The library provides access to the academic literature you need.
The library has developed an open course in Canvas titled “Literature Searching.” You can access the full course in Canvas.
This digital course provides a basic introduction to literature searching and to using Oria, the library’s catalogue. We encourage you to add it to your Canvas dashboard for easy access.
The course also offers more advanced search training and guidance on the use of relevant subject databases within your field of study.
Remember that you can log in to Oria to request books that are currently on loan, or to request material that we do not have in our collection.
Do you need assistance? Please contact the subject librarian for your discipline.
As a student at UiS, you will find your reading lists in Canvas.
You can also search for reading lists in Oria.
The University Library provides a range of databases relevant to your field of study. The content of these databases varies and includes journals, formulas, legislation, and e-books, as well as music, dance, and films. In our databases, you will find most of the resources you need to complete your studies.
You can find an overview of the databases and journals to which we provide access to in Oria. Here, you will find an alphabetical list as well as an overview organized by subject area.
The library holds a small number of print journals; however, the vast majority of journals are available electronically and can be searched in Oria.
In UiS Open Journals, you will find open access journals published by UiS.
We provide access to a wide range of electronic books (e-books).
You can search for e-books in Oria. The search results will include a link to the e-book provider, where the book can be read online.
Please note that some e-book providers require you to create a personal account in order to download books. This applies to Ebook Central and EBSCO.
E-books can be read directly on screen. For some titles, there are restrictions on how much you can download or print. If you wish to download an e-book, you will need Adobe Digital Editions. This software is installed on all UiS computers. Some e-books may be downloaded without restrictions.
Open access e-books
- UiS Scholarly Publishing Services: Open access academic books, publication series, and reports published at UiS.
- The National Library of Norway – Nettbiblioteket: Books published before 2005 are openly available to Norwegian IP addresses. For books published after 2005, the following applies:
- UiS staff have access to all legal deposit material by logging in via Feide.
- Students may apply for access for eight hours at a time; however, higher education textbooks and profession-specific academic literature published within the past 20 years are excluded from the agreement.
- Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB): More than 16,000 peer-reviewed academic books available free of charge.
- Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD): Nearly five million academic theses from around the world, freely available in full text.
- Project Gutenberg: Free e-books for which copyright has expired.
At the library at Ullandhaug, we provide access to a range of printed newspapers, mostly in Norwegian. Some of them are:
- Aftenposten
- Dag og Tid
- Dagens Næringsliv
- Financial Times
- Klassekampen
- Morgenbladet
- Stavanger Aftenblad
- Vårt Land
Retriever Media Archive
The Retriever Media Archive contains the original print editions of Norwegian national, regional, and local newspapers. It includes approximately 1,300 Norwegian newspapers and other periodicals. Please note that several newspapers restrict access to newly published articles, which become available seven days after publication.
The Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA) collects publications and other research outputs and makes them openly accessible in a shared national archive.
If you are looking for dissertations and published research from other institutions, you can check out this overview of open research archives in NVA. Here you can find dissertations and research published at NTNU, The University of Agder, SINTEF and more.
All information about standards can be found on the library’s subject page for the Faculty of Science and Technology.
The library provides both print and digital dictionaries.
Our most frequently used digital dictionaries are ordbøkene.no and ordnett.no.
General works of reference:
- Britannica Online: Contains Encyclopædia Britannica, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, the Britannica Book of the Year and Britannica's Internet Guide.
- Europeana: Contains film clips, photographs, paintings, sculptures, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, archive materials and archaeological objects, provided by European cultural institutions.
Professional works of reference:
- Encyclopedia of Social Work: Contains hundreds of articles about social work, and biographical articles about important persons in the history of this subject area.
- The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics: Standard reference work within economics.
- Oxford Bibliographies - Education: A pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Every article is written and reviewed by academic experts.
- Oxford Reference Online: Books of reference in full text. Explanations of words and terms within all subjects.
Encyclopaedias from SAGE:
Suggest literature or subscriptions that the library should have in our collection, and we will consider buying it.
Master or PhD student or a researcher at UiS? Borrow a librarian for guidance and help with a literature search.
With remote access you can access our electronic resources whether you are on campus or working remotely.
