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Ms Yoli Soul
University Librarian

The University of Fort Hare Library has Campus Libraries located on the Alice Campus as well as at the East London Campus of the University,the Bhisho Campus and the Department of Nursing Sciences also in East London.The Library has over 165 000 volumes of books, periodicals and other material. Special collections are housed in the Howard Pim Library of Rare Books which is situated on the ground floor of the main library building. The East London Campus Library includes the Bisset Berry Collection that also is housed separately from the campus's main collection.
The purpose of the University library is to provide the University community with access to quality information services and resources in a variety of formats and delivery systems that support the teaching, learning research and service mission of the University of Fort Hare and to foster the skills which are necessary for independent lifelong learning thereby contributing to the social, cultural, intellectual and economic development of South Africa.The information services Library Services is integrated to the teaching, learning and research activities of the University.




To support excellence, the Library Services:
  • Places emphasis on freedom of enquiry
  • The staff will have strong user focus, emphasizing fairness and respect in dealing with all our users (Student, Staff and Members of the Community)
  • Staff will be committed to the integral nature of the Library Services in what is taught at the University
  • Will have highly trained staff to provide these services
  • The operations of Library services will be driven by the principle of quality, documentation, measurement, benchmarking, constant improvement and innovation
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Clinical Collections
Clinical collections is on trial until the end of January 2012. Please use this trial and give us your feedback. It covers mostly medicines and related topics.
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Informit Health
Informit Health Collection provides full text access to authoritative allied health and nursing content.
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Medicines Complete
Medicines Complete Provides • The latest advice on prescribing, dispensing and administering drugs and medicines • More than 12,000 drug, poison, interaction and herbal monographs • Up-to-date guidance on disease treatments, disease management and therapeutics
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e-Duke Books Scholarly Collection
UFH now has simultaneous, multi-user access to more than 100 scholarly frontlist e-books published by Duke University Press in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the complete selection of hundreds of backlist e-books available in electronic format.
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Future Science
Welcome to www.future-science.com - specializing in the publication of high-quality commentary and analysis in today’s key areas of research endeavor. Coverage reflects those areas that most impact our daily lives, our infrastructure for sustainable development and the associated technologies that will allow society to co-exist in harmony with the environment. We face difficult technical and intellectual challenges in all of these areas in coming decades.
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EBSCO Medline
Medline Fulltext on trial for 3 months
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Ovid
Body Plan and Organization Chemistry Cell Biology Histology Integumentary System Skeletal System Muscular System Nervous System Special Senses Endocrine System Blood Cardiovascular System Lymphatic System and Immunity Respiratory System Digestive System Metabolism Urinary System Fluid, Electrolyte & Acid-Base Balance Reproductive System
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