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Nordic databases
SCUP (Scandinavian University Press)
Scandinavian University Press’s digital publishing platform for academic journals and open access research books.
Newspaper articles:
Atekst, Retriever
Full text search in Norwegian newspapers. Online content of the newspapers also text-searchable, as well as the websites of the Norwegian municipalities. Note! If the page asks for Retriever Login, reload the page (F5 or Ctrl+r).
International databases
Academic Search Elite
Interdisciplinary full text database with access to approximately 2000 journals, both scholarly and general.
ERIC
International database of pedagogical literature. Includes literature on pedagogy and education for most subjects, topics and education levels.
JSTOR
Archive of international scientific journals in full text, mainly within humanities and social sciences. The database usually does not cover the last 3-5 years of a journal.
Citation databases
Web of Science
Provides references to over 10,000 different journals on social sciences, humanities, technology, etc. Also covers conferences. Contains information about how many times an article have been cited. Links to full text if the library has access.
Google Scholar
Search for books, journal articles, reports and other academic publications. Cited reference search.
Systematic reviews databases
Campbell Systematic Reviews
Systematic reviews and controlled studies of the impact of measures within the social field, psychology, criminology and education.
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Websites
Sources of government information (Laws ,statistics and other)
Eurostat
EU statistics in full text.
Lovdata
Updated laws as well as central and local regulations in full text.
Lovdata Pro
Subscription version of Lovdata. Includes laws, regulations, preparatory work, court orders, statements, resolutions, circulars and legal literature. Also provides access to EEA/EU legal sources and other international legal sources, as well as summaries (in Norwegian) of judgments issued by the Human Rights Court.
norge.no
Gateway to digital public services.
Regjeringen.no (Government.no)
Here you will find a comprehensive overview of government documents, including Stortingsmelding (parliamentary reports) and NOU. For documents about a specific area, see the different departemental home pages.
Rettsdata
Norwegian law database including resources on laws, regulations, court orders, preparatory work, international law, professional literature, etc.
Feide-login on and outside campus for students and employees.
Statistisk sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway)
Norwegian statistics. Some publications such as reports, statistical monthly booklets, statistical annals, etc. in full text.
Stortinget (Norwegian Parliament)
Overview of issues for consideration, proposals, minutes, resolutions, etc.
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.
The Survey bank
Sikt's research data catalogue.
Humord (Thesaurus for the humanities and social sciences)
Can help you find relevant search terms/subject headings for database searches. Developed by the University of Oslo Library.