You can access all electronic material (e-books, articles, databases) outside campus if you install Cisco Anyconnect VPN.
You will find more comprehensive information about how to work from home at IT-help UiB (You must use a FEIDE login).
Oria
Oria is the common catalogue and search portal for Norwegian subject libraries. It provides an overall overview of which resources are available to you, either at your own institution or via interlibrary loans. You can manage your interlibrary loans yourself via Oria. You access Oria via the website of the University Library. You can search in Oria from the simple field that is clearly located on the start page, but this is a general search that gives many and not very concise hits. To make it easier to find what you are looking for, "Advanced Search" should be used. From this page, you have access to several functions with the possibility to specify the search considerably, as well as manage your own profile.
Search Scope. Here, you choose whether you only want to search your own institution’s library or the entire catalogue. It is best to start the search in your own institution - the University Library in Bergen - as this will show what you actually have access to here and now. Should you not find what you are looking for, you can change this criterion to one of two options: Norwegian Academic Libraries or Search all sources. The best thing is to go straight to Search all sources. The material must be ordered anyway, and you potentially avoid having to apply 3 times.
Advanced search can be used to refine the search, ideally leading to fewer, but better hits. Both search category (All fields, Title, Author, Subject, etc), content text (contains, phrase, starts with) and Boolean search (AND/OR/NOT) will affect which hits you get. The search can further be limited by material type, language and time interval.
Title and author
Title and author are best used when you already know what you are looking for, and either want access to an e-book/article or want to find the shelf placement of a book. There is a big difference between searches that are made without this specification and those that are made with it.
Any Fields and Subject
The categories Any Fields and Subject are more suitable for finding new literature. In this context, it may be expedient to specify the search by using several search terms. In this case, Anthropology, Africa, Health care and Religion have been used as terms with Any Field as a filter, which gave fewer but more concrete hits for each step. If Subject is used rather than Any Field, you get even fewer hits. It is nevertheless worth noting that this has to do with cataloguing, not the book's actual content. In this sense, there is less risk of missing titles by using All fields, but you must scroll through a larger number of matches. However, you can quickly review them if you click on the document and scroll down to the description/abstract.
Once you have logged in, you can access the function via a drop-down menu to easily go directly to the desired category or get an overview via My Account. Here you can see which loans, orders, fees or messages you have with and from the library. This overview gives you a good opportunity to keep up to date with submission dates, follow up on previous orders, see which fees you may have outstanding, and if the library has sent you any messages. You will also receive messages via the mail system, but any comments (one example is if you have been blocked) will also be readily available here. You can also access My Favourites via the tack icon in the top right corner.
Reservation and Interlibrary Loans
You will occasionally need books that have already been borrowed, or books and articles that are not in the collection of the University Library in Bergen. These can be reserved from UBB or ordered as interlibrary loans from other libraries, which you can do yourself via Oria. The order will be dispatched via your primary library. You must be logged in to Oria to be able to use these services. If you are not logged in to Oria, you will be asked to do so before the reservation/order goes ahead.
Reservation
If a book/all copies of a book have been lent, it will say "Lent out/Checked out from University Library in Bergen". By going to the post (i.e. going to the document itself), you will have the opportunity to reserve the book by pressing "Order Document/Request". You are then asked to choose which library branch you wish to collect the book from (this may have been pre-selected for you), after which you press "Order Document/Request" again. If everything goes well, you will receive a confirmation that the reservation has been completed, as well as information on where you are in the queue (if applicable). As most books have a loan period of 4 weeks, you can calculate how long it will take to receive the book.
Interlibrary loans
Interlibrary loans are most relevant if UiB does not own the document you need. As a rule, books we already own are not borrowed from other libraries, even if there is a long waiting list for our copies. If you believe there are compelling reasons for us to make an exception in your case, you can write a comment in the order form.
Using Oria, you will find the tab "Get it", where status and location are given for the document. E-books are usually found within the search results and are accessible when you are connected to the UiB network.
Geography is a subject that employs books and resources from different fields. Regarding books more specific to geography, the book collection is organised by the Dewey classification system, where geography is divided into the following main categories:
304.2 Human ecology
330.9-330.99 Economic situation and conditions (if classified under Economy)
550 Earth sciences
551 Geology, hydrology, meteorology
577 Ecology
910 Geography and travel
910.1 Topical geography
910.133 Economic geography (if classified as Geography)
910.133041 Economic geography of the British Isles
910.1330481 Economic geography of Norway
910.2 Miscellany; world travel guides
910.202 World travel guides. For specific regions, see 913-919
910.22 Illustrations, models, miniatures
910.223 Diagrams
910.28 Auxiliary techniques and procedures; apparatus, equipment, materials
Articles from academic journals gives you the research front and more in-depth discussion within different topis. There are hundreds of different journals within geography- with various focus and quality.
Where to search for academic articles
Oria is all the library in one search, and let you search both the physical catalogue and multiple databases at the same time.
Geobase - international research literature within geoscience. Index of 2100 journals.
Web of Science - Comprehensive article index from 1945 and onward.
Google Scholar - Free search engine limited to academic materials.
In doubt where or how to conduct a search? Ask you subject librarian for recommendations.
Handbooks are thematic collections of articles with thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship by leading scholars.
Atekst - includes the archives from some of the largest media concerns in Norway. Only in Norwegian
Pressreader - 6000 international newspapers and magasines, most recent editions available
Proquest - International news archive from 2000 and onward
Methodology
The publisher Sage is a leader in methodological literature, and the Sage Research Methods Online platform allows you to search 1,000 documents and video presentations. Find out either via discipline, methodology or instrument. SRM can also be used to plan the research process, from design to analysis.
Sage research methods online - tool designed to help you create research projects and understand the methods behind them. More than 800 ebooks on methodology available.
Alternatively, search Oria for books and articles on methodology.
Location in the library
At the Library for Social Sciences, Music and Psychology, social science methodological literature is listed at 300.72. For the general method books, a capital letter has been added after the Dewey number. All of these should, in principle, cover the method field you wish to use. Literature on the various methods can be found under the following numbers on the shelf:
300.72 A Action research.
300.72 E Evaluation.
300.72 L Literature review.
300.72 M Meta-analysis.
300.72 T Text analysis
300.722 B Biographical method. Life history methodology.
300.722 C Case studies.
300.722 D Document analysis. «Historical methods».
300.722 E Ethnomethodology (Field work).
300.722 F Focus groups.
300.722 G Participant observation (Grounded theory).
300.722 I Informant interview (Qualitative Interview).
300.722 N Narrative analysis/inquiry (Discourse analysis).
You have several books on academic writing available in the library. See shelf signature 808.066 for titles like How to write your master's thesis or How to write and publish a scientific paper.
Library courses
The library offers both general and tailored courses to students and staff. Contact subject librarian (below) for more information.
Book a librarian
At the library desk you can get help and guidance in searching our catalogs and databases, or to find your way around the physical collections.
Students and employees at the University of Bergen can also book a librarian, who can help with information searching and how to locate relevant literature.
Endnote
Endnote is a reference manager tool that lets you collect, organise and manage different sources through the research process. Endnote is available for download on pc, mac and ipad. An online solution is also available. Get Endnote
