African Digital library (Free)
The Mission of the ADL is to provide digitised full text resources to learners in Africa via the Internet, thereby contributing to the revitalization of education and life long learning on the continent and alleviation of the digital divide between First and Third world countries. The ADL was created in the spirit of the African Renaissance
www.africandl.org.za
African Journals OnLine. (Free)
AJOL online access to African journals. AJOL offers the tables of content and abstracts from journals published in Africa on: agricultural sciences and resource management ; arts, culture, language and literature; health; science and technology; social sciences
www.ajol.info/
Africa Research Central (Free)
This research tool provides information on the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources. Areas include agricultural sciences and resource management; arts, culture, language and literature; health; science and technology and social sciences. The free searchable database allows you to locate primary source repositories in Africa.
www.africa-research.org/mainframe.html
African Traditional Religion (Free)
African Traditional Religion webpage maintained by CHIDI DENIS ISIZOH. ...
www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/
Bible online (free)
biblestudytools.net/
Catchword (Free)
Gives access to contents pages of 1100 journals in all academic disciplines.
www.catchword.com/
Catholic Church Documents of the Magisterium. (Free)
All available at www.vatican.va
An easier method to access them is to put the Latin title of the document on Google. The English text will come up first.
Catholic Encyclopaedia (Free)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, as its name implies, proposes to give its readers full and authoritative information on the entire cycle of Catholic interests, action and doctrine.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/
Center for Electronic Resources in Theology and Religion. (Free)
See information on selected journals in the fields of religion, theology, classics, Near Eastern and Mediterranean archaeology, and ancient history
rosetta.reltech.org/CERTR/e-journals.html
Encylopedia.com (Free)
The Internet's premiere free encyclopedia, provides users with more than 57,000 frequently updated articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Each article is enhanced with links to newspaper and magazine articles as well as pictures and maps - all provided by HighBeam Research.
www.encylopedia.com/
ERIC full access (Free)
This Education and information database is a national information system funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide access to education literature and resources. Many articles are available in full text.
www.eric.ed.gov
Find articles (Free)
LookSmart's FindArticles provides full text access to over 3.5 million articles from over 700 publications in areas as diverse as computers, politics, social science, education, religion, arts and entertainment, business and commerce and many more. Many are available in full text
www.findarticles.com
Full text theology journals online (Free)
The site provides a comprehensive listing of journals, magazines and other electronic sources available in full text on the internet. Some journals are free and others require a fee
library.stmarytx.edu/acadlib/subject/theology/theoejrn.htm
Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Free)
Most of the articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy are original contributions by specialized philosophers around the internet; these are identifiable by the author's name at the foot of the article. Others are are temporary, or "proto articles," and have largely been adapted from public domain sources. They are identifiable by the inclusion of the initials IEP at the close, and will in time be replaced by original articles
www.utm.edu/research/iep/
HighBeam Library Research (Some free functionality)
Search our extensive archive of more than 33 million documents from over 3,000 sources -- a vast collection of articles from leading publications, updated daily and going back as far as 20 years. Save your searches, save articles and set up alerts to save time and increase your efficiency.
www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp
Ingenta. (requires subscription)
Ingenta's collection of academic and professional online publications. Providing access to thousands of online journals from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers, the Ingenta Select service provides fast and reliable access from a global network of servers to users' desktops around the world. You have to pay a subscriotion. Ingenta Select provides access to more than 6,000 electronic publications from over 260+ publisher clients and bring together an extensive range of services for the librarian and end-user alike.
www.ingentaselect.com/
Internet theology resources. (Free)
Online theology related periodicals. This page lists online theology-related periodicals. Some of these are also available in printed form by subscription; others are exclusively electronic journals.
www.csbsju.edu/library/internet/theojour.html
NRF (National Research Foundation, SA)
This database gives valuable information on research projects done or still being done in SA, research organizations, researchers, forthcoming conferences and professional associations. This is free but a password should be obtained from the librarian.
nrf.ac.za/
Philtar (Free)
(Free Electronic resources Philosophy, Theology, Religious Education, Moral Education) Philtar is designed as a Subject Gateway to electronic sources and resources for teaching and learning in the academic areas of Philosophy, Theology and Religion.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk/
Open Access Journals. (Free)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. W e aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 774 journals in the directory. Subjects include Arts, architecture, science, technology, social science, politics, philiosophy and religion, health sciences, chemistry, physics and many more.
www.doaj.org/
Popline (Free)
Gives citations and abstracts of worldwide literature on population and demography, family planning, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases; maternal and child health, primary health care communication; population and environment.
www.popline.org/
Project MUSE (Free)
Gives access to one free sample issue of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
muse.jhu.edu/
Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature (Free)
This is an index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly from 29 African countries compiled by staff at the Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya.
lcweb2.loc.gov/misc/qsihtml/
Questia
(Provides one free page. Subscription required to read the whole book/article)
Questia has over 48,000 books and 390,000 journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. All books and articles are available in their entirety - search every page. Credible content not found anywhere else on the Internet. One page may be read for free but you must subscribe to get the full text. It can be useful to subscribe for one month when you have done your research and know what books/articles you need and cannot easily get access to them elsewhere.
www.questia.com
Theological Research exchange network. (Free)
The Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) is a library of over 10,000 theological thesis/dissertation titles representing research from as many as 70 different institutions.
www.tren.com/e-docs/
Virtual Religion Index. (Free)
This site is designed to advance research in matters of religion. As a global forum that may be accessed instantaneously anywhere, the internet promises to surpass the impact of the printing press on the study of religion. Gutenberg made possible the family Bible. The site puts a global library of free information on the desk of anyone with a computer & telephone line.
virtualreligion.net/vri/index.html
Yenza (Free)
A guide for doing research on the internet. "Yenza" - which means "do it" in isiXhosa and isiZulu - is a guide to using the Internet for research and teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. The project's understanding of "using the Internet for research" includes using Internet tools for finding information, for conducting research, as well as for disseminating research-related information.
www.nrf.ac.za/yenza/
The Harvard method
www.lmu.ac.uk/lss/ls/docs/harvfron.htm
The MLA method.
owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_mla.html
UNISA library online
oasis.unisa.ac.za/
University of KwaZulu Natal online catalogue
www.library.unp.ac.za
St Augustine College of South Africa
online catalogue (Coming soon)
Users
ANY computer on our LAN can access the database at any time. Simply click on the 'databases' icon found on the desktop.
Some databases only provide research information. They are marked (NFT) below. The articles and books referred to must be ordered through interlibrary loan. Consult the librarian. Increasingly, however, electronic databases are providing access to the full text of articles referred to. Most of our databases have some full text functionality with a number like Proquest religion, Find articles, Open access Journals providing complete or almost complete full text access. These are marked (FT). You can print out these articles at normal photocopy rates. Consult the librarian. Others like ATLAS full text, African Studies give some full text functionality. These are marked (SFT)
Africa wide Nipad (SFT)
Africa-Wide:NiPAD provides information and inspiration to support The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). This is a combination of two of NISC SA’s most well-known and popular databases, South African Studies and African Studies. All you need to know about Africa is now on one database. NISC will be adding new databases to this unique collection making it indispensable for those with an interest in Africa. NISC’s Duplicate Detection Software will prevent any duplicate citations being retrieved.
African Studies (SFT)
African Studies is an exclusive combination of 16 databases from three continents providing access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa. Combining 16 databases from three continents searchable together for the first time, this premier information resource contains over 852,975 indexed references, many with abstracts. Records are derived from books, periodical articles, pamphlets, maps and music recordings. Topics include politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, music and much more.
South African Studies (NFT)
South African Studies is a unique anthology (published by NISC South Africa) of 15 different databases providing access to over 1,043,200 records. South African Studies supplies unprecedented access to the great majority of documents published in and about South Africa, including theses, dissertations and current research.
St Augustine Catalogue (NFT)
Provides access to all the books catalogued in our library as well as a list of newly acquired books. Coming Soon online
ATLAS Full Text Plus (SFT)
American Theological Library Association.
ATLAS Full Text Plus is produced by the American Theological Library Association's Center for Electronic Resources in Theology and Religion. The ATLAS (American Theological Library Association Serials) project was created for religion scholars by religion scholars. It provides online versions of the entire runs of a core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949. ATLAS journals represent a wide selection of Christian traditions (including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal), Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, and other religious traditions.
The Philosopher's Index (NFT)
The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, epistemology, logic, and metaphysics as well as material on the philosophy of disciplines, such as law, religion, science, history, and education. 1940 to 2003.
ProQuest Religion (FT)
Designed to meet the needs of both religious studies programs and general library collections, the database is an excellent source of religious news and commentary, details on doctrines and philosophies, and reports on religious history and related archeology. ProQuest Religion also covers formal theological studies and commentary on topics of general interest from the perspectives of specific religions. An indispensable resource for anyone researching religious issues and perspectives, the ProQuest Religion database covers the most important journals in the field--and almost all of them are available in full-text, full-image, Text+Graphics™, or all three formats. Subject Area: Social sciences, education, and humanities. Formats: Abstracts and indexing, full text, full image, Overall dates of coverage: 1986 - present
Sabinet (NFT)
This collection of South African databases provides access to verified information available from South African and overseas databases, allowing unlimited access after subscription. All subject fields are covered - therefore whether you are looking for information in subject fields such as medicine, engineering, business, mining, etc. you will find the latest, up-to-date research information relating to the topic chosen. Subscribers have the option to choose the database in which they would like to search but they can also search across various databases in one search.
EconLit
American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economic literature giving an extensive source of journals, abstracts and citations published worldwide