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Neurology and Neurosurgery: Journals

What is a journal?

A journal is a scholarly publication containing articles written by researchers, professors and other experts. Journals focus on a specific discipline or field of study

Print journals

  • From the Library website click on the catalogue.
  • Type in the title of the journal and click on search.
  • Identify and find the journal in the relevant section of the library.

Google Scholar

Many academic journals are not freely available via Google hence the need to use the databases from the Library's website. GoogleScholar is a subset of Google that acts as an international index to articles, reports, theses etc. Google has no rights to make any item freely available unless already available but publishers ahve collaborated with Google and if UKZN pays for access to a journal it will be accessible via Google Scholar.

Google Scholar Search

Finding eJournals

  • From the Electronic resources page option on the Library Website click on e-Journals A-Z.
  • Type in the title of the journal.
  • If the journal is available online, access details will be provided showing where the journal appears and the time coverage.

If you do not know in which journals articles appear, search a database - click on the databases tab at the top of this page.

If you are working from off campus you will need to authenticate yourself on the off campus option.

Open Access

Open Access (OA) is the practice of providing unrestricted access via the internet to peer reviewed scholarly journal articles.

Searching Google Scholar will highlight those articles that  are freely accessible.

SAPSE accredited journal lists

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