Databases and articles

Oria
Digital access to all printed and electronic resources in the Volda University College Library.

Academic Search Elite
Interdisciplinary full text database with access to approximately 2000 journals, both scholarly and general.

BMJ Best Practice
Medical and health-related reference source for primary and specialist health services.

BrowZine  - your personal magazine shelf
BrowZine is a service that gives you easy access to e-journals which the Volda University College subscribes to. User guide on YouTube.

Campbell Collaboration
Systematic reviews of the impact of measures within the fields of education, social welfare and crime prevention.

Cinahl
International article database for health sciences with an emphasis on nursing. Good source for qualitative research and material on patient experiences. Full Text.

Cochrane Library
Evidence-based medicinal research on the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions. It provides objective information on the latest medical treatments and is designed to facilitate the choices that doctors, patients, policy makers and others face in health care.

Epistemonikos
Epistemonikos is a collaborative, multilingual database of systematic reviews relevant for health-decision making. The database is maintained by systematically searching electronic databases and other sources for relevant systematic reviews and overviews of reviews.

Google Scholar
Search for books, journal articles, reports and other academic publications.

Helsebiblioteket (The Norwegian Electronic Health Library)
Health Sciences databases and journals.

ICD-10
ICD is the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, published by WHO (World Health Organization). There is a Norwegian version that is maintained by The Norwegian Directorate of eHealth – https://finnkode.ehelse.no/

Idunn
Norwegian full text database with journal articles on many subjects.

IN SUM
Systematic reviews on effects of child and adolescent mental health and welfare interventions.

MEDLINE (medicine, nursing, dentistry, health care, preclinical subjects)

NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives 
National search engine for scholarly information in open institutional archives.

Norart
References to articles in Norwegian and Nordic journals and annals, 1980-2020.

OTseeker
An occupational therapy database that contains abstracts of systematic reviews, randomised controlled trials and other relevant resources.

PEDro
Randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

PTSDpubs
Bibliographic database providing access to the worldwide literature on PTSD and other mental health consequences of traumatic events.

PubMed
References to journal articles in medicine, nursing and other health subjects.
Same content as Medline (Ovid), but with other search interfaces.

PubPsych
Free information retrieval system for psychological resources.

REHABDATA
Database on disability and rehabilitation, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center.

SAGE Premier
Full-text access to approx. 650 scholarly journals in many diverse fields of study including education, criminology, media studies and sociology.

ScienceDirect
Elsevier's leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature giving access to e-journals within physical sciences and engineering, life sciences, health sciences, social sciences and humanities.

Social Care Online
British database for social work. Covers research, public documents, journal articles, etc.

The Survey Bank
Surveybanken (the Survey Bank) contains research data from the social sciences, humanities, and medical and health research. You can search for several thousands of questions/variables across different surveys going back to 1957.

SveMed+ 
Nordic database for medicine and health. Note! From January 2020, the database base will no longer be updated. 

Taylor & Francis
We subscribe to following electronic journal packages: