List of databases available as application or mobile-friendly website.
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AAPG Complete Archive
Books and journals from American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG).
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AAPG Datapages
Articles from most of the publications from AAPG.
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Academic Search Elite
Journal articles within most subject areas.
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AGU Digital Library
Journals and books on geoscience.
AGU Journals
Scientific journals on geoscience.
ArticleFirst
Business, humanities, medicine, social sciences and technology.
Arts & Humanities Index
A multidisciplinary index covering the world's leading arts and humanities journals.
ATLA
Reference base on religion. Because of a licence agreement this base can only be used by one person at a time.
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Bibliography on the history of art (BHA)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography of scholarly writing about the history of western art.
Bibliotek.dk
Records of all items published in Denmark as well as all items found in the Danish public libraries.
BIBSYS Ask
The BIBSYS Library database provides access to books, periodicals etc. held by academic and research libraries in Norway.
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Bielefield Academic Search Engine
More than 33 million documents open to the public (Open Access). Most of the documents are from academic institutions, among others are all the documents in UiS Brage accessible in this database.
Biological Abstracts
The leading abstracting and indexing reference publication for life sciences information
BioMed Central
An independent publishing house that provides open access to more than 200 peer-reviewed biomedical journals.
Brage UiS
Open archive for academic and scientific works from UiS. Master's theses, scientific articles etc.
The British Library Sound Archive Catalogue
The catalogue includes entries for millions of recordings held in the Sound Archive.
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Business Source Complete
Management, economics, marketing and related subject areas.
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Cinahl
Authoritative coverage of literature related to nursing and allied health
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Cochrane Library
The best source to find methodical overviews on studies on effects of health measures.
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Compendex
Subscription cancelled from 2011. Compendex is included in Scopus, which we subscribe on.
Cristin
Cristin is the new joint research documentation system in Norway. The system will be used in the higher education sector, research institutes and the regional health authorities. It will be implemented in 2011.
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Dance in video
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century.
Datastream
Financial database with corporate and market information. Includes stocks, mutual funds, macro-economic time series, interest rates, bonds, commodities with daily rates and their main indexes.
Datastream is only available on PCs in the library.
DOAJ (=Directory of open access journals)
This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages.
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Ebrary
Provides access to 44 000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas.
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EBSCO
By clicking "EBSCOhost Web" you will get an overview of the bases EBSCO give access to, and you may choose which of them you would like to include in your search.
EconLit
Indexes books, journal articles, dissertations, and articles in books. Subjects covered include economic theory and history and other related subjects
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EconPapers
Provides access to the largest collection of online Economics working papers and journal articles.
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EMBASE
References to articles on biomedicine and pharmacology.
Emerald
Fulltext articles from more than 250 journals in management and marketing
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Encyclopedia of Social Work
Contains 400 lexical articles about differant subjects within social work, and 200 biographical articles on important persons in the history of this subject area.
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Eram
Mathematics
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Eric
Journal articles and reports in education.
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ESDU Wind Engineering Series
Provides validated engineering design data, methods and software that form an important part of the design operations of companies large and small throughout the world.
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To log on you need a username and password. Click "Log on" and log on via Feide before logging into the database. You will then receive the information needed.
ETDEWEB
Includes information on the environmental impact of energy production and use and is the biggest energy database in the world.
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Europa Filmtreasures
A good collection of historical European movies.
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GeoRef
Geosciences database, containing over 3 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses
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GeoScienceWorld
Geosciences database, formed by a group of leading geoscientific organizations.
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Google Scholar
Database from Google which limits results to scientific information.
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Hospitality & Tourism Complete
Bibliographic database covering scholarly research and industry news relating to all areas of hospitality and tourism.
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IEEE Xplore
Provides Web access to almost 3-million full-text documents from some of the world's most highly cited publications in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
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Infotopia
Academic search engine accessing only trusted websites.
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Internationl Encyclopedia of Dance
Nearly 2,000 articles written by scholars from fifty countries Covers the full spectrum of dance. Cultural and national overviews, and entries on dance forms, music and costumes, performances, and biographies of dancers and choreographers.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
Information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism.
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IOP (Institute of Physics)
More than 100 journals on physics from Institute of Physics (IOP)
ISI Highly Cited
An expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide
ISI Web of Science
References to articles from the world's leading journals and other printed media.
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ISI Journal Citation Report
Provides easy access to data that helps you evaluate and compare scholarly journals
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Jazzbasen
The Jazz Base contains information about the history of jazz in Norway.
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JSTOR
Database containing the back issues of scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields.
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Library PressDisplay
Database that gives access to more than 1700 newspapers. Three users can have access to this database at the same time.
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Library Search
A national information retrieval technology that contains books, electronic publications, audiobooks, notes and more from Norwegian libraries. Library Search indicates which library owns each of the objects you retrieve.
Lovdata
The Lovdata system covers the Norwegian primary legal sources. All sources are in Norwegian only.
Contact the personell in the library to log on to Lovdata.
The Faculty of Law Library, University of Oslo, has compiled a collection of translated Norwegian Legislation. You can search the legislation by going to www.ub.uio.no/ujur/ulov/.
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MatSciNet
A comprehensive database covering mathematics, statistics and computer technology.
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Medline
The biggest database within health and social sciences.
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MLA
Literature, language, linguistics, folklore.
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Music Online
Gives access to thousands of records with classical music, jazz and world music, via streaming. Nine databases. Contains sheet music and references, in addition to sound and video.
Musikkinformasjonssenteret
MIC's catalogue section contains works of 20th and 21st century Norwegian composers
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Naxos Music Library
The World’s largest Classical music listening service with a collection consisting of more than 700 000 tracks of music.
NBER (Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research)
Publications from the leading nonprofit economic research organization in USA.
Norart
References to articles from 450 Norwegian and Nordic periodicals and yearbooks.
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Norsk nasjonaldiskografi
References to recordings released in Norway back to 1990 (some back to 1980).
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Norske notetrykk
Norwegian national bibliography of printed music.
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Norsk kunsthistorisk bibliografi
Books and articles about Norwegian art, mainly from 1941 until today.
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Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound
Search in Norwegian Institute of Recorded Sound's database.
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Oil
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) is responsible for the production and publication of this bibliographic database. Coverage: 1974 -> 2007
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OnePetro
Access to technical documents from 13 petroleum related organizations.
Opera in Video
Contains about 150 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
Oxford Art Online
The Online edition of Grove Art and Oxford Art Reference
Online Guided Tour
Oxford History of Western Music
Digital edition of Richard Taruskin's acknowledged five-volume study on western classical music.
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance
The Oxford Dictionary of Dance offers wide coverage of dancers, choreographers, teachers, composers, technical terms, major works, important films, and organizations involved in the dance world
Oxford Music Online
Contains Grove Music Online with full text editions of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Opera, and Jazz. In addition to this it also contains Oxford Dictionary of Music and Oxford Companion to Music in full text.
Short introduction (pdf)
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PapersFirst
Index of papers presented at conferences worldwide
PEDro
Database containing more than 11 600 references on physiotherapy. 1929 ->
Philosopher's Index
References to books and journals about philosophy and related fields.
ProceedingsFirst
Provides citations of every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at The British Library from 1993 to the present.
PsychArticles
This database give access to 57 psychological journals from APA.
PsycInfo
Contains summaries and citations of literature in psychology and related behavioural and social sciences.
PubMed
Access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's, and additional life science journals.
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PubMed Central
Free digital archive from NIH of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.
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Researchgate
Social network for scientists. Here scientists can get in contact with colleagues all over the world. In addition to this, Researchgate contains about 35 million article abstracts, and thousands of articles in full text.
Rilm
Thousands of citations on international music.
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Sangindex
Index to songs published in Norway.
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ScienceDirect
Online service for scientific research that contains the full text of Elsevier Science journals in the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences.
Online training
To print articles from ScienceDirect:
- Rightclick on PDF in your list of articles
- Choose "Save link as"
- Save the file
- Print out the article
SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)
Covers chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology and materials science from 1907 to today.
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NB!
All users have to get a user name and password and accept some terms to search the base. Read more about registration here
Are you registered before, you can start here. SciFinder can only be used by one person at a time.
Scopus
Reference database with links to full text. Contains about 20 000 journals, in addition to book series, conference proceedings etc. Subject areas: Natural science, physics, health, sociology.
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SocINDEX with fulltext
The world's most comprehensive sociology research database, covering sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas.
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SportDiscus
SportDiscus contains citations to, and abstracts of, articles about sport and related subjects.
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Springer
SpringerLink gives access to e-journals and e-books from the publishers Springer and Kluwer. Subject areas: Natural science, technology, medicine, social science.
SwePub
Academic publications from about 30 Swedish institutions of learning.
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SwetsWise
Access to e-journals from SwetsWise subscribed by UiS.
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Wikimedia Commons
Almost 13 millions freely usable media files (pictures, maps, audiofiles, video etc.). Most of them can be used in other works, based on a so-called Creative Commons-License
Wiley InterScience
Articles on Science and technology, Medicine, Humanities, and Social sciences. The content from the database Blackwell Synergy is now in Wiley InterScience.
WorldCat
OCLC WorldCat is a catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC member libraries
World Wide Science
Federated search in scientific databases from more than 50 countries.
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