Subject Guides: Education: Postgraduate studies: UP Library Home

General Information

**Information Specialists and Hours**
Weekdays: 7:30- 16:00 Friday 22 December not open for students	Rebecca Bapela Information Specialist for Science Mathematics & Technology Education and Humanities Education Tel: +27 12 420 5565 Email: rebecca.bapela@up.ac.za Groenkloof Campus, Media building office 3-7
Research Commons: Weekdays 7:30-16:00, Friday 22 December not open for students	Sonja Delport Information Specialist for Early Childhood Education and Education Management and Policy Studies Tel: +27 12 420 5545 Email: sonja.delport@up.ac.za Groenkloof Campus, Media building office 3-
For general inquiries phone 012 420 5536 Research Commons 012 420 5259	Liesl Stieger Information Specialist for Educational Psychology and the Coordinator of the Research Commons Tel: +27 12 420 5559/5259 Email: liesl.stieger@up.ac.za Groenkloof Campus, Media building office 2-34

The Library Webpage

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WIFI

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TuksPrint

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Databases Important for Education

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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JStor This link opens in a new window
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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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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.
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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University of Pretoria WorldCat Local This link opens in a new window University of Pretoria Libraries is dedicated to offering you access to the widest possible range of resources. You are now able to search our collection and the collections of many other libraries worldwide using WorldCat, the world's largest network of library-based content and services.

GoogleScholar & Google Scholar library settings

Tips for Searching Google Scholar

Ensure that your Google Scholar library settings is correct this will enable you to get access to our paid content (fulltext)
Place one concept consisting of two words in “” e.g. “research methodology”
Use the advanced search option to limit your search

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