Sociology

The library is also called UBBSV or SV library. It has a book collection of 60,000 volumes in addition to periodicals, encyclopedias and master's theses. Online, the library offers around 200,000 electronic books and a ten-digit number of articles from journals, newspapers and encyclopedias. The reading room on the second floor is a learning center, not a quiet reading room. It exists to give bachelor students at SV-fak good workplaces with access to desktop computers, the books in the library, IT assistance and library staff who can help you find answers to any questions you may have.

The books in the Library Ground Floor are arranged to subject matter according to the Dewey Decimal Schedule. Many relevant books for sociologists will be found on shelf 300 to 307. However, there is relevant literature in most main classes.

To find the number of the book you want to borrow, you can search in oria. You access Oria via the website of the University Library.

THe Bergen University Library provides several e-book collections:

• Ebrary
• Springer
• OECD iLIbrary - all OECD publications

Norwegian e-books are found at bokhylla.no

Methods books can be found under the following shelfmarks:

• Content, discourse analysis:300.14
• Evaluation, research design: 300.72
• General and inclusive methods texts:  300.721
• Qualitative methods (e.g. action research, case-studies, interviews):300.722
• Quantitive and comparative methods (e.g. survey design): 300.723
• Experimental and quasi-experimental methods: 300.724
• Statistical methods (STATA, SPSS): 300.717
• Online methods database: Sage Research Methods Online

• Wiley - Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology
• Wiley - Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Wiley - Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization 
• Wiley - Encyclopedia of global human migration
• International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family
• Oxford Handbooks Online: Sociology
• ScienceDirect - Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science
• ScienceDirect - Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
• ScienceDirect - International Encyclopedia of Education
• Encyclopedia of feminist theories
• Springer - Handbook of Contemporary Sociological Theory
• Springer - Handbook of the Sociology of Racial and Ethnic Relations
• A Dictionary of Gender Studies
• Encyclopedia Britannica Academic
• The encyclopedia of global human migration
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
• Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, & Conflict
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
• Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies
• The Handbook of the Criminology of Terroris
• The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Data Collection
• Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization

UiB subscribes to a number of journals, check BrowZine for an overview.

You can also check International Bibliography of the Social Sciences. that contains these peer-reviewed journals.

The most comprehensive periodicals adatbase is the

• Web of Science. This database is severly biased against humanities and social sciences as well deficient in its standard of metadata compared to the IBSS.

If everything else fails (or if you are looking for "grey" - unpublished - material) use 

 Google Scholar. 

ProQuest Samfunnsvitskap

Search engines / databases for non-fiction:

• Oria.no. Oria is the University Library's search engine, and gives you both printed and electronic documents in the same hit list. Guidance on how to apply in oria can be found here
• Proquest. Here you can do a subject search for articles, and you will also find e-books, newspaper articles and international doctoral theses.
• Web of Science. One of the world's largest interdisciplinary index databases, registering articles from more than 21,000 peer-reviewed journals
• Google Scholar. Probably the largest collection of academic nonfiction. Advantages: Practical in the initial search phase, easy to do quick searches and to find a specific article. Good coverage in Norwegian publications. Disadvantages: Unsuitable for systematic searching, and the list of results often unclear. Risk of getting results from non-serious journals, so be critical! It is recommended to use index base as your primary search tool, and Google scholar as a supplement if necessary
• Jstor. Especially good for finding older or classic articles

Struggeling with searches? Contact your subject advisor for help and guidance.

Research reports (to be updated)

• NORCE Samfunn
• NIFU. Norsk institutt for studier av forskning og utdanning
• Kvinfo
• By og regionforskingnsinstitutt NIBR
• Institutt for Rural og Regionforskning
• Forbruksforskningsinstituttet SIFO
• Velferdsforskningsinstituttet NOVA
• Norks Utenrikspolitisk Institutt (NUPI)
• The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) (NB: har mange linker til internasjonale databaser) 
• Christian Michelsen's Insitutt (CMI)
• Fafo Institutt for arbeidslivs- og velferdsforskning
• Fritjof Nansens Institutt

Grey litterature - public documents and other reports (to be updated) 

• Regjeringen.no 

• Lovdata PRO 

• World Bank reports

Statistics 

• Finn data (sikt.no)
• Eurobarometer – Public opinion in the European Union (europa.eu)
• Norsk medborgerpanel | Universitetet i Bergen (uib.no) 
• Data (womanstats.org) 
• Europa World Plus
• Business Market Collection 
• Cross-national time-series data archive ("Banks data")
• World Values Survey

Newspapers

• For info, se: Kommunikasjonsavdelingen | UiB 
  • Norske / Nordiske Aviser: Atekst: Retriever - News Archive (retriever-info.com) 
  • Internasjonale aviser: PressReader - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions (pressdisplay.com) 
• Transitions online - database for det som skjer i Aust-Europa og Sentralasia
• LatinNews (Latin American Weekly Newsletter) - det som skjer i Latin-Amerika
• Africa Confidential - det som skjer i Afrika