Subject Guides: Centre for Environmental Studies: Research Support

Support for posgraduate students and researchers

Where to publish
Here you will find all the relevant information to accredited journals, research tools, language editing, financial support etc.
Research Guide

Interlibrary Loans (ILL)
The primary purpose of interlibrary loans (ILL) is to support research and teaching at the University of Pretoria by obtaining documents not available in our library from other libraries and also to supply documents requested by other libraries.
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Documents are requested from Southern African libraries as well as international libraries. The ILL department supports the interlending policies of the South African Interlending Scheme (SAIS) of the National Library of South Africa and of the GAELIC Document Supply Group.

Open access electronic archive collecting, preserving and distributing digital materials created, owned and hosted by the University of Pretoria.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
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.

Scopus
Scopus is Elsevier's abstract and citation database launched in 2004. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from approximately 11,678 publishers, of which 34,346 are peer-reviewed journals in top-level subject fields:
Searching on Discovery
Searching on the Library Catalog

EndNote is software you download onto your computer that will allow you to:

Store your references and link them to your PDF files
Organize your references into Groups
Create bibliographies
Work with Microsoft Word to format your in-text citations and references
Allows you to switch between hundreds of reference styles, with the touch of a button

EndNote training: every first Monday of a month in Training Room 1, Level 3 (entrance level) of the Merensky II Library