Databases
As a student or employee at the Norwegian Police University College (NPUC), you have access to the databases we subscribe to. Here, you can find journal articles, newspaper articles, legal texts, and annotated editions. Employees in the Norwegian police service can contact us for access.
Police sciences
Justitia: Polismyndighetens bibliotek och kunskapstjänst
Justitia is the Swedish police service's library and knowledge database. Here, you can find articles, books, and other materials on police research in Sweden.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
National Police Library (College of Policing)
The College of Policing is a national professional body for everyone working in the police in England and Wales. In their National Police Library, you can search thousands of books, journals, and online resources in police sciences.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Oria
Oria is the Norwegian police university college's library search service, where you can find all the literature we have available for loan, as well as results from several of the databases we subscribe to.
- Content: Full text and references.
PIA (Politihøgskolens institusjonelle arkiv)
No longer in use - all old and new research will be published in the Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA).
You can read more about NVA under the interdisiplinary databases.
The Police Historical Bibliography
The Police Historical Bibliography from the Norwegian Police Historical Society. The bibliography is downloadable, and you will find articles, books and other police historical sources.
- Content: References.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Go to politihogskolen.no (The Police Historical Bibliography)
Law
Juridika - Annotated editions
On Juridika, you’ll find Universitetsforlaget’s legal journals and updated legal annotations, including annotated editions of the Penal Code 2005, Criminal Procedure Act, Dispute Act, Enforcement Act, Road Traffic Act, and Police Weapon Instructions.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Lovdata Pro
Contains laws, regulations, Supreme Court rulings, comments, and legal literature. Lovdata Pro allows for adding comments, collecting selected texts, and receiving notifications.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
A U.S. government-funded online resource for legal and criminal justice information. The NCJRS Abstracts Database contains over 200,000 abstracts of key publications on law enforcement and criminal justice, including books, government reports, research papers, journals, and unpublished research.
- Content: References.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Rettsdata
Provides access to legal annotations and Stralex. The Norwegian legal commentary also includes legal journals from Gyldendal. Stralex contains rulings from Strasbourg.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Criminology
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text (Ebsco)
Provides a broad overview of criminology, including abstracts of books and articles on police work, juvenile delinquency, crime and punishment, victims and offenders, prevention, criminal law, and more. Includes content dating back to 1968 and is updated annually.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Go to ebscohost.com (Criminal Justice Abstracts)
Health sciences
Cinahl (Ebsco)
A bibliographic database containing references to English-language literature on nursing and related fields, including physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and nutrition. It primarily includes journal articles, but also some books and book chapters, dissertations, conference proceedings, and practice standards. It contains a significant amount of qualitative research and patient experiences.
- Content: References.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
Cochrane Library
A collection of health science databases containing various high-quality studies. Includes systematic reviews from the Cochrane Collaboration in full text.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
In Sum
IN SUM is RBUP's online database of reliable, updated, and relevant summarized research on preventive and treatment measures for children's and adolescents' mental health, as well as child welfare measures.
- Content: Systematic research reviews.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Medline (Ebsco)
The National Library of Medicine's (NLM) bibliographic database that contains references to journal articles in life sciences.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: References.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
PsycInfo (Ebsco)
A reference database covering literature in psychology, including psychological aspects from other disciplines such as medicine, nursing, management, social work, and sociology.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Abstracts and references.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Go to ebscohost.com (PsycInfo)
PubMed
PubMed is an open database with over 36 million citations and abstracts of medical and health science literature.
- Content: References.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
UpToDate
A knowledge-based reference tool that provides quick answers to questions about diagnosis and treatment.
- Access: Personal login.
- Content: Knowledge-based summaries.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Go to login guidance (helsebiblioteket.no)
Interdisciplinary
Academic Search Premier (Ebsco)
A multidisciplinary database containing full-text articles from over 3,100 journals, including approximately 2,700 peer-reviewed journals. It also includes references and abstracts from over 8,500 journals. Covers areas such as social sciences, health, education, ethics, and multicultural studies.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Go to ebscohost.com (Academic Search Premier)
Campbell Systematic Reviews
The Campbell Library of Systematic Reviews contains systematic reviews of the effectiveness of interventions in education, social welfare, and crime prevention. Updated continuously.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
Go to campbellcollaboration.org
DOAJ
Directory of Open Access Journals. A database containing free articles from peer-reviewed journals in research and science, covering all subject areas.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Eric (Ebsco)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to literature and resources on education. The database includes over 317,000 full-text documents.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar indexes articles in scientific journals and books from a variety of publishers and databases, allowing searches across all subject areas and sources.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (Ebsco)
A comprehensive U.S. database focused on politics and social sciences. Includes reports, journal articles, newspapers, official documents, and more.
- Access: Log in with Feide.
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Go to ebscohost.com (International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center)
NVA (Norwegian Research Information Repository)
NVA replaces the Norwegian Police Academy's institutional archive - PIA.
NVA collects and makes available publications, research projects and researchers across universities, colleges and research institutions.
Almost all publications from the Norwegian Police University College are published in NVA.
- Access: open access.
- Contents: full text and references.
- Oria: the resource is searchable in Oria.
Scopus
A large bibliographic database with a focus on social sciences, natural sciences, and medicine. Covers approximately 20,000 academic journals and other scholarly materials.
- Access: Via the school network (PHS-nett, Eduroam, VPN).
- Content: Full text and references.
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.
SCUP - Scandinavian University Press (formerly known as Idunn.no)
A database with Norwegian and Nordic scholarly journals. The journals cover topics such as law, education, health and social sciences, social sciences, humanities, economics, and natural sciences.
- Access for NPUC: Log in with Feide.
- Access for the National Police Directorate: Via the police network.
- Content: Full text.
- Oria: The resource is searchable in Oria.
Media
Retriever
Editorial archive with articles from Aftenposten (1983-), Dagbladet (1996-), Dagsavisen (2002-), VG (1945-), and several other national, regional, and local newspapers.
- Content: Full text.
- Access: Via the school network (PHS-nett, Eduroam, VPN).
- Oria: The resource is not searchable in Oria.