NJH Indexing and Abstracting

Scopus

A bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations for academic journal articles. Scopus is owned and operated by Elsevier, a global information analytics company. Scopus covers nearly 36,377 titles from over 11,678 publishers, including 21,915 peer-reviewed journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It provides bibliometric data and analytics capabilities to its users.

EBSCOhost

EBSCO is an integrated information service that combines various scholarly resources and tools into a single platform. It consolidates reference databases, subscription management, online journals, books and linking services. EBSCO is widely used by libraries, schools, government institutions, medical facilities, corporations and other organizations. By bringing together materials like databases, subscriptions, ebooks and citation links, EBSCO aims to provide a holistic information solution for various user groups. It strives to serve as a one-stop shop for research, education and professional information needs.

Crossref

Crossref operates as the digital object identifiers (DOI) registration agency for scholarly publications. It maintains a citation linking system that allows users to click on references in articles and navigate seamlessly to the cited content, even if hosted on another publisher's platform. This cross-publisher network connects millions of scholarly works from hundreds of academic and industry publishers. The infrastructure provided by Crossref enables researchers to easily traverse citations between disparate online archives, subject to individual access rules. Overall, Crossref's interwoven citation links aim to facilitate discovery and exploration within the academic literature.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple search tool for scholarly literature across various sources. It indexes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and other academic works from publishers, societies, universities and more. When returning results, Google Scholar evaluates and weighs full text relevance, author, publication, and citations to prioritize the most pertinent resources at the top. Its algorithm aims to highlight the most important academic articles by considering factors like query match, author influence and citation impact within a field. Google Scholar allows users to easily search a wide breadth of scholarly sources and surfaces the most relevant results.

Sabinet

Sabinet is a leading provider of online information services in South Africa, offering a range of products and services that cater to the needs of various industries, including academia, research, and business. Sabinet indexes and abstracts a wide range of subjects, including STEM fields, social sciences, humanities, and arts, and provides thorough subject analysis, accurate abstracts, and classification of content. By doing so, Sabinet increases the visibility and impact of African research, facilitating collaboration, innovation, and knowledge sharing across disciplines and borders. Additionally, Sabinet classifies content using standardized thesauri and taxonomies, and links abstracts to full-text articles.