Library Database

Please note! If you are using a tablet or mobile phone this database list will be easier to use.
Access to online Library resources is managed either via WAM or via OpenAthens. If it is via OpenAthens there will be a note next to the Database title in the Database list below.

1. WAM Access to Online Library Services/Resources (Online databases, “My UJLink”, UJoogle, Electronic Course Reserves and Interlibrary Loans)

  1. Use your UJ Email password and your UJ username (Staff) or UJ student number (Campus Option) OR
  2. Use the current Library Option (i.e. Surname, UJ ID & Library PIN)

2. OpenAthens Access to Online Resources (such as online Databases, UJoogle)
Access online Library services by using your UJ username (Staff) or UJ student number and your UJ Email password.
For more information on access using OpenAthens, visit this OpenAthens Guide.

How do I use the filter?
1. To filter by Database Title, select the First Letter of the Title​ and select Submit.
2. To filter by one or more Subjects, select the Box next to the required subject(s) and select Submit. Remember to include Multidisciplinary in your selection.
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LinkSubjectsDescription
Vlex Justis
OpenAthens
Law

Case law and legislation in the UK, Ireland, EU and the Caribbean. Also includes cases and legislation (Conventions and Protocols) of the European Court of Human Rights
Coverage: varies according to title
Full Text

​War and Terrorism Collection
OpenAthens
Case studies, Historical studies, Politics

Balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.

WARC
(World Advertising Research Center) OpenAthens
Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Case studies, Marketing

Case studies on campaign strategies of leading brands, market intelligence, advertising forecasts, brand profiles, conference reports on top advertisers brands and agencies
Coverage: Varies according to content
Full Text
AAA -Adjustment of the text size

WAT (Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal)
13 dele (A - R)
Dictionaries, Language and literature

Full text explanatory Afrikaans dictionary (A – R)
Includes Woordkeusegids (Afrikaans thesaurus)

Waters & Oceans Worldwide
OpenAthens
Case studies, Engineering and Technology, Environmental and Energy science, Geology, Mining and Metallurgy

Databases on all facets of international water research, ranging from coastal and offshore engineering to pollution and water treatment.
Coverage: 1970’s to the present
Bibliographic with abstracts
Partly Full text, two year embargo for some journal titles

Westlaw International
OpenAthens
Law

International law
Books, Treaties, Journal articles, Case Law and Legislation
Coverage: Varies according to title
Partly full text

​Westlaw UK
OpenAthens
Law
​Westlaw US
OpenAthens
Law
​Who owns whom
OpenAthens
Business studies and Entrepreneurship, Economics and Econometrics, South African research
​Wiley Digital Archives
OpenAthens
Anthropology and Development studies, Geography, Health and Medicine, Historical studies, Multidisciplinary

An ongoing initiative with the world’s leading societies to digitize unique and rare primary sources; a huge range of photos, maps, sketches tables as well as letters, books and journals. You have access to three of the collections:
The New York Academy of Sciences – covering a wide range of original sources that have shaped two centuries of scientific progress.
The Royal Anthropological Institute – an archive that covers the globe, revealing historical research into topics from Archaeology through to geographic and religious studies.
The Royal College of Physicians – is the largest archive we provide currently, with documents from astronomy to neurology going back over 500 years.

Wiley Online Library OpenAthens
Health and Medicine, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Science, Sociology

A broad multidisciplinary collection of online resources covering life, health and physical sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.
No full text access to e-Books and Lab Protocols

Women's Studies Archive: Women's Issues and Identities
OpenAthens
Historical studies, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Social work, Sociology

This archive covers the social, political and professional aspects of women’s lives and their roles, experiences and achievements.
Coverage: 19th and 20th century
Full Text

Women's Studies International
OpenAthens
Anthropology and Development studies, Case studies, Education, Economics and Econometrics, Historical studies, Humanities, Multidisciplinary, Politics, Public management and Governance

Covers the core disciplines in Women’ s Studies in the areas of Sociology, History, Political science and Economy, Public policy,International relations, Arts and Humanities, Business and Education
Coverage: 1972 to present
Abstracts
Partly full text

World Bank E-Library
OpenAthens
Anthropology and Development studies, Multidisciplinary, Politics

Coverage: 1970 to the present
Bibliographic and abstracts
Partly full text (no full text to e-books)
AAA – Adjustment of the text size

​World Competiveness Online
OpenAthens
Multidisciplinary
World Politics Review
OpenAthens
Case studies, Politics

Politics, International relations.

​World Scientific
OpenAthens
Multidisciplinary, Reference Works, Research tool

A collection of scholarly works covering a wide variety of topics.

Mostly full-text

Yearbook of International Associations
OpenAthens
Anthropology and Development studies, E-Books, Multidisciplinary

Detailed international (active and dormant) organization profiles. No coverage of for-profit-organizations.
Coverage: 1997 to present. Full text.
Extensively links organization profiles to:
– Organizations’ own websites
– Other UIA subscription databases – incl. International Congress Calendar
– Free UIA databases:  Encyclopaedia of World Problems and Human Potential IGO Search – through intergovernmental organization websites
Logotypes of International Organizations
Transnational Associations Online – UIA journal archive
Automatic translation in 58 languages – also in Afrikaans


Total: 268 items

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