History

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SCUP (Scandinavian University Press)
SCUP is Scandinavian University Press’s digital publishing platform for academic journals and open access research books. You can browse and read more than 32,000 quality assured articles within a range of disciplines, and new articles, issues, journals and books are continuously being added.

1814-bibliografien
Contains bibliographical references for monographs, articles from books and journals, biographies, diaries, etc, where 1814 is either the main theme, or is a key part.

Nasjonalbibliotekets nettbibliotek
Online library with books, newspapers and journals at The Norwegian National Library.

Norart
References to articles in Norwegian and Nordic journals and annals, 1980-2020.
Replaces Historisk bibliografi (Norhist) 1998-2020 .

Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)
Collects publications and other research results, and makes them openly available in a common national solution. This makes results from Norwegian research available in a single service.

International databases

JSTOR
Archive of international scientific journals in full text, mainly within humanities and social sciences. The database usually does not cover the last 3-5 years of a journal.

Citation databases

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

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Atekst, Retriever

Atekst, Retriever is a media archive with full text from a large number of Norwegian newspapers. Note! If the page asks for Retriever Login, reload the page (F5 or Ctrl+r).

Digitised Norwegian newspapers at the National Library

In The Newspaper Database of the National Library you will find a large collection of digitised newspapers from both recent and older periods. Local newspapers are also included. The collection contains newspapers dating all the way back to the 18th century. Some newspaper issues are openly available to everyone, while access to the rest can be requested. The requirement is that use is related to research or documentation purposes.

Websites

Archival material

Arkivportalen
National Norwegian search service of institutional archive catalogues.

Digitalarkivet (Digital archives)
Digitised searchable resources such as censuses, church records and emigrant protocols.

Local history

Lokalhistorie
Constructed under the direction of the Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt (Norwegian Local History Institute). Has the objective of spreading knowledge and documentation about various aspects of local history, giving access to local historical sources and providing guidance to local historical writers and principals.

lokalhistoriewiki
Website for local history encyclopaedic articles and source archive run by the Norsk lokalhistorisk institutt (Norwegian Local History Institute). Articles are written by volunteers with interest and expertise in the relevant subjects.

Sources of government information (Laws, statistics and other)

Historisk befolkningsregister (Historical population register)
Provides an overview of the population in Norway from 1800 to the present day.

Historisk statistikk (Historical statistics)
From Statistisk Sentralbyrå (Statistics Norway). Historical statistics including historical publications in pdf format, tables with time series that go back in time, by topic, historical statistical analysis articles and Norwegian censuses

Lovdata
Norwegian law database containing updated laws and central and local regulations in full text.

Stortingsforhandlinger 1814–2005
Parliamentary proceedings in full text.

Journals

BrowZine
Gives you easy access to e-journals which the Volda University College subscribes to. User guide on YouTube.

Additional resources

David Rumsey Map Collection
Contains more than 150.000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. 

HIFO - Den norske historiske forening (The Norwegian Historical Association)
HIFO works to promote Norwegian historical research and to strengthen the history subjects in higher education and the school system.

Internet Archive
Historical overview of websites that can be useful in retrieving pages that no longer exist, older versions of pages after updates, and other types of media such as books, music, and videos. 

Minner
Experience, knowledge and memories from all over Norway

Reviews in History
Covering books and digital resources across all fields of history.

Skeivt arkiv
The National Norwegian Archive for Queer History.

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