Subject Guides: Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development: Search for Articles

Databases

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
CABI: CAB Abstracts® and Global Health® This link opens in a new window
Covering issues in agriculture, forestry, animal and crop husbandry, animal and plant breeding, plant protection, genetics, forestry engineering,economics, veterinary medicine, human nutrition, and rural development
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.
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.
Agriculture Science Database This link opens in a new window
This database contains the leading agricultural journals published in North America. ProQuest Agriculture Journals offers the complete text as well as complete images from such journals as Agricultural Research, Forest Products Journal, Journal of Animal Science, Journal of Soil and Water Conservation and Plant Physiology.
South African SDG Hub This link opens in a new window
The South African SDG Hub is a metaplatform that aggregates the best and most relevant research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from South African and selected non-South African universities.

Open Access Journals

African Journal of Agricultural Research

Journal of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development

Electronic Journals (Agriculture & Agribusiness)

Use e-journals when you have the full journal citation of the article you want. Type in the journal title and go to the desired full-text access platform. Choose the year, then the volume and issue number. Scroll down to find your article, click on the pdf version and download the article or send it to your e-mail address.

eJournal Access

Research Articles (Agricultural Economics, Extension & Rural Development)

Access articles

Interlending

This service enables sharing of resources by libraries. This facility is used to request ONLY those items that are not available in our libraries. Our libraries also SUPPLY resources requested by other libraries. This services is offered at both national and international levels.