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2 EASY STEPS TO RETRIEVE INFORMATION !!!

STEP 1 : Search for references on your specific topic by using a variety of databases.
 
Access Medicine
An online resource that provides all health professionals with access to more than 60 medical titles from the best minds in medicine, updated content, thousands of photos and illustrations, interactive self-assessment, case files, diagnostic tools, a comprehensive search platform,and the ability to download content to a mobile device.
Africa-Wide Information
combines bibliographic databases from around the world to form a multidisciplinary aggregation offering unique and extensive coverage of all facets of Africa and African studies. This includes content from South African Studies, African Studies, and African HealthLine, which focuses on all aspects of health relating to Africa and other developing nations. With over 3.2 million citations and abstracts dating back to the 16th century, this resource is essential for those with an interest in African research, and information on and about Africa
Agricola
a comprehensive source of bibliographic citations covering all aspects of agricultural sciences,botany,ecology and related areas.
AIDS and Cancer Research
provides bibliographic data from the worldwide scientific literature as related to AIDS, immunology, virology and cancer genetics.
Biomedical and Life Sciences Seminar Room (Henry Stewart Talks)
Seminar Style presentations by leading world experts
Biological Sciences
compilation of abstracts and indexes of domestic and international literature in the area of life sciences
CAB Abstracts
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. Searching CAB Abstracts
Drug Index
Search for summaries and detailed monographs for drugs, disease, alternative medicine, toxicological managements, reproductive risks, and emergency care.
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management
This multidisciplinary database, provides unparalleled and comprehensive coverage of the environmental sciences. Abstracts and citations are drawn from over 10,000 serials including scientific journals, conference proceedings, reports, monographs, books and government publications.
Food Science and Technology
food sciences, food products, and food processing including the relevant basic sciences: biotechnology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, microbiology, engineering, and toxicology, as well as economics and legislation
Henry Stewart Talks - Biomedical and Life Sciences Seminar Room
Seminar Style presentations by leading world experts
ISAP (Select ISAP in the Jump to Database window)
Index to South African Periodicals
ISI Highly Cited.com
reveals the face of research--the people behind the accomplishments in 21 broad subject categories in life sciences, medicine, physical sciences, engineering and social sciences. These individuals are the most highly cited within each category for the period 1981-1999, and comprise less than one-half of one percent of all publishing researchers--truly an extraordinary accomplishment.
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS)
The library contains full-text veterinary books, manuals and collections of state-of-the art reviews within specific areas of veterinary medicine, proceedings of veterinary meetings and symposia and autotutorial and continuing education websites, etc.
Journal Citation Reports
Journal performance metrics,including Impact Factor
MICROMEDEX Healthcare Series
A wide range of clinical databases, including unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine.
MDConsult
The MD Consult Core Collection provides quick access to the complete text of 39 leading medical reference books; over 1000 Clinical Practice Guidelines; full text access to over 60 medical journals and clinics; a comprehensive drug database providing unbiased FDA prescribing information for over 30,000 medications; Patient handouts; select articles from the most respected medical journals; clinical topic tours providing an extensive set of resources on key clinical topics in medicine; up-to-date news items.
Medline
MEDLINE encompasses information from Index Medicus, Index to Dental Literature, and International Nursing, as well as other sources of coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, and reproductive biology. (Searching Medline)
Merck Veterinary Manual
providing useful clinical information for the veterinary practitioner and other animal health professionals covering diseases seen worldwide in all the common domestic species
Microbiology Abstracts
provides coverage of research in microbiology, bacteriology and related fields and findings applicable to agricultural, chemical, pharmaceutical and other industries are included.
Mims Online
database of prescription and generic drugs
Pubmed
provides access to bibliographic information, which is drawn primarily from MEDLINE as well as additional life science journals and access and links to the integrated molecular biology databases containing DNA and protein sequences, 3-D protein structure data, population study data sets, and assemblies of complete genomes in an integrated system.
Pubmed Central
the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
Refworks
designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies. ( How to use Refworks)
Science Direct
an essential information resource for millions of scientists around the world covering more than 1700 journalsand with 3,578,782 online articles(How to use Science Direct)
SciFinder   Please read the attached note on how to register for this product
Allows you to explore the CAS databases containing literature from many scientific disciplines including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, etc.!
Scopus
Subject areas covered are · Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics and Engineering: 4500 titles
· Life and Health Sciences: 5900 titles (100% Medline coverage)
· Social Sciences, Psychology and Economics: 2700 titles
· Biological, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences: 2500 titles
· General Sciences: 50 titles
Toxline
provides information in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens.
Web of Science
citation databasis, multi-disciplinary with authors abstracts and multi-year searching covering over 1,4 million articles
Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide
covers the world's literature on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians (Searching Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide)
Zoological Record
most extensive zoological research information available (Searching Zoological Record)

STEP 2 : Collect your hard copies of the references.

E-Journals
electronic journal collection of the University of Pretoria
- check this site to see if a journal is available in electronic format and also the holdings of the electronic version
-make sure you are registered with the library
UPexplore
-the electronic catalogue of the holdings of the University of Pretoria can be used to see if the journal/book you are looking is part of our collection
-books on loan can be renewed from your office
Inter Library Loan
- make use of Sabinet to order your articles or books from other libraries.
- users must be registered to make use of this service (see Interlending page)
Instructions or a demo for the use of Sabinet.
 
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