Digital library collections and services

Use Oria to search the library's print and electronic collections

Oria is the library search engine, which can be used to find literature and check if it is available in our collection. Check our help pages for guidance on how to search and request documents in Oria. Can’t find what you need? Suggest a purchase 

Oria also contains a searchable database list of important databases within each subject. Below is an additional list of some useful interdisciplinary resources.

Interdisciplinary databases:

Nettbiblioteket: Contains a large number of digital books and other material, such as newspapers and journals. Anyone accessing the database from a Norwegian IP-address will automatically get free access to books, newspapers, magazines and pictures published in Norway before 2001. 

For editions from 2001 and onwards, different rules apply:

• Academic employees can access materials directly by logging in with their FEIDE username
• Students and administrative employees must log in with their FEIDE username
  and apply for 8-hour access. Go to your library and tell us you have applied.
  You get access when we have approved your application.  

Please notice: Material included on a reading list is no longer available for students and administrative employees at the UiB via Nettbiblioteket.  See Tilgang for forskning og dokumentasjon (in Norwegian only).

PressReader: PressReader delivers the world's leading newspapers and magazines to you in their original layout and pagination. Issues published within the last 5-6 years are available. The service can be accessed via Oria (link above), where you may be asked to log in (EZproxy); alternatively, if you are connected to the UiB VPN, you can download the PressReader App.

Idunn: Digital platform from the publisher Universitetsforlaget, which gives access to full text articles and open access academic books. More than 70 journals and professional/trade magazines are available. Site available in English. 

Ordnett.no: Online dictionary. Norwegian-English/English-Norwegian, and also Norwegian to German, French, Spanish and Italian. 

Atekst offers archive searches in over 300 Norwegian newspapers, and are for research purposes and studying. Automatic downloads are not permitted. Several papers have a seven day embargo, but the title and introduction is searchable from the publication date. Atekst charges UiB 10 NOK for every article that is read, so for daily newspaper reading we suggest using PressReader instead.