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  BIBSYS - Ask (The holding of most academic libraries in Norway)  

Useful bibliographic databases - links to full text via BIBSYSx

Arctic & Antarctic Regions

Subscribed - references to articles, books etc. on cold regions and polar areas.

  FirstSearch     Subscribed - 9 databases including WorldCat.
  GeoRef     Subscribed - geology references. Some records with deep indexing, display of images.
  SciFinder     Subscribed - chemical references, substances, reactions (environmental chemistry, geochemistry, biochemistry etc.). Please register (use your UNIS e-mail) before you start searching the first time. BIBSYSx appears when clicking the full text link. One concurrent user only - try again later if there is no access. Meanwhile, explore the useful guides (no login needed).
  Web of Science     Subscribed - index of scientific journals from 1945 till present time.
  Zoological Records     Subscribed - index of scientific literature within taxonomy and animal biology from 1978 till present time.

Full text providers/publishers - alternative access

ACS Subscribed - 38 journals/resources from the American Chemical Society - from 1996 till present time.
AGU Subscribed - about 18 geophysics/earth sciences journals - from vol. 1 till present time. Two concurrent users.
  Arctic     Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America - from 1948 till 2010.
  BioOne     Subscribed - around 70 journals mainly covering biology, from 2001 till present time.
  DOAJ     Directory of open access journals (about 6000 journals).
  GeoScienceWorld     Subscribed - 47 full text  journals within geology.
  JSTOR     Subscribed - Life Sciences Collection, more than 160 backfile journal titles.
  Lyell Collection     Subscribed - 12 journals/book series from The Geological Society of London.
  Nature     Subscribed - from 2007 till present time.
  Nature Geoscience     Subscribed - from 2008 till present time.
  NORA     Norwegian Open Research Archives.
  Science     Subscribed - from October 1996 till present time. Backfiles in JSTOR.
  ScienceDirect     Subscribed - about 2000 journals from Elsevier, Pergamon and Academic Press, from 1995 till present time. Backfiles (access from vol 1) of about 100 journals within earth and planetary sciences - also with supplements.
  SpringerLink     Subscribed - over 1200 journals, from 1997 till present time.
  SwetsWise     Subscribed - some single titles from other publishers.
  Wiley Online Library     Subscribed - about 775 titles within science, technology and medicine from 1997 till present time.

Full text encyclopædia

  CAPLEX (in Norwegian)  
  Encyclopædia Britannica Online (Subscribed)  
  Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian)  

More catalogues etc.

  bibliotek.dk (Danish catalogue)  
  British library  
  CISTI's Catalogue (Canadian catalogue)  
  Libris (Swedish catalogue)  
  Longyearbyen public library  
  Norart (Index of about 390 Norwegian periodicals and yearbooks)  
  SAMBOK (Norwegian union catalogue)  

Research documentation

  Cristin (Current research information system in Norway)  
  International Polar Year Publications Database (Please report your IPY publications)  
  Research in Svalbard  


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