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Child welfare – databases and other web resources

*In order to use this resource, you must be logged in to the Harstad University College network.

Start with these databases:
  • Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)*
    Interdisciplinary full-text database. English articles in full-text and references of a high professional level. 
  • Web of Science (ISI)*
    Covers the world's leading journals in the humanities, art, social science and technical subjects.
    Comprises three reference and citation indexes:
    • Science Citation Index Expanded
    • Social Sciences Citation Index
    • Arts & Humanities Citation Index 
If you want to read Norwegian articles, try searching these databases:
Several article bases - accessible for Harstad University College:
  • ERIC (EBSCO)* Education Resources Information Center
    Education and teaching. Full-text database, reference database.
  • ProQuest Psychology Journals
    Psychology, clinical psychology. Full-text articles and references. 
  • PsycArticles / APA*
    Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from 60 scientific journals in psychology and related subjects.
  • PsycINFO (Ovid)*
    References to articles and more in psychology and related subjects. Good supplement within the fields of psychiatry and psychology.
Article databases - open access:
  • Bibliotek.dk Article search
    Interdisciplinary article index for Danish public and academic libraries.
  • DiVA: Academic Archive On-line 
    An open access institutional research archive for Nordic universities (Swedish dominance). DiVA was developed at the Unit for Digital Publishing at the Uppsala University Library.  
  • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals 
    Free access to full-text articles from quality assured scientific journals
  • ERIC direct
  • Google Scholar
    Interdisciplinary reference database with some full-text.  
  • NORA: Nowegian Open Research Archives 
    National search service for scientific information in open institutional repositories.
  • Open-JGate 
    Comprehensive portal to open access full-text journals from around the world.
  • SveMed+  
    Reference database. Nordic health science journals in Swedish, English, Norwegian and Danish. Patient information from 2001.
Electronic books
  • Ebrary*
    Electronic books in full-text. Interdisciplinary, but with a focus on economics, social sciences, the humanities and medicine.
  • Google Books
    Global collection of e-books. Search for selected works in the full text of books. If the author's copyright is terminated, you will get access to the full text or you will get suggestions about where to loan (BIBSYSx) or purchase the book.
Web resources
Public information
Reference works
  • Abbreviations.com
    Abbrevations and acronyms 
  • Encyclopedia Britannica*
    Interdisciplinary on-line encyclopaedia. One of the world's largest and most comprehensive encyclopaedias, including the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus.
  • Ordnett* 
    Kunnskapsforlaget's blue dictionaries from Norwegian to English, German, French and Spanish.
  • Wikipedia
    On-line encyclopaedia based on voluntary contributors from around the globe.
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