Articles and databases
The library has a large number of databases where you can search for different types of publications, such as academic articles.
In our subject guides we recommend databases for your particular subject. If you are not sure which database is relevant to your search, you can use the library search engine OneSearch. When you use OneSearch you will get hits from most of our available databases.
[OneSearch] = The entire or large parts of the database can be accessed though OneSearch.
(See PDF file with "Searchability in OneSearch" for details.)
Several publishers have made resources available to meet the difficulties caused by the corona virus. We have gathered a selection of resources here.
ACM Digital Library [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
The database covers mainly the areas of computer programming and IT. Contains full text articles from all journals and newsletters published by the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), Conference proceedings as well as a large number of references to literature from other publishers in the field concerned.
ACS (American Chemical Society)
Article database (full text)
The database includes 38 scholarly journals in full text format which have been published by the prestigious American Chemical Society, together with the news magazine Chemical and Engineering News Online (C&EN). The agreement provides access to the ACS Legacy Archives, which includes all the ACS's journals from vol. 1 up until 1995 together with ACS Web Editions, with published years from 1996 onwards.
AIP (American Institute of Physics) [OneSearch]
Access to a number of journals in fulltext from American Institute of Physics, for example Applied Physics Letters, Chaos, Journal of Mathematical Physics and Journal of Applied Physics.
Alvin
Platform for digitized collections and digital cultural heritage material from university libraries and other cultural heritage institutions, including Linnaeus University. Here you will find, for example writers and other personal archives, advertising posters, history of medicine, portraits, photos from polar expeditions, botanical posters, letters and sketchbooks. Most of the material can be downloaded and used for free.
Annual Reviews [OneSearch]
Annual Reviews offers comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for more than 40 different disciplines, from which Lnu subscribes to the following 7 titles:
AR of Biochemistry - Biomedical Engineering - Ecology, Evolution and Systematics - Marine Science - Microbiology - Plant Biology - Psychology
The Lnu:s access includes current year and at least three years of backfiles.
APS (American Physical Society)
Access to a number of journals in fulltext from American Physical Society, including Physical Review and Physical Review Letters. Access is normally given from volume 1 and so this also includes PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
Arkiv digital
Arkiv digital is a swedish database for genealogy. Username and password is required - contact the library for access.
Link to Arkiv digital
Artikelsök [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to Swedish journals and newspapers. The database covers material from 1979 onwards.
ASM (American Society for Microbiology) [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Covering 15 journals in microbiology. The collection contains titles such as Journal of Virology. Full text from volume 1 of all titles.
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts) [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References from more than 500 journals in the areas of the social sciences, mainly in the health sciences, nursing, geriatric care, social work, psychology and education.
ATLA Religion Database with Serials [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
The database is produced by the American Theological Library Association (ATLA) and is considered the top database in religion, theology, and related disciplines. It contains references to nearly 2 million records from journals, essays, books, etc. ATLA Serials contains full-text articles from over 3000 journals.
BDSL (Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft)
Reference database - German language and comparative literature
References to books, articles, essays, papers and reviews etc in German language and comparative literature, from 1985 onwards.
BMJ Journals [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
BMJ Journals includes approximately 25 journals in medicine and health. The collection gives access to full text from all years. Some of the titles goes back several decades and perhaps the most famous of the titles, BMJ - British Medicine Journal - back to start year 1840!
Brill Journals [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
More than 250 journal titles mainly within humanities but also law, international law and public law. Full text from 2000.
BrowZine
Journal database
Read the library's electronic journals on your phone, tablet or directly on the web. With BrowZine, you can search among most of the library's journals, collect your favourite magazines in their own bookshelf, save and read articles.
BSU (Business Source Ultimate) [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Articles in full text format from more than 3000 journals in the fields of economics and business. Approximately half of the titles are peer-reviewed and the material also includes in certain cases very early years of publication. The BSU also includes corporate information such as industrial reports, market analyses and working papers. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Cambridge Journals [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Articles from more than 200 peer-reviewed journals published by Cambridge University Press and a number of scholarly societies. The contents cover several subject areas including not only social sciences but also the humanities, engineering and technology, medicine and the natural sciences.
Cell Press [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
Cell Press gives access to following 14 leading journals within Science: American Journal of Human Genetics - Biophysical Journal - Cell - Cell, Host & Microbe - Cell Metabolism - Cell Stem Cell - Chemistry and Biology - Current Biology - Development Cell - Immunity - Molecular Cell - Neuron - Structure.
Access is available from 1995 to July 1 2018. You can also find these journals in Science Direct
Cinahl with Full Text [OneSearch]
Database for journals in nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and closely-related subject areas. The database also includes references from books, PhD theses and conference proceedings. References are from 1981 onwards. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Cochrane Library [OneSearch]
Database - Health and Nursing Care (abstracts + full text)
Made up of a collection of databases within the health and nursing care sectors. Contains a large amount of systematic overviews of the literature ie studies which describe, summarise and evaluate the available documentation relating to specific treatments of health-related problems. Technology evaluations and clinical tests can also be accessed from here.
Communication Abstracts
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to material in the fields of communication and mass media obtained from journals, reports and books etc from numerous publishers from 1977 onwards. The contents cover subject areas such as advertising, marketing, communication theory, journalism, PR, radio and TV etc
Criminal Justice Abstracts [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
Contains a large number of references to journals and other publications within the subject area of criminology. Information can be found on crime tendencies, crime prevention initiatives, police and the law courts. The database also contains to a certain extent abstracts from 1968 onwards. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Dawsonera [OneSearch]
Gateway for e-books
Dawsonera is a platform for e-books in English. You may read the books online or download them. Dawsonera requires login, both from campus and from home.
De Gruyter Online [OneSearch]
The database includes journals within humanities, social sciences and mathematics from 1995 onwards.
Dewey Online (Past Masters)
Dewey Online from Past Masters the following electronic works:
The Collected Works of John Dewey, 1882-1953 (38 vol.)
The Correspondence of John Dewey, 1871-1952 (4 vol.)
Dewey: Lectures, 2nd Release (2 vol.)
DiVA (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet)
Portal - Research publications and student essays
PhD dissertations, other research publications and student essays from some 30 Swedish universities and university colleges as well as Linnaeus University. The majority of student essays as well as a considerable amount of research information are available in full text format.
DOAJ
Database covering full text publications (full text)
A list covering several thousand so-called "Open Access Journals" in many subjects and various languages. The contents of the newspapers are often searchable at article level and in the majority of cases available in full text format. The compilation has been made by Lund University and the service contains general information as well as general information for users relating to the concept of "Open Access".
Ebook central [OneSearch]
Gateway for e-books (full text)
Most titles can only be read by one person at a time. A small number of the books may be downloaded.
EBSCO [OneSearch]
EBSCO is a database host that includes several different databases. See below. To search all databases that UB has access to via EBSCO, use the link below. Note, however, that some functions specific to each database are lost when you search all databases at the same time. To fully utilize the functionality of each database search them individually, see the database list.
All databases from EBSCO
ATLA, Regional business news, Business Source Ultimate, CINAHL, MEDLINE, Communication Abstracts, Criminal Justice Abstracts, FSTA, LISTA, RILM, SPORTDiscus.
EBSCO e-Book Collection
Some titles can be read by an unlimited number or users but some can only be read by 1-3 users simultaneously. Most titles can be downloaded for seven days at the most.
Eikon (Datastream)
Eikon from Thomson Reuters is a broad database that consists of global economic and financial data for real time and historical analysis – equity prices, equity indices, company information, macroeconomic indicators, investment analyses, fixed income, bonds, fundamentals and so on. Eikon is integrated with Excel, Word and PowerPoint for downloading data and creating dynamic models, charts, tables and reports. Eikon enables you to conduct static and time-series analysis of companies, markets, securities and macroeconomic activities. Eikon includes e.g. Worldscope, I/B/E/S Estimates, Datastream Economics, Reuters News, Fundamentals (reported and standardized), ESG Data, Foreign Exchange & Money Markets, StarMine Analytics and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Eikon is installed on three computers at the University Library in Växjö. Booking is possible via Time Edit for Växjö.
Link to Eikon (Only information about the database.)
Emerald [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
Covers material from peer-reviewed journals within economics and marketing but also to a certain extent library and information science. The database also includes abstracts and reviews of articles from a number of additional journals in corporate governance and business.
Via Emerald you can also gain access to the publisher's e-books in the Business, Management and Economic Collection and the Social Sciences Collection, published up until 2013. These can be searched along with the publisher's journals.
EmiWeb
EmiWeb is an web-based archive or database containing information about millions of Swedish emigrants to USA and other countries
Encyclopaedia Britannica [OneSearch]
Digital encyclopedia. Encyclopædia Britannica but also Merriam-Websters Collegiate dictionary and thesaurus.
ERIC (Educational Resource Information Center) [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to educational science literature from 1966 onwards. The contents have been obtained from a number of journals, conferences, PhD theses, reports from public authorities etc. Parts of the material are available directly in full text format and through further linking to the University's journals, further full texts can be reached. The database includes a thesaurus with subject words and there is a possibility to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Essential Science Indicators
Statistics and data about academic publishing. Provides information about trends and the impact of publications, countries, institutions and individuals. Based on citation data from Web of Science.
Fachportal Pädagogik (German Education Portal)
Gateway for German education
The gateway is a central point of departure for literature searches within German educational science. The gateway provides opportunities to search not only literature but also academic departments and researchers within the subject area in question. With regards to literature, the gateway provides mainly references but there are also many links to full text sources. Where full text is missing, information is provided as to how the literature in question can be accessed.
FAR Online
Database - economic and business information (full text)
Information relating to taxes, company law, accounting and auditing etc from FAR (the Swedish Institute of Authorized and Approved Accountants). Contains information about laws, preparatory work, directives, legal cases, documents and the journals Balans, Resultat and Skattenytt and also FAR's English dictionary
FBS (The Folke Bernadotte Collections)
Folke Bernadotte Academy has collected and digitalized documentation from Sweden's participation in international peace operations. All Swedish peace operations since 1956 are included and the material is available free of charge. You can search the database through the University Library and do not need your own login and password.
Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
The database is an important resource for research and teaching in film, television and related disciplines. The database includes about 400 magazines, of which 120 are in full text.
Forest Science
Reference database (with certain full text links)
Contains references to literature on forestry and forest management. Subjects included are ecology, diseases and characteristics of trees, production and marketing of forestry products and references include articles, books, conference proceedings and reports.
Författningshandbok Online
Regulations in health and medical care (for Sweden).
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) [OneSearch]
Portal for e-books
Comprises approx. 100 reference works from Gale Cengage Learning. The titles cover more than 15 different subject areas such as the humanities, social sciences, engineering / technology and the natural sciences. Coverage varies from single volumes up to titles with 10 or more volumes.
GET Geodata
Database - digital maps
Appropriate users at Lnu now have access to geographical data from Lantmäteriet through the web tool GET (Geographical Extraction Tool). Users can download reasonable amounts of data to their own computers.
Google Scholar
Search engine - scholarly publications
Via Google Scholar it is possible to get access to very large quantities of scholarly literature from all types of sources. It is possible to find the contents of virtually all the electronic journals which the library subscribes to (NB obtaining access to a full text via this source depends on whether the library has a valid subscription or not. Google Scholar additionally indexes publications in DiVA and a number of scholarly free literature. Search results are as usual ranked in order of relevance by Google.
Hit Songs Deconstructed
Contains:
1. The Hit Song Deconstructed Report
Provides insight into the inner-workings of a current chart-topping hit. Each report includes a combination of commentary, charts, graphs, and notation.
2. Hit Song Deconstructed Videos
These videos take gives a section-by-section walkthrough of the songwriting and production techniques used to craft a chart-topping hit.
3. The IMMERSION Searchable Database
Updated weekly as songs enter the Billboard Hot 100 Top 10, this database houses proprietary data for the compositional characteristics of those songs
4. The Quarterly Trend Report
Delivers a concise, data-driven snapshot of Billboard Hot 100 Top 10 compositional and industry trends.
Holdings
Holdings is a database that covers ownership and flows on the Swedish stock market, with interactive tools for analysis.
The database covers a long history of all listed companies in Sweden. It also contains transparency data, liquidity data, broker statistics, short selling data, corporate governance data, as well as self-produced articles.
LNU offers students and staff access to Holdings from Modular Finance. Through the school network students and staff have access to the database for studies and research. Each user needs to create an individual account by filling in this form: https://www.holdings.se/public/university.html. Contact support@holdings.se for other inquiries.
Human Kinetics
Database with journals in fitness, exercise, coaching and sport. All journals from this publisher is included.
IEEE Xplore [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
Abstracts and full text access to IEEE and IET journals, conference reports and standards mainly within the subject areas of electronics, electrical engineering and computer science. Contains over 2 million documents published from 1913 onwards.
InfoTorg Företag
Database - company information
InfoTorg Företag is a database with swedish company information. The database contains corporate information, annual accounts, key ratios, annual report, articles of association, tax registration etc.
InfoTorg Juridik
Database - legal information
Legal precedents, directives and parliamentary publications. Judgments from Swedish courts. European law (including EUR-Lex), in addition to references to legal literature and journals.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) [OneSearch]
IBSS is a reference database in the social sciences. It includes references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters. The material dates back to 1951 and is continuously updated with approximately 100,000 new records each year. The database mainly provides abstracts for journal articles but it also includes links to an increasing number of full text articles.
Link to International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
Journal Citation Reports
Journal database
Contains information about and evaluation of scholarly journals with the help of citation data eg impact factors etc. In total some 12,000 different journals mainly in the natural sciences, engineering and social sciences.
JSTOR [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Older journal editions from several hundred leading academic publishers within the majority of subject areas. In general it is the case that a title is available from the first year of publication onwards with exceptions for the very latest publication years. The library of Linnaeus University has access o the following collections:
Arts & Science I-XI, together with Life Sciences, in total more than 1500 journals.
Juno
Database - Legal information
Information pertaining to the Swedish statute book with in-depth comments from Norstedts juridik relating to the Criminal Law, Parents and Guardians Act, New Social Acts, the Police Act, The Swedish Code of Judicial Procedure, Public Access to Information and Secrecy Act and The Swedish Constitution and more.
In addition Juno contains a great deal of legal information eg SFS, preparatory work, case-law, EU Law and NJA II.
KLG (Kritisches Lexikon zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur)
Database - German comparative literature
Information about German literature and German authors primarily active during the postwar period. The service requires a password which can be obtained from the University Library's information desk.
Landguiden
Electronic encyclopedia / reference work
Published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs and contains information on all the countries of the world as well as some autonomous regions. Information includes various aspects of the country in question and there are also maps and possibilities to compare statistics between countries.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
This book series from Springer contains over 8,000 book titles published from1997 and forward. The content has a focus on Computer Science with subdivisions such as Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics. The series is also known to follow new developments in these fields. Lecture Notes also contain a lot of titles in Informatics, Mathematics, Life Sciences and Engineering.
Leisure Tourism
Reference database
International reference database covering tourism, leisure, recreation and sports. Contains references and abstracts from journal articles, reports, conference proceedings and books from 1976 to present. Also, a growing number of full-text articles within the same subject areas.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
LLBA is a reference database in linguistics and related disciplines. The database covers most aspects of the study of language including phonetics, syntax and semantics. It holds abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers. The material dates back to 1973.
LISA (Library and Information Science Abstracts) [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References from journals, books, PhD dissertations and conference proceedings within library and information science. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
LISTA
Reference database (with certain full text links)
Contains references from journals, books, research reports and conference proceedings within the subjects of library and information science. References are from the mid 1960s onwards and cover areas such as classification, cataloguing, book and author information, information management, bibliometry and other publication questions. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
MathSciNet [OneSearch]
Reference database
Database from the American Mathematical Society which contains references to international mathematics research from the 1940s onwards. The database includes more than 2 million references and provides good information about new journal titles and citation frequencies in the field.
Mediearkivet
Article database (full text)
Includes full text from a large number of Swedish daily newspapers and magazines such as Aftonbladet, Svenska dagbladet, Göteborgs-Posten, Sydsvenska Dagbladet, Dagens nyheter, Veckans Affärer and Läkartidningen. Articles are available from the day of publication.
MEDLINE [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
Medline is the leading information source in the subject area of medicine and contains a large number of references in medicine, nursing, care, odontology, health and nursing care, psychiatry etc. References come from some 5000 journals in several languages relating to the subject area and go as far back as to the mid 19th Century.
Nearly all (99%) of the titles in MEDLINE are peer reviewed, no peer reviewed limiter is necessary. ProQuest UI offers this functionality, but its usage with the MEDLINE database can lead to unexpected and even incorrect results, since MEDLINE does not have any function where information about Peer Review exists.
MLA (Modern Language Association)
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References from journals, books and PhD dissertations. The main emphasis is on language in areas such as linguistics, semantics, translation, rhetoric and stylistics but there are a number of references to literary criticism, art, film studies etc. English language material dominates the collection but there some 60 other languages represented. The agreement also includes the MLA Directory of Periodicals, an extensive list of journals within the language / linguistics area. It is possible to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Nationell ArkivDatabas (NAD)
NAD publishes information about archives and archival holdings at the Swedish National Archives, municipal and regional archives, archives of popular movements and associations, trade and industry and archives of museums and libraries etc
Naxos Music Library [OneSearch]
Database - streamed music online
Music from approximately 40,000 records, the equivalent of more than 550,000 tracks. The major part of the database is made up of classical music but there is also jazz, folk music and world music available. The contents have been published by the record company Naxos as well as large number of other record companies. The service includes a number of other resources for people interested in music such as handbooks, dictionaries, libretti etc.
NBER [OneSearch]
Working papers (full text)
Thousands of working papers in economics from 1973 onwards. National Bureau of Economic Research is an American non-profit research organization working for a better understanding of how the economy works.
NE (Nationalencyklopedin)
General encyclopedia / reference work which contains the entire printed version of the NE in full text including dictionaries (Swedish and English) and atlas.
NE:s dictionaries (Nationalencyklopedin)
Contains 7 bilingual dictionaries, NE:s swedish dictionaries and Lexin dictionaries.
OneSearch
OneSearch is an all-in-one-search service for all collections of full text articles and books at the university library.
Oxford Art Online [OneSearch]
Electronic reference work / encyclopedia - Art
The University Library has access to Grove Art Online, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics and The Oxford Companion to Western Art.
Oxford Journals [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Scholarly journals in full text format within the humanities, social sciences, law, mathematics, physics, biology, chemistry and medicine. All journals published by Oxford University Press, many in cooperation with academic societies and international organizations.
Oxford Music Online [OneSearch]
Electronic encyclopedia / reference work - Music
The University Library has access to The Oxford Companion to Music, The Oxford Dictionary of Music and Grove Music Online containing:
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz
- The New Grove Dictionary of Opera
- The Norton Grove Dictionary of Women Composers
- The Grove Dictionary of American Music
- The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments
PAIS (Public Affairs Information service) [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
Contains more than 600 000 references to journal articles, books, official documents, research reports, conference proceedings etc mainly within the following subject areas: economics, business administration, political science, international relations, law, sociology, demography and statistics. The database contains publications from some 120 countries from 1971 onwards. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Popfakta
Popfakta allows you to search among the releases of Swedish popular music that are available in Svenskt Rockarkiv (Swedish Rock Archives). In the database you will find “everything and everyone that play a part in the history of Swedish popular music".
Predatory reports
Predatory reports is a tool to help researcher avoid predatory journals. Specialists analyze a number of indicators to help keep academia protected from exploitative operations.
Project MUSE [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Contains journal articles in full text format mainly within the humanities and social sciences. Comprises some 600 scientific publications published by American university publishers. The University Library has access to the standard collection.
PROLA (Physical Review Online Archive)
Article database (full text)
Archive for the American Physical Society's publications in the natural sciences, engineering and technology. The archive also includes the journal Physical Review in full text from the first year of its publication in 1893 as well as Reviews of Modern Physics (from 1929) and Physical review letters (from 1958).
PsycINFO [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to journal articles, books, PhD dissertations and research reports within psychology and related subjects such as psychiatry, sociology, nursing, education and learning and anthropology. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
PubMed [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text)
Almost 20 million references to articles in medicine, biomedicine, odontology, nursing etc.
Regs4ships
Regs4ships is a database containing important maritime literature, including publications and regulations from IMO, Flag States and other authorities in the maritime industry e.g. EU, ILO, WHO + more.
Riksarkivet (The National Archives)
Search in the National Archives' digital archives, indexes and databases. You can also search for information about archives and archival institutions in Sweden.
You can access the National Archives Database which contains information about archives in Sweden. You also have access to the pictures and databases of the Digital Research Room, the most extensive digital archives in Sweden which contain church archives, land registers, maps, tax registers, army rolls and inventories of estates. Currently, over 70 million pictures are publicly available.
RILM Abstracts of Music Literature with Full Text
Music studies references from international newspapers, books, catalogues, conference proceedings, PhD dissertations, festschrifts etc. As well as music studies, there are also references to music therapy, film, dance, theatre, performance and interdisciplinary studies in music. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
S-Wopec (Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics)
Databas - Working Papers (full text)
Working papers in a total of 50 different series and from more than 25 Nordic institutions such as the Stockholm School of Economics, Copenhagen Business School and Växjö University.
SAGE Journals Online [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Contains academic journals in full text within the social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, technology and medicine, all published by SAGE Publications. Access to full text begins in general from 1999 onwards but for a number of titles we have access to all publications from year one.
SAGE Knowledge Online [OneSearch]
Portal for ebooks
Comprises approx. 180 reference works from the SAGE publisher, the majority in civics with the main area of emphasis in psychology, sociology, political science, education, media and criminology. There are also a number of titles on evaluation and research methods.
Sage Research Methods
Sage Research Methods contains 750 research methodology titles and approximately 500 case studies in social sciences, but also some videos and articles.
SCB (Statistiska centralbyrån)
Database - Swedish statistics
Extensive statistics relating to a large number of Swedish social sectors including so-called official statistics, produced not only by the central office of Statistics Sweden as well as a number of other public authorities responsible for the production of statistics.
SCB:s branschnyckeltal
Database - statistics
Contains economical and financial statistics and indicators based on annual surveys of a large number of companies and sectors within industry, construction and the service sectors in Sweden.
Science Direct [OneSearch]
Article database (abstracts + full text)
Includes more than 2000 journal titles within the subject areas of biology, chemistry, medicine, social sciences, economics, business and engineering. Via Science Direct, access may be obtained to a number of licenced reference works / encyclopedias, such as Encyclopedia of Public Health and International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences.
Titles are accessible from 1995 to July 1 2018.
SciFinder
SciFinder contains literature mainly on chemistry, but also on biomedical sciences, engineering, materials science, agriculture and environmental science. To access SciFinder you must register an account.
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SciFree
With SciFree Journal Search Tool you can search for journals offering open access publication. The tool is for researchers who want to know what journals offer open access publishing without an, or with a discounted, article processing charge (APC).
Scopus [OneSearch]
Scopus is a multidiciplinary abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, features smart tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Covers over 21 000 journals within the subject areas of science and technology, medicine, social sciences and humanities.
If Scopus doesn't work in Internet Explorer 11: Use compatibility mode or another web browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome.
SIS standards
SIS standards - database for standards
In SIS standards you have access to a number of standards. Selection is made in the dialogue between the University Library and the university's users. The content of the standards are continuously updated.
Sketch Engine
Sketch Engine contains 500 ready-to-use corpora in 90+ languages, each having a size of up to 30 billion words to provide a truly representative sample of language. Its algorithms analyze authentic texts of billions of words (text corpora) to identify instantly what is typical in language and what is rare, unusual or emerging usage.
Click on Log in - and then click on "Institutional login" to log in with your lnu account.
SND's national research data catalogue
In SND’s national research data catalogue you can search almost two thousand listed studies in a variety of subject areas. You may find everything from survey data to biological sample data, as well as study collections such as SHARE (Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe), the SOM surveys (Society, Opinion, Media), and VALU (Swedish exit poll surveys).
The SND research data catalogue describes data that are accessible in the catalogue itself, as well as data accessible via another portal or actor. Some data can be accessed via direct download, whereas others need to be ordered. However, all of the listed data can be used at no cost.
Social Science Premium Collection [OneSearch]
Reference database with some fulltext
A portal for approximately 15 databases from ProQuest. Subjects include sociology, social work, political science and criminology. Reference database with som fulltext.
Social Services Abstracts
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to academic journals, PhD dissertations, books, conference proceedings etc mainly within the fields of social work and closely related areas such as social policy, social welfare, gerontology and health and nursing care. Start 1979. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Sociological Abstracts [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References to 1800 international newspapers, PhD dissertations, books and conference proceedings within the subject of sociology and closely-related fields from 1952 onwards. The total number of references is very large and includes at present more than 900,000 items. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.
Sondera
Sondera has been discontinued
The Royal Library's and the National Archives' search service Sondera was discontinued at the turn of the year 2019-2020. The content found in Sondera is searchable in the three separate services:
Libris
Svensk Mediedatabas (SMDB)
Nationell ArkivDatabas (NAD)
SPORT Discus [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References in sports science within the subjects of sports medicine, physiology, coaching, sports psychology, health sciences, training, nutrition, doping, tourism etc. Contains more than one million items in certain cases going back to 1800. The contents have been obtained from international journals, books, conference proceedings and PhD dissertations.
Springer Link [OneSearch]
Article database/Gateway for e-books (full text)
Includes approx. 2,000 scholarly journals mainly within health, medicine, natural sciences, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and computer science. There are however also many titles in the field of law as well as the humanities. Access to full text in most cases starts from 1997 onwards. The database includes access to approx. 5,000 e-books in full text form within the subjects of computer science, web design and mathematics.
Statista
Statista contains over a million different statistical compilations in more than 80000 different topics. Statista retrieves data from 18000 different sources and combines financial data, consumer insight, surveys and demographic trends. Data can be
SveMed+ [OneSearch]
Reference database - Medicine
References to Nordic articles in the medical area, of which a significant proportion are of a popular science nature. References cover the periods 1978 and 1982-2019 and additionally include biomedicine patient information and non-clinical aspects of health and nursing care.
Svensk Byggtjänst
Svensk Byggtjänst is the leading information company of the Swedish building sector. The portal gives access to a number of resources such as information and news about building material and work processes and e-books about legal issues that concern the building sector.
According to an agreement with Svensk Byggtjänst, Linnaeus University students have free access to the online resources of Svensk Byggtjänst. In order to access the resources, students will have to register and activate an account, which can be done by following the links below.
Registration and activation has to be done for each academic year.
Svenska Dagstidningar
The database Svenska Dagstidningar includes all Swedish newspapers from 2014 onwards. New material is added continuously, including older publications as well as new material from papers that are still published. A newspaper becomes available in the database 2-4 months after publication.
You can search all articles from home and read articles that are over 115 years old. Newer articles are copyright protected and can only be accessed from specific computers. This service is now available at the University Library, on one computer in Kalmar and one in Växjö. You are welcome to ask at the information desk about the location of these computers.
Swedish Media Database (SMDB)
The Swedish Media Database (SMDB) is a search service for the audiovisual collections at the National Library of Sweden (KB). The database contains information about TV, radio, video, movies, CDs and multimedia.
The SMDB covers most Swedish broadcasts and publications since 1979, but also contains older material.
Swedish WebDewey
Swedish translation of DDK (Dewey Decimal Classification). Password
is required - contact the library for access.
Svenskt Rockarkivs artikeldatabas
Svenskt Rockarkiv is a federation and music archive that aims to gather Swedish popular music history. The article database contains articles about artists and groups, both Swedish and international. If you want to take part of the articles in their entirety, they are available in Svenskt Rockarkiv's premises in Hultsfred.
SwePub [OneSearch]
Reference database
SwePub makes it possible to search among articles, conference papers, dissertations etc. published at Swedish universities. Use SwePub for an overview of what is published in your research area, to get titles in full text, abstracts and citations.
Taylor & Francis [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Includes collections of Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) och Science & Technology (S&T) primarily in the subject areas Education, Behavioural Science, Arts & Humanities, Politics, International Relations & Area Studies, Engineering Computing & Technology, Environmental & Agriculture. Access to articles from 1997 to present.
Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center is a reference database with references to 300 peer-reviewed journals. Topics covered include Best Practices, Curriculum Development, Literacy Standards, Pedagogical Research, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Science & Mathematics, School Administration and more.
Ulrichsweb
Journal database
List and description of more than 300,000 international journals within a number of subject areas. For each journals there is a detailed listing of information such as language, periodicity, contact information, first year of publication, publisher, ISSN etc. The journal's scholarly status (eg peer review etc) and information relating to the selected subject area, where the articles are indexed and can be purchased etc is also included.
UR Access
Database - Radio & TV-programmes
Includes access to all of Sveriges Utbildningsradios programmes.
Visible Body
The database includes intuitive, detailed and quality assured anatomy resources available online as well as apps for tablets and smartphones. Visible Body resources are 3D interactive tools to quickly generate and work with anatomical views.
Contains: Human Anatomy Atlas, Muscle Premium, Skeleton Premium, Heart and Circulatory Premium, och Physiology Animations.
To download the apps you need to be at Lnu and be connected to Eduroam. Click the link below and choose which app to download via App Store or Google play. Once the apps are downloaded you can use them outside the network or offline. You need to access them via the Lnu network at least every 150 days to continue using them offline.
Web of Science [OneSearch]
Reference database /Citation index
Makes up a shared gateway for searches of the following citation indices:
- Science Citation Index
- Social Science Citation Index
- Arts & Humanities Citation index
the following databases are also included:
- Emerging Sources Citation Index
- Korean Journal Index
- Medline
- Russian Citation Index
- SciELO
Wiley Online Library [OneSearch]
Article database (full text)
Contains all journals on the Wiley online library platform. Access to full text is given from 1997 onwards.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [OneSearch]
Reference database (with certain full text links)
References in the social sciences, mainly within political science and closely-related subjects such as international relations, welfare systems, environmental questions and administration. The database includes references from 1975 onwards of which a large proportion have been published outside of the USA. The possibility exists to limit searches to peer-reviewed articles.