Subject Guides: Graduate School of Engineering and Technology Management: Databases

Key databases

ABI/INFORM Collection This link opens in a new window
Major source for academic journals, trade publications, market and industry research reports, company annual reports, dissertations, and working papers. Also contains country profiles and economic forecasts for most major economies.
Cambridge Core Journals This link opens in a new window
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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.
EI Engineering Village This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive interdisciplinary engineering database. 1969+
EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
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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.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
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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.

Database search tips

Combine search terms using Boolean Operators
AND, OR and NOT:

AND -combine two or more keywords/terms

OR -connector to retrieve information in which any one of your keywords/terms appear
NOT -exclude certain information from your results

Most databases allow one to limit a search by years e.g. 2010-2015. Put the years in appropriate field on the search screen

Key databases

Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
IEEE Xplore® Digital Library This link opens in a new window
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The IEEE Xplore digital library is a powerful resource for discovery and access to scientific and technical content published by the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and its publishing partners. IEEE Xplore provides Web access to more than 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
African Journals This link opens in a new window
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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.
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.
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.

How to search journal articles in databases

Select a database to search from e.g. SA ePublications
Type keywords/search terms in the provided search boxes
Click on Search
Then choose a relevant article title from the list
Click on full text of the article to view

Graduate School of Engineering and Technology Management: Databases

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How to search journal articles in databases