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Journal Article Databases / Financial and Statistical Databases / Country and Industry Reports

African Journals (Sabinet)
Sabinet African Journals has an exclusive assortment of over 500 African and southern African journal titles with more than 350 000 full text articles. This service is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform which focuses on information originating from or pertaining to Africa.

Ebsco Host - Academic Articles
Fulltext academic articles covering - business economics finance marketing medicine
psychology & technology etc
- Business Source Premier
- Academic Search Premier
- PsycArticles
- SocIndex

Emerald
Full text articles on all aspects of management
Focusing on Bank Marketing Behaviour and Market Research Consumer Marketing Innovation
Management Internet Research Knowledge Management Human Resource Management
Operations Production Management and Supply Chain Management

Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies
Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies is a online collection of peer reviewed case studies focusing on business decision making and management development throughout key global emerging markets. Cases are written primarily by case-writers working in developing economies offering local perspectives with global appeal

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature - you must login with your UCT staff/student number and vula password to access the articles. Note: not all journals are included in Google Scholar eg. Harvard Business Review and it uses a ranking algorithm. The cited by and related links are very useful. However like Google it is hard to know what Google Scholar is not showing you so use in conjunction with the other academic databases

Jstor
JSTOR was founded to be a shared digital archive serving the scholarly community and is a digital library of academic journals books and primary sources and has consists of both archival and current journal titles

Sage Journals Online
Journals cover topics in area studies ethnic and gender studies humanities health sciences materials science and the social sciences

Sage Research Methods Online
Online access to articles books book chapters and videos on all aspect of research methodologies
(Use Chrome rather than IE)

Science Direct
Full text articles on leadership psychology business economics finance environment science medicine and technology

Scopus
Articles in the fields of science technology medicine social sciences and arts and humanities Scopus also features citations and smart tools to track analyze and visualize research

Springer
Documents and journals.

Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis publish more than 2,600 journals. Subjects covered include Development Studies; Economics, Finance, Business & Industry; Environment & Sustainability; Urban Studies. UCT Libraries subscription does not cover all titles.

Web of Science
Online collection of articles focusing on the Sciences Social Sciences and the Arts and Humanities
Journal Impact Factors and Citation information is also provided

Wiley Online Journals
Online articles on all topics

Financial and Statistical Databases

Africa Development Indicators
World Bank database with comparative data about African countries

Bloomberg
Access to Bloomberg via UCT Libraries.

Eighty20
Eighty20's XtracT is the easiest way to access consumer information databases in South Africa: demographics psychographics products media etc.
XtracT provides access to a wide range of survey databases many of which track key trends over several years (e.g. AMPS Finscope some Stats SA databases

Follow the registration instructions to use Eighty20 remotely: https://bit.ly/2yqI64c

Eikon
Access to Eikon via UCT Libraries.

IMF eLibrary (International Monetary Fund)
Import and Export data; Commodities data; Country financials; Gold Supply; and Population data for a variety of countries

IRESS
Access to IRESS Expert and IRESS Research Domain

Marketline (Click on IP access)
Access to company industry financial and country business data for every major marketplace in the world. Extensive global coverage of industries with 4000 industry profiles and 30000+ companies within 215 countries

NIDS - National Income Dynamics Survey

OECD iLibrary
The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD's analysis and data.
11 050 ebook titles
53 500 chapters
146 800 tables and graphs
5 890 articles
5 130 multilingual summaries
5 200 working papers
5 billion data points across 42 databases
Note: UCT access does not include the IEA statistics

South Africa Survey
Current South African macro-economic and key socio-economic statistics and succinct analyses of the socio political environment South African trends and statistical data: Assets and Incomes; Business and Infrastructure; Communications; Crime and Security; Demographics; Economy; Education; Employment; Health; Industrial Relations; Living Conditions; Politics and Government; Public Finance; Social Security Click on the link for South Africa Survey

Statistics South Africa - Stats SA
South African statistical data: CPI PPI GDP Construction Manufacturing Mining Labour Population Tourism & Unemployment and Census data

World Databank
The World Bank Databank consists of 61 databases but the main database is the World Development Indicators (WDI) - the primary World Bank collection of development indicators compiled from officially recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available and includes national regional and global estimates

Country and Industry Reports

CountryWatch (Select "Login via IP address")
CountryWatch provides critical country-specific intelligence and data to a global audience including public and private sector organizations with overseas operations and global interests. In addition, CountryWatch provides country information to large media audiences in various venues as part of its media strategy.

Key publications produced by CountryWatch include the CountryReviews, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information, and the CountryWire,which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world and a significant news archive made up of the compendium of regional news carriers.
To access
Select Login via my IP Address to gain full access

Emerging Markets Information Service
EMIS operates in and reports on countries where high reward goes hand-in-hand with high risk. EMIS has time-sensitive, hard-to-get, relevant news, research and analytical data, peer comparisons and more for over 145 emerging markets. UCT has access to Africa & the Middle East Asia Argentina Brazil and Chile
Industry reports including Oxford Economics, Fitch Ratings, BMI Research, EMIS Insights, Euromonitor International and more

Gartner (link)
Gartners is a leading research and advisory company that provides senior leaders across the enterprise with the indispensable business insights, advice and tools needed to achieve their mission-critical priorities and build the organizations of tomorrow.
Gartner does various types of research, which is divided into sections.

Gartner (info re access)
UCT only has access to the core IT research package, which contains thousands of research reports on over 700 topics.
Once you have authenticated, under the search bar right on top of the screen, click Advanced Search. Scroll to the Entitlement section and ensure that is selected to Research I Own > click Search. Now you will only be able to see what UCT has access to.

Who Owns Whom
WOW has a database of 170000 listed and unlisted companies operating in Africa. While ownership and/or subsidiary information is available for all featured companies 15000 companies have been researched in detail.
Industry sector reports are available for most major sectors and contain the following: description size and state of the industry; influencing factors; competition (barriers to entry); SWOT analyses and industry associations; plus a list of all companies within that industry.