How to perform a basic search

Search scopes

In the search box you can choose between three different search scopes.

University of Oslo Library
When the search box is set to the University of Oslo Library, the search results will contain electronic and printed resources in the University Library's own collections.

Norwegian Academic Libraries
If you change the search scope to Norwegian Academic Libraries, your search is expanded to more Norwegian academic and research libraries.

These two search scopes also include a large index with several billion references (mostly articles, book chapters and e-books) from over 2,000 different sources, e.g. databases, publishers, institutional archives, etc.

Nasjonalt vitenarkiv
This scope searches Norwegian master's theses, dissertations, and other research results in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA). 

The results list

The search results are sorted by relevance and the items most relevant to your search appear at the top of the list. You can change the sorting to date, author or title on the right hand side of the results list, but this is recommended only when you have limited results or know exactly what you are looking for.

10 results are displayed per page, but you can change this to 25 or 50 by clicking the arrow above the results list.

For each item, the material type is indicated at the top, e.g. whether it is an article or a book. You can find options for citing, export and saving the item to the right, and you can click the three dots to see more export options.

Many electronic resources have a quicklink to the PDF directly from the results list. For those who don't, and for printed resources, click on the item you are interested in for information on where or how to obtain it.

Full display

For print documents you will under the [Get it] section find information about where it is located, specifically in which library and where on the shelf. Some libraries also have a [Find it] button that shows the shelf location in the library. If the book is on loan or not available at UiO, you can order it.

To read electronic books and articles, go to the [View it] section and click on one of the full text links.

If you have problems accessing the service, send us a message by clicking [Link not working? Contact us here]. We usually reply the same day.