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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SUBJECT PORTAL 

 

Welcome to the research support for Academy of Information Technology users in the fields of Computer Sciences, Informatics and IT Management

 

The Resources for these subjects have been selected by Pavlinka Kovatcheva, subject librarian at APK Campus, Level 1, Tel: 011 559-2621, e-mail: pkovatcheva@uj.ac.za

 

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SUPPORT TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY USERS 


Do you know how to CREATE A PIN for access to the Library resources? 

Forgot your Password (PIN)? Contact the LENDING DESK staff for assistance.


LIBRARY SUPPORT TO UNDERGRADUATES

  

Visit the Library Support to Undergraduates & New Students Portals for more information.

 

Library Membership 

  • To access the UJ Library use your student card @ the entrance

 

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library 

 

Learners Support Services

 

Librarian Advice & Training 

 

Assignments & Projects Instructions

 

Social Networking

 

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LIBRARY SUPPORT TO ACADEMICS & RESEARCHERS

 

Go to these relevant portals to find more information on: Library Support to Teaching & Library Support to Research

Library Membership 

 

Searching & Borrowing Materials from UJ Library 

 

Borrowing Materials from Other Libraries

 

Teaching Support

 

Librarian Advice & Training

 

Research Support

 

Theses & Dissertations (T & D)(incl. Institutional Repositories)

Current Awareness Tools

 

Manage your References

 

Citing & Referencing

 

Impact Journals

 

South African Accredited Journals

 

Internationally Accredited Journals

 

Social Networking

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  Your Subject Librarian will help you with any queries or requests for "topic search", library problem solving, etc.  

 

Go back to the Sciences Librarian Portal!

 

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LIBRARY RESOURCES & SERVICES


Quick links to the MAIN library resources and services: 

 

About UJ Library 

UJ Library                                              Campus Libraries         

Library Regulations                                 Study Cubicles 

Library Submission Forms                        Library Staff (APKDFC Campuses)    

Library Hours                                          Library Hours: 24h Study Area

 

How to create Library PIN for access to Library Resources

Create PIN in the Library.pdf

 

Library Services 

Ask-A-Librarian                 Information Librarians                   Virtual Learning Environment      

Lending Services               Inter Campus Loan Service             Inter Library Loan Service         

Copyright                          Bindery

 

Library Collections

 

Information Resources

 

Sciences Subject Collections

Sciences Librarian Portal                Applied Mathematics & Mathematics

Astronomy & Astrophysics               Biochemistry

Biology                                           Botany & Plant Biotechnology

Chemistry                                       Energy

Environmental Management             Geography

Geology                                          Human Anatomy & Physiology

Information Technology                 Microbiology

Physics                                           Statistics

Zoology

 

Additional Subject Collections

Accounting     Economics      Education       Law      Politics

 

Printing & Photocopying (APK Library

Support to photocopiers and printers resides with Xerox. Ask for assistance: Level 5, Elevators foyer, Tel: 011 559 2184.

Photocopiers are available on: Level 1, 2 5 7 6. Printing stations are available on: Level 2 & 5.

 

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IT JOURNALS, DATABASES & WEB RESOURCES


The databases below are the most relevant resources where you can start your search for Journal Articles, Conference Proceedings, Reviews, Electronic books, Standards, Patents, etc.

 

REMOTE ACCESS is available to all the databases. Just log-in with your SURNAME, STUDENT /STAFF NUMBER, PIN. Learn how to create PIN.

 

Remember!

  • By searching the databases below, you search for JOURNALS ARTICLES.
  • When searching CASE: A-to-Z Journals, you search for JOURNALS TITLES  
  • For in-depth research on a topic start with these Bibliographic Databases: Science Citation Index, etc.
  • If you look for full-text articles to complete your assignment or project, then search any of these databases: ACM, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, WileyInterscience, Academic Search Premier, Academic OneFile.

 

  • For assistance and guidance contact your subject librarian (contact details at the TOP)

FULL-TEXT JOURNALS SEARCH

 

Search the following resources, when you need to find specific JOURNAL title:

 


JOURNALS ABBREVIATIONS

 

In many references the Journal title is ABBREVIATED. The links below will help you find the FULL-TEXT journal title.

 

 

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TOP DATABASES FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

 

Journals search: CASE: A-to-Z Journals  (NEW!)  

 

Bibliographic Databases

          - Engineering, Computing & Technology

          - Compendex

          - Inspec

          - Referex (e-books)

 

Full-text Databases (incl. abstracts only)

  • Emerald (full-text & abstracts; Computer Science; Engineering & Technology; Management) 

  • IEEE Xplore (Journals full-text from 1997+)

 

P.S. If you are still unsure, which database to use, go to the Databases Information sheet. 

       

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SCIENCES SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCHABLE WEB RESOURCES


Sciences Search Engines

 

Search Across multiple Publishers to find references for your research: 

 

Use Google Scholar to search for academic articles across multiple publishers: Springer, Elsevier, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, JSTOR, Blackwell-Wiley, SAGE and many more.

 

You can EXPORT your references directly to RefWorks! Read MORE...

 

 

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FULL-TEXT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY JOURNALS


For more Journals search: CASE: A-to-Z Journals  (NEW!)    

 

*Full text delay due to publisher restrictions ("embargo") 

 

Information Management & Computer Security (Emerald, 1994+) 

International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics (Emerald, 2008+) 

Internet Research (Emerald, 1994+) 

Cybernetics (Emerald, 1994+) 


FULL-TEXT SCIENCES JOURNALS


Full text delay due to publisher restrictions ("embargo")

 


ELECTRONIC BOOKS


As an addition to the print books in the Library: UJLink: Library Catalogue, you can make use of these electronic books. They can be access remotely. The e-books collections are arranged by relevance:

 

Safari Books Online (5 simultaneous uses)

Is the e-reference library for programmers & IT professionals. The library has 300 books, which can be updated and replaced with newer editions. Find books on Human-Computer interactions; Security; Programming, Hardware, Networking, Business, Certification, programming, IT Managemnet, etc.


CRC EngNetBase 

Full-text Handbooks on Computation, Computer Engineering, Reference & Collected Works, Computer Graphics, Multimedia and visualisation, Cryptography & Coding Theory, etc.


CRC TelecommunicationsNetBASE

Full-text Handbooks on Mobile Wireless Networks, Computer Network, Embedded Computing, Mobile Communications, Multimedia Encryption, Wireless Security, etc.


Referex (through EV2)

A specialized electronic reference database, Referex Engineering draws on hundreds of premium engineering books to serve as a pool of answers to your reference questions. Referex is fully searchable and instantly delivers Full-text content of over 1,600 e-book titles across the collections. The UJ Library subscribe to: Mechanical Engineering and Materials & Electronics and Electrical Engineering. Each collection includes: Handbooks of engineering fundamentals; Situational reference; Titles focused on technique and practice,  “How to” guides; Highly specialized professional information

 

AccessEnginering

McGraw-Hill Books Online. Titles per Topic ; Titles Alphabetical order.

 

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REFERENCE WORKS


ELECTRONIC DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS 


Use these electronic dictionaries & encyclopedias to access quickly the information you need.

 

AccessScience

Online version of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. Articles, current news and research updates, biographies of leading scientists, image galleries, multimedia. Good to get you started with your project or assignment and keep you update with the latest news in Science & Technology. HELP/FAQs! 


Oxford Dictionary of Computing

Fully revised by a team of computer specialists, making it the most up-to-date and authoritative guide to computing available. Recommended web links for many entries provide valuable further information. It also contains coverage of computer terms in industry, school, work, education, and the home, including the Internet, multimedia, networks and databases, and security.


Oxford Dictionary of Internet

This dictionary provides thousands of terms related to the Web, software technology, jargon, e-commerce, security, and the technical and organizational infrastructure of the Internet. There are also useful links to relevant websites. Because of the fast-moving nature of the Internet, the entries will be regularly updated and supplemented.


Oxford Dictionary of Weights, Measures and Units

This comprehensive dictionary provides clear definitions of all the units, prefixes, and styling of the Système International (SI), as well as industry-specific and traditional terms currently in use.


Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.


Oxford Reference Online 

Oxford Reference Online brings together language and subject reference works from one of the world's biggest reference publishers into a single cross-searchable resource. It offers over 175 fully-indexed, cross-searchable dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. View all subjects! 

 

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UNIVERSITY & SCIENCES LINKS


If you want to go directly to your Student Portal, Department, Faculty of Science or University web pages, click on any of the links below. 


CONFERENCES LINKS



 

SCIENCES RESEARCH LINKS (RANKING, IMPACT FACTOR, ETC.)


          - ScienceWatch RSS NEWS Feeds 

          - Sci-Bytes: What's New in Research

          - Fast Breaking Papers

          - New Hot Papers in Science (from Essential Science Indicators, Thomson Reuters)

          - Emerging Research Fronts

          - Fast Moving Fronts (Research Fronts that are growing most rapidly)

          - Research Front Maps (Clusters of highly cited papers and research front maps)

          - Country Profiles

          - What's Hot in... (Biology, Chemistry, Medicine, Physics)

 

                        

 

  • SciTopics: Research Summaries by Topic: Computer Science (Elsevier)

          - About SciTopics

          - Author Index

          - HELP!  

          - Read MORE!

 

  • Academia.edu (Academia is a tree of academics around the world, displayed according to university/department affiliation)(About; Read MORE!)

 

 


 

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