Mintek’s Library, with it’s state-of-the art multimedia information resources, provides a complete package of corporate intelligence for the minerals processing and related industries. The centre houses Southern Africa’s most comprehensive specialist collection of technical and business resources relating to extractive metallurgy, minerals processing, and related topics. The library is open to all people who require specialised technical information about minerals technology and related fields.

MISSION :

To provide a one stop information service to Mintek staff, other stakeholders and members thereby assisting in making strategic business decisions and support all technical and support objectives by providing high quality specialist information using all possible information resources.

SERVICES OFFERED:

·       access to a large collection of books, journals, reports and  patents relating to the mining, metallurgical and related industries.

·       access to electronic databases via Starweb (on-site or remote)

·       professional information searches on the above databases as well as international databases via Dialog.

·       Book/journal loans

·       Photocopying services and facilities

·       Interlibrary Loans (national and international)

·       Alert services via premium databases

REMOTE ACCESS TO MINTEK’S DATABASES:

·         Mintek Publications

·         Catalogue of books/journals/reports

·         Mintek selected journal articles

·         Forthcoming conferences

·         Company Reports (industry specific)

ACCESS TO PREMIUM DATABASES SUCH AS:

                ·         Chemical Abstracts on CD

      CA on CD includes a broad spectrum of technical and scientific information including Biochemistry, Physical, Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Macromolecular Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. It contains English language abstracts and indexes of the world’s literature of chemistry and chemical engineering.

·       Technology Research Database (including Metadex)

     This mega-file consists of CSA’s Materials Research Database with METADEX, High Technology Research Database with Aerospace, and the CSA Engineering Research Database. The database content represents the most current and comprehensive literature available. Dates covered are 1962 to present.

·         Raw Materials Data

      A worldwide database on minerals and metals. It is  unique source of information on ownership and production in the world’s mineral industry. It contains production by company, mine, refinery and country, capacities, new projects, basic financial data, maps and more.

·         Research Channel Online

      Published by Creamer Media.Its features include reports into key industrial sectors; reports into key mining sectors; Projects in Progress with selected updates from Africa; Mine Profile Directory: profiles from around the world; a bank of industry-specific surveys as well as the popular Engineering News and Mining Weekly.

·         ScienceDirect

    An information resource focusing on scientific, technical, medical literature in full-text. Subscription includes backfiles from 1995 to present

·         EBSCOHOST

     The database is made of

     Business Source Corporate - The world's largest, English-language, full text, periodical, business database provides corporations with nearly 2,800 quality magazines and journals, offering invaluable information on virtually every aspect of business.

   TOC Premier -This database provides table of contents information for over 26,400 of the most recently published journals. Types of journals range from business to scientific, technical and medical as well as general interest. This database contains over 29 million citation records, dating back to 1995.