African Citation Index -- To create awareness of science in Africa and to stimulate a greater demand for African science
African Union (AU) Common Repository -- Acquires, processes & preserves materials of enduring value to the AU
Climate Change Knowledge Portal -- For climate-related information, data, and tools
Connecting-Africa -- A gateway to African research information and materials produced worldwide
Cost (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) -- Search current and past COST operation networks (COST actions). e.g. meteorology, radar worldwide
Future Climate for Africa-- provides opportunities to generate new climate science focused on Africa, that has an impact on human development across the continent
Google Dataset SearchTo find datasets wherever they are hosted, e.g. type in search box: weather:south africa
Google Scholar-- Helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research
Guide to Africa in the Internet-- Free, research-oriented online resources selected by the Nordic Africa Institute library
Hathitrust Digital Library-- One of the world’s largest digital libraries, preserving human knowledge
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) -- publications for the international promotion and coordination of scientific studies of Earth (physical, chemical and mathematical) and its environment in space
SA Risk and Vulnerability: Resources-- Understanding Risk and Vulnerability
SA Risk and Vulnerability: Themes-- From Agriculture to Oceans & Coasts, Settlements, Weather & Climate
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Water Research Commission (South Africa)
WorldCat-- The world's largest library catalogue, helping you find library materials online
Deutscher Wetterdienst LibrarySelect Bibliothek/Library
ECMWF eLibrary-- Search e-documents (free full-text) of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
KNMI Various Publications -- Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut
NCAR Library-- National Center for Atmospheric Research
NOAA Educational Resources-- Find online educational resources at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (U.S.)
UK Metoffice. National Met. Library
WMO eLibrary-- Search e-documents (mostly free full-text) from the World Meteorological Organization, and other organizations, on meteorology or relevant fields
National Met. & Hydromet Services
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
A Climate change reference atlas includes South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland, and also the southern parts of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique
South African risk and vulnerability atlasAn atlas of spatial data, predefined maps and metadata
Published since 1927, WWR include monthly mean values of pressure, temperature, precipitation, and where available, station metadata notes documenting observation practices and station configurations. Data were supplied by National Meteorological Services as members of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The first issue included data from 1755-1950. Data have also been collected for periods 1921-30 (2nd Series), 1931-40 (3rd Series), 1941-50 (4th Series), 1951-60 (5th Series), 1961-70 (6th Series), 1971-80 (7th Series), 1981-90 (8th Series), and 1991-2000 (9th Series). The WWR process of collection for the 10th series (2001-2010) is still on going as well as the annual collections since 2011.
European Meteorological Society
International Forum of Meteorological Societies
Meteorological Society of New Zealand
RMetS-- Royal Meteorological Society
South African Society for Atmospheric Sciences(SASAS)
Southern African Development Community -- Meteorology & Climate
7 Habits of Highly Effective Open Access Research Communicators
BASE search engine provides more than 100 million documents from more than 5000 sources. Access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free
CORE-- Search millions of open access articles, seamlessly and across repositories worldwide
Directory of Open Access Books
Directory of Open Access Journals
Heritage Collections:
Antarctic Legacy of South Africa Archive -- preserves the human history of the expeditions and South Africa’s presence in the Southern Ocean
Biodiversity Heritage Library-- Search across biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global diversity community
International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) -- free publications
OAIster-- for digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide
OpenDoar-- find repositories with free access to research, theses, e-books, articles; search across the repositories using CORE
Open Access Button -- Enter the article URL, DOI, article title or other identifier, and ask Open Access Button to retrieve Open Access versions of an article. Also add the button to your browser toolbar for quick access. Each researcher should have the button on their browser toolbar
Pangaea Data Repository-- Open Access library for archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research
R-- Free tutorials for learning R (free software environment for statistical computing and graphics; compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS
SABINET e-journals-- A comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform
SciELO Books Network -- Scientific Electronic Library Online: a collection of open access academic books
SciELO (South Africa) Scientific Electronic Library Online - Journal articles
Coursera –- Learn a new skill through various free courses, with specialization/certification subject to a fee
Edutraining with Google tools -- Free online training for the classroom using Google tools
edx -- Open source learning platform with a range of courses, which may be subject to payment for certification (Example:
MANTRA for Researchers –-free online course for those who manage digital data as part of their research project
Computer science C# Python Meteorology)Science Spaza -- Free resources for teaching/learning science at school (South African curriculum) through fun activities, tips & tools
Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons
Open Textbook Library -- May be freely used, adapted and distributed
WMO Global Campus -- Searchable collection of educational resources from WMO and others
Open Educational Resources (OER): an open course for anyone , no login required
Learn about what they are, their value in the education process, where to find them, and what open licenses are
Module 1: Scholarly Communications
Module 2: Concepts of Openness and Open Access
Module 3: Intellectual Property Rights
Module 4: Research Evaluation Metrics
Module 5: Sharing Your Work in Open Access
GOOGLE Translate Web- to translate web pages to and from more than 20 languages