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Full text in DUO. Includes theses, student theses and spesiale, primarily published after 2002. Advanced search also includes dissertations etc. For older theses, search BIBSYS Ask.

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This is Googles search engine for academic literature. Search will provide you with scientific material, with links to UBO's electronic resources. For search within specific subjects we recommend using the subject databases.

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Use Primo to search for specific articles, e-books, subjects etc. The database contains little Norwegian material or material within the Law area. For search within specific subjects we recommend using the subject databases.

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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - IBSS (Ovid) IBSS
IBSS indexes about 2600 social science journals and 6000 books annually.

ISI Web of Science
Citation indexing of about 12000 journals.

World Bank eLibrary
Full text database to about 6000 World bank reports, books, working papers and journals.

OECD iLibrary
Full text access to nearly all the books, journals and statistics from the OECD.

Norske og nordiske tidsskriftartikler (Norart)
References to articles from a selection of Norwegian and Nordic journals.

SciVerse
Contains the citation index Scopus and the journal database Sciencedirect.

Handbooks and encyclopedias

The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices.

Sage Geography Encyclopedias
A collection of encyclopedias in geography in full text.

Economist Intelligence Unit
Monthly reports on economic, social and political development in 187 countries.

Books

The books are shelved after the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Every book has got a metric number from 0 to 1000, with or without decimals, "304.2" for example. Within each number the books are ordered alphabetically, like "304.2 Hes". The classification system is searchable.

 

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Other resources

Geosource - important resource to get overview over the field human geography.

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Contains about 4000 detailed entries in social and behavioral sciences.

UN-Data
The statistics portal from the United Nations.

Laborsta
Labour statistics from the UN-organisation ILO.

World Bank Data Catalog
Statistics on development related subjects from the World Bank.

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