Library resources: UiS School of Business and Law

Here you’ll find links to financial, legal, statistical, and market data resources. The Library can help you with searching for literature. Through the library, you have access to research and academic resources that are useful for students and researchers at UiS School of Business and Law.

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The library has created an open course in Canvas called Literature search.

This digital course provides a basic introduction to literature search and how to use Oria, the library catalogue. Add the course to your dashboard so that you have it available.

You will also learn how to use databases that are relevant for subjects.

See the full course in Canvas here.

Check out the relevant modules:

«Modul 1: Grunnleggende litteratursøk»  

Module 3: Humanities, social sciences and pedagogy in the Canvas course

Zotero is a free and user-friendly tool that helps you insert references while you write and generates reference lists. You can use Zotero to organize your literature. When used correctly, Zotero creates properly formatted reference lists with just one click.

Zotero is integrates in Word and can also be used with LaTeX and Google Docs.

Read more about Zotero on the library websites here.

Check out the library course in Canvas about Zotero.

The library offers several services to help you get started and take care of important elements in the writing process.

Citations and APA 7

The UiS Business school usually use the citation style APA 7th.

The Citation Compass (Kildekompasset) gives examples and explanations on how to quote/cite any type of source, both in-text and in the reference list. The Citation Compass covers both APA 6th and APA 7th

Writing your thesis

You can get guidance with academic writing by student mentors. The library also offers writing groups for master's students.

You can find previous student theses in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA). You can use these as inspiration, but be aware that the grades can be from A to E.

Useful UiS resources

Academic Writing
Library classes
References and source evaluation

Other resources

PhD on Track
Search & Write

If you are starting a research project the library can help you with literature search, data mangment, useful software for reference mangment and more.

Searching for literature

If you are starting a research project and need help getting started with the literature search you can ask for a guidance session. Employees, PhD-students and master students at UiS can book individual guidance in searching and systematic searching.

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Software

We reccomend using reference management tools, and other software to help you during your researching process. The library offers workshops and support in:

  • Zotero: free and user-friendly reference managment tool.
  • NVivo: lets you process qualitative data.
  • Rayyan: screen your references for systematic reviews and more.

Useful links

Bibliometrics
Cristin
Research data and data plans
ORCID
UiS Publishing Platforms
Open Access publishing

Questions?

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If you have any questions about the library resources for the UiS School of Business and Law, please contact me and I will help you.

Book suggestions?

Suggest literature or subscriptions that the library should have in our collection, and we will consider buying it.

Suggest books

Borrow a librarian

Master or PhD student or a researcher at UiS? Borrow a librarian for guidance and help with a literature search.

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Databases and academic sources

The library has academic resources and information relevant for business school studies, which gives you access to economic data, statistics, legal sources, and market analysis.

Remember to use Remote Access to gain access to our online resources even if you are not on campus.

Eikon Datastream gives you access to a broad range on financial information, news and data around the world.

UiS students and PhD-candidates can install Refinitiv Workspace (Eikon) with DataStream on their own computer. This requires a license that you can apply for. You need to use your UiS student or employee email when applying for the license. The license is given for 14-30 days.

If there is a queue the bachelor students licenses will be reduced to 14 days.
Master and PhD candidates get the license for 30 days.
Students will be notified when they dont have access.

Go to Refinitiv Learning Center for user guides and help.

Expanded company and accounting information on Norwegian companies registered in “Brønnøysundregistrene”

Proff Forvalt provides:

  • Overall Summary of all Norwegian companies
  • Roles and relationships in business
  • Segmentation tool with export to Excel
  • E-mail notification of changes

Access to the database is password controlled. Contact the front desk in the library or send us an email to get access.

We have three licenses.

The Canvas course “First Steps in R” provides an introduction to the very first steps in using R and RStudio, tools for statistical analysis and graphics.

The course is designed for beginners with no prior experience using R.

Contact: Dora Simon

In Oria you can find an overview over relevant database for finance, management and legal resources.

Some of the databases are open access, but for most of them you’ll need UiS sign in. Use remote access if you are off campus.

Recommended databases:

  • Business Source Complete: Research articles from peer reviewed journals, articles from trade journals and business magazines, case studies, industry reports, market research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, author profiles over the most-cited authors in the database, and more.
  • EconLit with full text: The American Economic Association's electronic bibliography. Indexes economic literature from around the world. Includes i.a. articles, books, book reviews and dissertations.
  • Emerald Insight: Full text database of journals published by Emerald. Topics include management, library & information services, engineering, applied sciences, and technology.
  • NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research): Working paper series
  • RePEc (Research Papers in Economics): RePEc is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 102 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in Economics and related sciences.
  • World Bank eLibrary: The World Bank e-Library is an online, fully cross-searchable portal of over 3,900 World Bank documents. The collection consists of over 1,600 World Bank publications and over 2,300 Policy Research Working Papers.

We have many journals in the library, and you can access our digital journals with remote access. In Oria you can search for journals both by title and ISSN.

With Browzine you can easily get an overview of the journals you need, and create your own, virtual bookshelf with the journals you want to read and keep track of.

Norwegian Research Information Repository (Nasjonalt vitenarkiv (NVA) collects publications and other types of research output and makes them openly available in a new national repository.

Under Category you can choose to filter, for example, only master's theses.

Use the theses for inspiration, remember that these can have grades between A and E.

EconPapers: EconPapers provides access to RePEc, the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software. Most of the working papers and articles are available in full text, but some need a subscription. Ask the library if you need help accessing the papers. 

Classes from the library

Open Meeting: AI Is Changing the Rules. Are You Ready?

Thu. 20.08.2026

12:00-13:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Rethinking the Oil University

Mon. 24.08.2026

12:15-13:15

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 26.08.2026

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Introduction to Zotero

Wed. 02.09.2026

09:15-11:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug
Language: English

Pride café at the library

Wed. 02.09.2026

12:15-13:15

Universitetsbiblioteket

Researcher Breakfast: Why Fiction Matters in Adolescence

Thu. 03.09.2026

09:00-10:00

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

From Cowboys to Malcontents: Alienation on the American Frontier

Thu. 03.09.2026

11:15-12:15

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Crash Course Academic Writing for Students Writing in English

Tue. 08.09.2026

10:15-11:30

Kjølv Egelands hus

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 09.09.2026

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Get Better at Dating!

Thu. 10.09.2026

11:15-12:15

Universitetsbiblioteket i Stavanger, Ullandhaug

Webinar: Introduction to Zotero

Fri. 11.09.2026

09:15-11:00

Teams
Language: English

Workshop: How to use AI for learning and writing

Mon. 14.09.2026

14:15-15:15

Universitetsbiblioteket
Ullandhaug

Shut up and read: Study with us

Mon. 21.09.2026

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Find good sources: Literature search for TN students

Tue. 22.09.2026

09:15-11:00

Universitetsbiblioteket
Ullandhaug

Shut up & write for PhDs

Wed. 23.09.2026

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

Find good sources: Literature search for TN students

Thu. 24.09.2026

12:00-14:00

Teams

Introduction to Open Science and Research Data Management Planning

Tue. 29.09.2026

09:00-11:00

Teams

Shut up and read: Study with us

Wed. 30.09.2026

09:00-11:30

Universitetsbiblioteket, Ullandhaug

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