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Full text and bibliographic search on the web

Outside campus, UNIS staff and students may use the VPN to access our subscribed databases and full text. For fast access to full text, the BIBSYSx button in the bibliographic databases is recommended. If you already know the DOI number, you may use the DOI finder.

The UNIS catalogue

  BIBSYS - Ask - local holding (The library holding at UNIS)  
  BIBSYS - Ask (The entry to the full BIBSYS cat., or other parts of the catalogue)  

Useful bibliographic databases - with 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
  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

AGU journals Subscribed - geophysics/earth sciences - from vol. 1 till present time - two concurrent users - search options available
  Arctic     Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America - from 1948 till 2007
  BioOne     Subscribed - around 70 journals mainly covering biology, from 2001 till present time
JSTOR     Subscribed - Life Sciences Collection, more than 160 backfile journal titles
  Nature     Subscribed - from 2005 till present time
  NORA     Norwegian Open Research Archives
  Science     Subscribed - from October 1996 till present time
  ScienceDirect     Subscribed - about 2000 journals from Elsevier, Pergamon and Academic Press, from 1995 till present time
  SORA     Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
  SpringerLink     Subscribed - over 1200 journals, from 1997 till present time
  SwetsWise     Subscribed - some single titles from other publishers
  Wiley InterScience     Subscribed - about 380 former Blackwell titles, not the full Wiley access.

Full text encyclopædia

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

More catalogues etc.

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

Research documentation

  ERGO (European Research Gateways Online)  
  FRIDA (Published work in most universities in Norway)  
  Research in Svalbard  


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The articles can be printed or saved solely for private use or for research purposes.
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