Pedagogy and education
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SCUP (Scandinavian University Press)
Scandinavian University Press’s digital publishing platform for academic journals and open access research books. You can browse and read more than 32,000 quality assured articles within a range of disciplines, and new articles, issues, journals and books are continuously being added.
Nordic Base of Early Childhood Education and Care (NB-ECEC)
Database with an overview of Nordic kindergarten research. A collaborative project between the Norwegian Ministry of Education, the Danish Evaluation Institute and the Swedish National Agency for Education.
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Atekst, Retriever
Media archive with full text from a large number of Norwegian newspapers. Note! If the page asks for Retriever Login, reload the page (F5 or Ctrl+r).
International databases
ERIC
International database of pedagogical literature. Includes literature on pedagogy and education for most subjects, topics and education levels.
Teacher Reference Center
References to articles from peer-reviewed journals in education and teaching.
Academic Search Elite
Interdisciplinary full text database with access to approximately 2000 journals, both scholarly and general.
Systematic reviews databases
Campbell Systematic Reviews
Systematic reviews and controlled studies of the impact of measures within the social field, psychology, criminology and education.
IN SUM
Systematic reviews on effects of child and adolescent mental health and welfare interventions.
Citation databases
Web of Science
Provides references to over 10,000 different journals on social sciences, humanities, technology, etc. Contains information about how many times an article have been cited. Links to full text if the library has access.
Google Scholar
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Websites
Browzine (e-journals)
A service that gives you easy access to all the e-journals that Volda University College subscribes to. In your own library in BrowZine you can add your favourites and get a good overview of what you are interested in.
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Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)
Collects publications and other research results, and makes them openly available in a common national solution. This makes results from Norwegian research available in a single service.
Laws and official documents
Lovdata
Updated laws as well as central and local regulations in full text.
Ministry of Education and Research
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
The Directorate is responsible for the development of primary and secondary education and is the executive body of the Ministry of Education and Research. Curricula.
Dictionaries
Norsk-engelsk/engelsk-norsk ordbok for begreper i grunnopplæringen (Glossary of terms in primary and secondary education, Norwegian–English / English–Norwegian)
A resource from the Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training.
Termportalen for UH-sektoren
Norwegian terminology and subject-specific concepts across a range of disciplines. Includes terms in Bokmål, Nynorsk, and English.