ESAT A&L Bibliography S

Sabinet

The South African Bibliographic and Information Network, or Sabinet, is a comprehensive bibliographic service intended to facilitate resource sharing among South African libraries.

Established in 1983, Sabinet aimed to provide South Africa with a joint library network and a national union catalogue.

According to its corporate brochure[1], 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.

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.

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)

For summary details on the various services listed above, see the concise SACat Plus entry below, or the project's own online document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf. or the entry on SAcat below

Sources

The Sabinet website at https://www.sabinet.co.za/;

The Sabinet Reference website at https://reference.sabinet.co.za/]

The SACat Plus document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf

The Sabinet corporate brochure at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/Sabinet_Corporate_Brochure.pdf.

The SACat Plus document, available at https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf.

Information https://cdn.sabinet.co.za/documents/sacatplus.pdf

For more information you may contact Client Services on: info@sabinet.co.za

SACat Plus

SACat Plus is set of bibliographic resources managed by Sabinet. This comprises a group of comprehensive databases that provides substantial coverage of the items available in Southern African Libraries.

This service offers the following bibliographic databases:

SACat

A database of all items held in Southern Africa libraries. It includes books, journals, conference proceedings, standards, technical reports and electronic resources. Updated daily.

SANB

The South African National Bibliography is a compilation listing of books, pamphlets, government publications, microforms, maps, technical reports, and periodicals published in South Africa. Created by the National Library of South Africa. Updated daily.

UCTD

The Union Catalogue for Theses and Dissertations refers to the bibliographic records of theses and dissertations at master’s and doctorate level submitted to universities in South Africa since 1918. Updated daily.

Navtech

Information on completed research projects undertaken at the universities of technology and the old technikons across South Africa (1980s-). Updated daily.

Subsidie

Lists all periodicals approved as research platforms. National and international accredited journals are listed. Updated annually.

Current and Completed Research

South African research projects in economics, science and humanities, and includes the master’s and doctoral theses and dissertations from South African universities, technikons, and universities of technology, as well as the research works from the government, non-government and private sectors. Some records include links to the full text. The database is maintained by the National Research Foundation. (1919- ).

African Digital Repository

A central repository for records harvested from the institutional repositories of a number of Southern African and African institutions. Links to the full text are included.