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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 only
  Arctic     Journal of the Arctic Institute of North America - from 1948 till 2009
  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 2006 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
  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

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

  FRIDA (Published work in most universities in Norway)  
  International Polar Year Publications Database (IPYPD) (Report your IPY publications)  
  Research in Svalbard  


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