Databases

To access some of the databases, you must be physically on the NPUC’s premises. If you are an employee or one of our students, you can also use our VPN solution for remote access. You can see which solution each individual database requires in the presentation below.

Read how to connect to the NPUC’s wireless network and VPN solution

A-tekst database

Archive containing articles from the daily newspapers Aftenposten (1983–), Dagbladet (1996–), Dagsavisen (2002–) and VG (1945–), as well as several other national, regional and local newspapers (as at August 2019, the database covered 350 sources).

• Full text
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)
• This resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website web.retriever-info.com (A-tekst)

Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)

Academic Search Premier is an interdisciplinary database with full-text articles from more than 3,100 periodicals, including approx. 2,700 peer-reviewed periodicals. In addition to full-text articles, the database also contains references and abstracts from more than 8,500 periodicals. The database covers areas such as the social sciences, health, education, ethics and multicultural studies.

• Full text and references
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)
• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website ebscohost.com (Academic Search Premier)

Campbell Library

The Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews contains systematic overviews of the impact of measures in the fields of education, social welfare and crime prevention. Continuously updated.

• Full text
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website campbellcollaboration.org

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (Ebsco)

Gives a broad overview of the criminology field. Abstracts of books and articles relating to policing, youth crime, crime and punishment, victim and perpetrator, prevention, criminal law, etc. Searchable back to 1968. Updated annually.

• Full text and references
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)
• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website ebscohost.com (Criminal Justice Abstracts)

DOAJ

Directory of Open Access Journals. A database containing articles from quality-controlled periodicals in the fields of research and science. Access free of charge. Covers all subject areas.

• Full text
• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website doaj.org

ERIC (Ebsco)

The Education Resource Information Center (ERIC) provides access to literature and resources relating to education. The database contains more than 317,000 full-text documents.

• Full text and references
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)

Go to the website ebscohost.com (Eric)

Google Scholar

You can search many academic areas and sources using Google Scholar. Google Scholar indexes articles from scientific periodicals and books from a large number of publishing houses and databases.

• Full text and references
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website scholar.google.com

Idunn.no

A database of Norwegian and Nordic periodicals. The periodicals cover the subjects: law, teaching, health and social work, social sciences, the humanities, economics/finance and the natural sciences.

• Full text
• Norwegian Police University College: Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)

Norwegian National Police Directorate: Access via the police network

• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website idunn.no

International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (Ebsco)

A large and comprehensive US database, with the main focus on politics and the social sciences. Contains reports, articles from periodicals and newspapers, official documents, etc. Only English language materials.

• Full text and references
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)
• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website ebscohost.com (International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center)

Juridika – legal commentaries

At Juridika, you will find Universitetsforlaget’s law journals and up-to-date commentaries on the Norwegian Penal Code of 2005, the Criminal Procedure Act, the Dispute Act, the Enforcement Act, the Road Traffic Act and the Police Use of Firearms Instructions.

• Full text
• Access with Feide login
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website juridika.no

Justitia: Polismyndighetens bibliotek och kunskapstjänst

Justitia is the Swedish police library and knowledge database. Here you can search in a large number of books and other documents on subjects related to police research in Sweden.

• Full text and references
• This resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website mikromarc.se (Polismyndighetens bibliotek och kunskapstjänst)

Lovdata Pro

The texts of laws, regulations, Supreme Court of Norway rulings, etc.
Use the Feide login to access Lovdata. Visitors to the NPUC can use Lovdata Pro – the library version, which provides full access to the resources, but no personal tools.

• Full text
• Access with Feide login

Go to the website lovdata.no

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a US, publicly funded online resource for information relating to judicial matters and criminal law.

The website contains the NCJRS Abstracts Database, which has more than 200,000 abstracts from important publications relating to law enforcement and criminal law, including books, government reports, research reports, periodicals and unpublished research. Some of the references also have links to the full-text document.

• References
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website ncjrs.gov

National Police Library (College of Policing)

The College of Policing is a professional body for everyone working across policing in England and Wales. The National Police Library contains thousands of policing books, journals, articles and online resources.

• Full text and references
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website college.police.uk

Ordnett

Ordnett.no is an online language and dictionary service that gives you access to a number of electronic dictionaries from your computer.

• Access with Feide login
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website ordnett.no

Oria

Oria is our library catalogue, where you can search our library collection, and find both physical and online litterature.

• Full text and references

Go to the website phs.oria.no

PIA (NPUC’s open institutional archive)

The NPUC’s digital archive of professional and research papers written by its students and staff. Contains bachelor and master’s degree dissertations, scholarly articles, research reports, etc.

• Full text
• The resource is searchable using Oria

Go to the website phs.brage.unit.no

Politihistorisk bibliografi

This bibliography of police history has been created by the Norsk Politihistorisk Selskap (Norwegian Police History Society). It contains over 1,100 references to documents of interest for police history.

• References
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website politihogskolen.no (Politihistorisk bibliografi)

Rettsdata

Gives access to legal commentaries and Stralex. Commentaries on Norwegian laws. Also contains law periodicals published by Gyldendal. Stralex contains rulings from Strasbourg. Use the Feide login to access Rettsdata.

• Full text
• Access with the Feide login
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website rettsdata.no

Scopus

Large bibliographic database, with the emphasis on the social sciences, science and medicine. Covers approx. 20,000 academic periodicals and other academic material.

• References and full text
• Remote access (PHS network, Eduroam, VPN)
• The resource is not searchable using Oria

Go to the website scopus.com

Searching multiple databases at the same time

The databases marked Ebsco have the same search screen. You can therefore search several of Ebsco’s databases at the same time. Click “Choose databases” when you are in a database to search several at the same time.