Profile

With a sound track record of more than 30 years Sabinet has firmly established itself as a leader in facilitating access to a wide spectrum of high quality and credible information sources. Over the course of the last three decades, Sabinet has managed to build strong local and international reputation for providing Africa's information to the world and the world's information to Africa.

Our mission to support library technical processes; promote resource sharing and enable easy access to information sources, is underpinned by our dedication to the values of commitment, partnerships, understanding and support.

As a result of our expertise, our clients include public and private organisations, as well as academic institutions in South Africa and the rest of Africa. Our offerings are characterised by an in-depth understanding of our clients ever-changing information needs, our information management expertise, our ability to innovate and add value through delivery of enhanced products and services that meet new and emerging information requirements.

In addition, we pride ourselves in our ability to combine specific elements from our broad portfolio products to create customised solutions, so aiding research and decision making, as well as, assisting organisations to improve services, save costs and increase productivity. Accordingly, Sabinet continuously develops innovative solutions that enable libraries to deliver the best service they can to their users.

Sabinet's roots are in library support services, where we are recognised for providing central platforms for collaboration and resource sharing among libraries. Our appointment as the Sub-Saharan distributor of OCLC products in 1995 enabled us to bring world-class products to South Africa, which are relevant to African libraries and allowed us to further enhance our innovative and customised offering.

Products and Services

Sabinet's library services, which include cataloguing, interlending and reference services are used extensively by academic, public, government and corporate libraries within South Africa and across the African continent. We believe in working together with libraries in order to best understand their needs, and this enables us to deliver services that best serve them.

Sabinet offers online journals originating from or pertaining to Africa. The Sabinet African ePublications (SA ePublications) service has been available online to clients with great success since 2001. This service is the most comprehensive, searchable collection of full-text African electronic journals available on one platform which focuses on information originating from or pertaining to Africa.

Now including the African Journal Archive, SA ePublications offers almost 500 African journals, a number that grows consistently as new journal titles are added. SA ePublications is not only the largest collection of its kind, but also easy to use since the platform was designed with the end user in mind.

Sabinet has in addition, built a solid reputation as a provider of both library and digital collection management systems, providing both implementation and support services of these systems. Thanks to the expertise we have built up through the execution of our own digitisation projects, we are also able to provide specialised digitisation services to organisations that require assistance with the preservation of their documents.

Recognising the high demand for access to timeous, accurate and credible information, Sabinet has furthermore entrenched itself as a partner in the legal community, providing a full spectrum of legal information products and services - from Bill tracking to Gazettes and Municipal By-laws.

A company with heart

Sabinet's continued success is due to our keen understanding of African and international libraries, their needs and African content. The professionalism and dedication of our staff are underpinned by a philosophy of providing exceptional client service, adhering to high ethical standards and integrity as well as striking a healthy work life balance.

Accordingly we have created a dynamic and successful business culture and working environment and strongly believe that this focus will continue to drive our performance and ongoing success.

Our Corporate Social Investment is dedicated at the educational and social development of disadvantaged communities in South Africa.

We are firmly committed to the principles of Broad-Based Economic Empowerment and are currently rated as a level 4 contributor according to the generic ICT sector code.