Sabinet:Sabinet:SA ePublicationsSA ePublications

Compiled by Helene van der Sandt

What is SA ePublications?

What is SA ePublications? Sabinet’s SA ePublications service is the most

comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text academic articles from South African and African journals

It consists of the following collections: Business and finance Law Medicine and health Religion Social sciences and humanities Science, technology and agriculture

What is SA ePublications?

The SA ePublications service is a rich source of information right at your fingertips:

more than 300 titles more than 100 000 full-text articles searchable (with various search functionalities) exclusively South African and African content

The collection offers: contents pages and full text articles an alerting service for new issues added

Sabinet recommended browsers

Where do I find SA ePublications?

Library website library.nmmu.ac.za

On the Library page, click Databases on Web

Scroll down to Sabinet

Scroll to Sabinet Online

Click on: on-campus under SA ePublications’ description

Search Techniques

Identify keywordsDiscuss the effect of global warming on the climate. Decide on the main concepts (keywords) of your topicAvoid words that are vague or have multiple meanings, e.g. effectConnect more than one keyword with ANDKeywords in the above example:

Global warming AND climateGlobal warming is a phrase and indicated as such by ticking:

Remember one concept (keyword or phrase) per search box

Synonyms and Alternative terms for keywords are indicated by OR Use to broaden your search Also think of:

Synonyms Alternative spellings Abbreviations / Acronyms Broader or narrower meanings of your original keywords

climate OR weather

Truncation of keywords Truncation uses a symbol to represent all possible endings of a

keyword. SA ePublications uses * When you type politi* (stem + truncation symbol) you will

retrieve all documents with the following words: politics, politicians, politician, political, politically

BE CAREFUL not to truncate a keyword too soon, otherwise you will receive many unwanted results. For example: if you truncated the above example at polit* in stead

of politi*, you would also receive search results on polite, politesse, polity, etc.

In our assignment example, you can use climat* to find articles with the following words, climate and climatology (study of climates)

Search Strategy

Sabinet Online andornot

Tick Exact phrase box

*

1. SABINET SEARCH TECHNIQUES CHART

SEARCH STRING ACCORDING TO ABOVE CHART

2. APPLY SEARCH TECHNIQUES TO KEYWORDS

“global warming” AND (weather OR climat*)

3. ENTERING SEARCH STRING INTO SEARCH BOXES

INFORMATION RESOURCE

BOOLEAN OPERATORS

PHRASE TRUNCATION

Sabinet Online ANDORNOT

Tick Exact phrase box if available,

otherwise use “ “e.g. “South Africa”

*

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You can also do other types of searches

Keyword Search

Keywords Search

Search Results

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You can also filter/refine the search results by using these filters. Scroll down to see all the filters.

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Adding items to My Action List

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Export selected item to a bibliography manager, e.g. EndNote

Email selected article. The full text will be attached as a pdf to the email

Download the article in order to print or download to a memory stick.

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To work with all the selected items, use the buttons at the bottom.

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