

African Digital Repository This link opens in a new window Is a central repository for records harvested from the institutional repositories of a number of Southern African and African institutions. Links to the full text are included.
Africa Portal Library This link opens in a new window The Africa Portal is an online knowledge resource for policy-related issues on Africa.
Sabinet African Journals This link opens in a new window Sabinet African Journals have been available online to clients with great success since 2001. The collection is proud to be the biggest of its kind, with an exclusive assortment of African and southern African journal titles, which includes more than 430 titles as well as more than 350 000 full text articles and the list keeps on growing.
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AOSIS Library This link opens in a new window Explore an extensive collection of open access books and journals. Search by title, keyword, or scholarly discipline to find the latest research in your field. All our open access content is free, and available to everyone upon publication.
Cambridge Core Journals This link opens in a new window Cambridge Journals publishes over 350 peer-reviewed journals, including journals published on behalf of over 100 learned societies, which form the latest in research and discovery across a range of topics.
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Current & Completed Research This link opens in a new window Contains current and completed research projects (in economics, science and humanities), and includes (the master’s and doctoral theses and dissertations) theses and dissertations from South African universities, Technikons, and Universities of Technology, as well as the research works from the government, non-government and private sectors. Some records include links to the full text. The database is maintained by the National Research Foundation (1919- ).
Directory of Open Access Books This link opens in a new window The Directory of Open Access Books is a service of OAPEN Foundation. The OAPEN Foundation is an international initiative dedicated to Open Access monograph publishing, based at the National Library in The Hague.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) This link opens in a new window DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
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EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window EBSCOhost databases and discovery technologies are the most-used, premium online information resources for tens of thousands of institutions worldwide, representing millions of end-users.
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Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window Emerald's Management collection features over 80,000 articles from over 200 titles. The collection continues to disseminate the latest thinking, from authors at 95 of the Financial Times Top 100 business schools and forms an essential part of the research library at most of these institutions. Our specialist collections in fields such as Education, Engineering, Library Studies and Marketing build on this strength; offering focused international research in a range of subject fields.
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Emerald Insight: eCases This link opens in a new window The Emerald eCase Collection provides students and faculty with unlimited access to a continuously developing digital library of more than 1,500 real- world case studies. The collection also features teaching material licensed from global case method advocates, creating opportunities for students to understand and apply business theory, analyse complex situations, and formulate solutions.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines. It is also a citation analysis tool and a gateway to materials on the web that are open access. Settings need to be set FIRST on a specific computer (usually only once) Go to Settings at the top left by first clicking on the hamburger menu and then the gear icon Then choose Library links Type: "university of pretoria" in the SEARCH box and click on SEARCH Tick ALL the boxes and SAVE
JStor This link opens in a new window
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NDLTD: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations This link opens in a new window The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs). We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) - over 1 000 journal issues, 2 900 working papers, 2 500 multi-lingual summaries, 6 200 e-book titles, 14 000 tables and graphs, 21 000 chapters and articles, and 390 complete databases with more than 4 billion data points.
Oxford Journals This link opens in a new window
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Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window Bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias, Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas.
Political Science Database‎ This link opens in a new window Political Science Database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals. It also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.
Project Gutenberg This link opens in a new window Project Gutenberg offers over 46,000 free ebooks: choose among free epub books, free kindle books, download them or read them online.
ProQuest This link opens in a new window ProQuest’s collections span six centuries, all disciplines and the diverse content types needed by researchers, providing the world’s largest collection of dissertations and theses; three centuries of newspapers; more than 450,000 academic ebooks; collections of important scholarly journals and other content researchers need such as data; and unique digital vaults of primary source materials . ProQuest’s renowned abstracting and indexing enables researchers to find sources in their area of study.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global This link opens in a new window ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Global 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.
SA ePublications This link opens in a new window Full-text access to more than 400 journals, with fully searchable articles in PDF format that focus on African content.
SACat This link opens in a new window Reflects the collection of libraries in Southern Africa and contains bibliographic information referring to books, journals, audiovisual items technical reports, electronic resources and other information material.
SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window SAGE is the world’s largest independent academic publisher and is committed to global dissemination of research. SAGE’s mission is founded in the belief that education is intrinsically valuable, and the dissemination of useable knowledge is a key foundation in building a healthy society.
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SAGE Knowledge This link opens in a new window SAGE Knowledge is the ultimate social sciences digital library for students, researchers, and faculty. Hosting more than 4,400 titles, it includes an expansive range of SAGE eBook and eReference content, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, and more.
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window SAGE Research Methods is a research methods tool created to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects. SAGE Research Methods links over 175,000 pages of SAGE’s renowned book, journal and reference content with truly advanced search and discovery tools.
ScienceDirect This link opens in a new window ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering journal articles and book chapters from nearly 2,500 journals and more than 30,000 books.
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.
SpringerLink This link opens in a new window SpringerLink is the premier electronic data source from Springer for researchers in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, humanities, social sciences and economics.
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Taylor & Francis (Journals) This link opens in a new window Taylor & Francis Group publishes quality peer-reviewed journals under the Routledge and Taylor & Francis imprints.
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Web of Science (All Databases) This link opens in a new window Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
Web of Science Core Collection This link opens in a new window Access the world’s leading scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities and examine proceedings of international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions.
Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) This link opens in a new window The World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.

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