Subject guide:

Faculty of Landscape and Society

RECOMMENDED AND RELEVANT SOURCES

Find literature

Find books, articles, journals, dissertations, etc. in the library database Oria.

See also the complete list of journals in subscription at the NMBU University Library.

Students and staff at NMBU can access the library’s electronic resources off campus.

Databases

Selected databases. See also the complete list of databases. 

• Databases for Landscape and Society

  • Web of Science – interdisciplinary database with the main emphasis on science resources.
  • Scopus – science, technology, medicine, social sciences, citation search.
  • Statistics Norway

• Databases for International Environment and Development Studies, Noragric

  • AJOL - African Journals Online. The world's largest collection of African scientific journals. About 50% of them are digital.
  • CGSpace - research in agriculture. Contains reports, articles, presentations, videos, etc. Published by the International Livestock Research Institute.
  • CORE - Open Access Research Papers.
  • Eldis - full-text documents and organizations within environmental and development studies. Documents, organizations and news sorted by country.
  • SciELO - digital scientific journals with articles in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English. Interdisciplinary research literature from the Latin American countries as well as Spain, Portugal and South Africa.

• Databases for Public Health Science

  • Helsebiblioteket - national and free resources. Databases, electronic journals, summarized research and encyclopedias.
  • Medline (OVID)*: 1946-present. All areas of medicine, including dentistry and nursing.
  • Medline (EBSCO)*: The largest and most used database in medicine. Contains journal articles in medicine, veterinary medicine, health sciences and nursing.
  • PubMed - free access for all
  • Idunn- full text articles in journals published by the Universitetsforlaget.

• Databases for Urban and Regional Planning

  • Byggforskserien - published by SINTEF

• Databases for Property and Law

  • Idunn - full text articles in journals published by the Universitetsforlaget.
  • Lovdata Pro - Norwegian and European law sources. Students must create their own user account. The base is used as a study tool and exam aid. The license agreement applies to all employees and students at NMBU.

• Databases for Landscape Architecture

  Historical collections at NMBU, Brage etc.

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Purchase proposal

Is there a book or journal that you would like the library to purchase? Feel free to send us your purchase proposal by e-mail to biblioteket@nmbu.no.

Write and cite

Useful advice on writing and citing academic texts and referencing.