Since all Sabinet services are web based, your end users can access the services directly via your intranet. This can
easily be achieved by making use of IP authentication. This method of access is very convenient since no user id and
password are required.

Various groups of reference databases are available:

Login to Online Reference:

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If you are a student at a SA tertiary institution, contact your library to access our services. If not, please register.

Online News

These databases provide full-text research material from the major South African news media – SAPA and SA Media. SA Media contains millions of news reports from 1978 to the present. The SAPA service includes full-text news reports from the entire media spectrum.

Pricing:

• An annual subscription fee

SA Citations

This group of databases provides extensive coverage of local and international information indexed by South African
organisations. Information sources are journal articles, research reports, conference proceedings and book chapters.

Included in this group are:

ISAP (Index to South African Periodicals) – indexed articles from more than 600 periodicals.

Kovsidex – Consists of selected articles according to the needs of the primary clients of the University of the Orange Free State. It also includes a wide range of reference works on the theory and practice of education from the database originally indexed by the Research Institute for Education Planning.

Forestry – a unique pamphlet collection from forestry, wood science and nature conservation research institutes in South Africa, the USA, South America, Europe, Australasia and certain countries of Eastern Europe. This database is compiled by the University of Stellenbosch.

Centre for Rural Legal Studies – the main focus of this database, compiled by the Centre for Rural Legal Studies, is on agriculture and agricultural workers on commercial farms in South Africa.

Cloverdex – a database of indexed periodical articles collected by the company Clover SA (Pty). It contains information primarily connected with the dairy industry in general (1980-2007) .

Mintek – a bibliographic database containing the results of Mintek's original research in the fields of metals and industrial minerals. The database consists of reports, patents, special publications, and papers (1931-2005).

Pricing:

• An annual subscription fee

SACat Plus

This group of databases provides bibliographic information about material stored in Southern African libraries, material published in South Africa, theses produced in South Africa (Doctoral and Masters level), and current and completed research undertaken in South Africa.

Included in the group are:

SACat – a union catalogue of items held by Southern African libraries. Updated daily.

SANB – all material published in South Africa (books, pamphlets, government publications, maps, technical reports, periodicals). Updated daily.

UCTD – bibliographic records of theses and dissertations (Doctoral and Masters level) submitted to South African universities since 1918. Updated daily.

Navtech – information on current and completed research undertaken in what used to be South Africa’s technikons. Updated daily.

Subsidie – lists all journals which have been approved as research platforms. Updated annually.

Current & Completed Research – South African research projects undertaken at South African academic institutions in the fields of economics, science and the humanities. Included are Masters and Doctoral theses and research works from the government, non-government and private sectors. Updated regularly.

Pricing:

• An annual subscription fee

Online Tenders

An agreement with TradeWorld allows Sabinet to provide subscribers with access to all formal tender advertisements, either published or received by TradeWorld. This includes tenders issued by municipal, government, semi-government and the private sector.

• All tenders can be found in one place
• You save money as you don’t need to subscribe to multiple services
• Search by tender description and category is possible
• Some African tenders are included
• Daily updates

Pricing:

• An annual subscription fee

OCLC FirstSearch Databases

Sabinet, through its partnership with OCLC, provides access to additional reference sources via the FirstSearch interface.

For more information visit the OCLC website.