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| − | [[The South African Bibliographic and Information Network]], or '''[[Sabinet]]''', is a comprehensive bibliographic service intended to facilitate resource sharing among South African libraries.
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| − | Established in 1983, [[Sabinet]] aimed to provide South Africa with a joint library network and a national union
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| − | According to its corporate brochure[https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/Sabinet_Corporate_Brochure.pdf], the original principles behind the organisation included the idea that it should be as simple as possible yet cost effective for all concerned, within the framework of a networked central library and database system. This is still the key motivation.
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| − | In 1997 a new private company, [[Sabinet Online]] (Pty) Limited, was formed with the objective of addressing the changing needs of the online information community and to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology.
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| − | For the purposes of [[ESAT]] compilers and users, the key feature of this initiative is the [[Sabinet Reference Platform]], a facility intended to provide a researcher with a single entry point from which to to seamlessly search [[Sabinet]]'s reference products (aspects of which are also referred to collectively as [[SACat Plus]]), which include the [[African Digital Repository]], [[Navtech]], [[SACat]], [[SANB]] ([[South African National Bibliography]]), [[Subsidie]] and [[UCTD]] (the [[Union Catalogue for Theses and Dissertations]])
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| − | '''For summary details on the various services listed above, see the concise [[SACat Plus]] document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf.'''
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| − | ==Sources==
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| − | The [[Sabinet]] website at https://www.sabinet.co.za/;
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| − | The [[Sabinet Reference]] website at https://reference.sabinet.co.za/]
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| − | The [[SACat Plus]] document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf
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| − | The [[Sabinet]] corporate brochure at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/Sabinet_Corporate_Brochure.pdf.
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| − | The [[SACat Plus]] document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf.
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