Your Research Journey
Tools and services to support your research journey.
ORCID provides a persistent identifier – an ORCID iD – that distinguishes you from other researchers and a mechanism for linking your research outputs and activities to your iD. Learn moreData Services
Digital Library Services helps with Research Data Management (RDM) and offers Digital Scholarship, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and data stewardship services to the research, teaching and learning communities at UCT.
What is Digital Scholarship?
We are all digital scholars in some way because we engage with digital technologies when studying, teaching or researching. Improve your digital scholarship skills using a diverse tools and platforms to support your next research project.
Join the UCT Data Community
DLS hosts the UCT community of Data Stewards and Champions. Subscribe to our Newsletter for our next get-together to discuss all things data!
Open Access Publishing
UCT Libraries are advocates for open access publishing, providing resources for researchers to make their work freely accessible in various ways. The University’s open book and journal publications are brought to you by Scholarly Communication's UCT Libraries publishing service.
What is Open Access?
Open access is the immediate, online, free availability of research outputs without the restrictions posed by publishers to keep research hidden behind subscription journals and databases.
Training and Workshops
Savvy Researcher Series
- Academic Writing for Postgraduate Students
- Smart Searching
- Where to Publish your work
Digital Scholarship Training
- Research data management with DMP Online
- Analyse and visualise data with GIS Tools
- Share and Publish data with ZivaHub
Research Spaces
Silent Study Spaces
The Research Commons in Chancellor Oppenheimer Library caters for the information and workspace needs of master’s and PhD postgraduates,postdoctoral research fellows and academic staff.
Present your Research
Hlanganani Junction is a research engagement space that houses a visualisation wall for research groups to display and interpret large research data sets.
Contact Us
- Visit the Information Desk
- Email libraries@uct.ac.za
- Find a Subject Librarian
- Ask a Librarian
- Visit our Staff Directory
- Make an appointment with one of our friendly librarians.