The portal of the Association of Computing Machinery contains 3 parts:

• ACM Digital Library: references, abstracts and full text of articles in ACM's own journals and conference series.
• ACM guide to computing literature: Tables of contents of journals and references to books, conference reports and theses in computer science.
• OCRS - Online Computing Reviews Service

Coverage: In Digital Library there are references from 1950-, and full-text from 1952-

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

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References, abstracts and full text of American Chemical Society journals.

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As a student or teacher within Spatial management (Samhällsbyggnad), you can get free access to the AMA (General Material and Workmanship Specifications) reference resource from Svensk Byggtjänst. AMA contains industry-standard texts for technical specifications.

The offer includes the following sections:

• AMA AF
• AMA Anläggning
• AMA EL
• AMA Hus
• AMA VVS & Kyla
• AMA-nytt
• AMA Beskrivningsverktyg

Access: To access AMA, you need to create an account and activate the service. Instructions on how to register are available here: https://www.hig.se/bibliotek/sokhjalp/amnesguider/atm/ama-via-svensk-byggtjanst External link. (in Swedish)

Full-text journals within medicine and public health from the publisher BMJ. Only journals in the BMJ Standard Collection are included in the subscription.

Coverage: 1917-

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Full-text journals within the social sciences from the publishers Bristol University Press and Policy Press.

Coverage: 1972-

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Abstracts and full-text articles within business and economics as well as company information.

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Full-text journals within a range of subject areas from the publisher Cambridge University Press.

Coverage: 1997-

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References to journal articles within nursing and allied health. Includes links to full-text databases.

Coverage: 1982-

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The Cochrane Library consists of three databases on evidence-based medicine:

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR) which contains systematic reviews of health care literature
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) with references to articles describing the results of controlled clinical trials
• Clinical Answers (CCAs) that supports decision-making in healthcare based on Cochrane Reviews

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews is included in Discovery.

Discovery is the Library's search portal where you can search in many databases at the same time.

• Select Source type = Academic Journals to search for articles in peer-reviewed journals.
• The search result often contains duplicates from several databases.
• Remove the "Available via University of Gävle" limiter if you wish to see other publications not held by the Library. In many cases, these can be ordered.

References to journal articles within nursing and allied health. Links to full-text databases.

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens (only one user at a time)

References, abstracts and full-text articles within business economics, technology and library sciences.

Coverage : 1994 –

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Contains references and abstracts to journals as well as books, theses and reports in educational science. Links are provided to several full-text databases.

Coverage: 1966 –

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International patent database from the European Patent Office (EPO). Includes national and international patents as well as patent applications.

Access: Free access

Contains collections of laws and regulations and encyclopaedias in the fields of accounting, auditing, tax and finance. The journals Balans and Skattenytt are also included.

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

GET is provided by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and allows you to download maps and aerial photographs from Lantmäteriet and the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU) in raster and vector formats.

Select University of Gävle from the menu (Högskolan i Gävle SP) and log in using your University of Gävle user account.

Manuals and information about GET
Download data from GET External link.
Basic use of the GET download service – a video tutorial External link.

Access: On campus + off campus via Swamid

Search engine for scholarly web resources. Covers free resources as well as the full-text journals of many commercial publishers.

Full-text articles appear on Google scholar for publisher content that the library subscribes to, provided you are logged in with your university user account.

Access: Free access

Reference database within environmental sciences. Links to full-text articles.

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

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GreenFILE is also freely available here: http://www.greeninfoonline.com/ External link.

Contains full-text journals, conference papers and standards published by IEEE within computer science, electrical engineering and electronics with applications in humanities, social sciences and medicine.

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With Journal Citation Reports, you can compare and evaluate scholarly journals indexed in Web of Science. For example, you can view a journal’s Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and compare it with other journals in the same subject area.

Full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The most recent years are usually not available.

JSTOR contains the following collections of primary sources:

• Global Plants (database containing digitised plant specimens from around the world)
• 19th Century British Pamphlets
• Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
• World Heritage Sites: Africa

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JUNO is a legal information service in Swedish. The library subscribes to the content available in JUNO for higher education institutions:

- Basic legal information: statutes, preparatory works, court cases (except district and administrative court decisions), information from authorities, EU law
- News and events
- Legal commentaries, e.g. Norstedts and Lexino
- English law translations
- Legal English Dictionary
- Magazines and journals
- E-books (except textbooks)

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

Libris is Sweden's national library catalogue containing books, reports, theses and more from Swedish public and research libraries.

Access: Free access

References and abstracts to articles, books and reports on library science and information management.

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

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LISTA is also freely available at: http://www.libraryresearch.com/ External link.

LSEG Workspace (formerly Eikon) contains international economic and financial data. You can find company information, stock indices, investment analyses, ESG data and much more. The software can be downloaded to your computer or accessed online or via the mobile app.

To use Workspace you must be a student or employee at the University of Gävle. Workspace may only be used for academic and non-commercial purposes. For students, downloads are limited to a maximum of 10 million data points per month.

Access: To access Workspace, you need a Workspace account with an active licence. Contact biblioteket@hig.se and we will create an account and assign you a time-limited licence. Please contact us at least one working day before you need to use Workspace.

Learn more about Workspace in the LSEG Learning Centre (requires a Workspace account): https://www.lseg.com/en/training/learning-centre/learning-paths/learning-paths-for-other/lseg-workspace External link.

Contains full-text journals within the health sciences from the publisher Mark Allen Healthcare.

Coverage: 1992-

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Database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information covering mathematical sciences literature. Includes Mathematics Subject Classifications (MSC) and links to full-text.

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References to articles and books within mathematics. Contains Mathematical Subject Classifications (MSC) and links to full texts.

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References and abstracts to journal articles covering medicine, biomedicine, nursing, health sciences and psychology. Links to full-text databases. Medline is an important component of the larger PubMed database.

Coverage: 1946-

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References and abstracts to journal articles covering medicine, biomedicine, nursing, health sciences and psychology. Links to full-text databases. Medline is an important component of the larger PubMed database.

Coverage: 1946-

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Includes the full-text National encyclopedia (NE), dictionaries in several languages, video content from UR, as well as sections on the world’s countries, religions and climate.

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Dictionaries from NE and Lexin/Language Council of Sweden in several languages, including Swedish and English. Also includes technical and medical dictionaries and a thesaurus.

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Dissertations from European and American universities.

Coverage: 1933–

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OpenDissertations is also freely available here:
https://research.ebsco.com/c/usiws6/search External link.

References and abstracts to journal articles covering nursing. Links to full-text databases.

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Full-text journals covering nursing and allied healthcare from the publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (LWW).

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Contains journals within all subject areas from the publisher Oxford Academic Press.

Coverage: 1996-

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An etymological dictionary covering over a thousand years of the English language from across the English-speaking world.

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Full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA).

Coverage: 1988-

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References and abstracts to articles and literature covering psychology and related disciplines. Links to PsycArticles and other full-text databases.

Coverage: 1872-

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References and abstracts to journal articles covering medicine, nursing, healthcare and psychology. Links to full-text databases.

Coverage: 1946-

Access: Free access

Business and financial news articles from newspapers, news broadcasts and trade publications, with an emphasis on North American sources.

Coverage: 1990-

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

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Financial information and annual reports from Swedish companies.

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

Articles from Swedish newspapers, journals and news agencies, web pages as well as TV and radio news.

Articles behind paywalls are also usually included. Premium articles in Bonnier News newspapers (Dagens industri, Dagens Nyheter, Expressen/GT/Kvällsposten, Helsingborgs Dagblad and Sydsvenskan) are not included.

Premium articles from Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet can be accessed in the library. Contact staff in order to use this service.

Social Media Archive contains posts from Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, and various blogs and forums. Select the Social menu to access Social Media Archive.

Coverage: 1981- (Editorial Archive), 2013- (Social Media Archive)

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Contains cases within economics, business and management.

If you are a teacher contact biblioteket@hig.se to get access to Teaching Notes.

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Contains full-text journals mostly within social sciences, humanities, medicine and technology from the publisher SAGE.

Coverage: 1999-

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Scandinavian University Press contains nordic full-text journals published by Universitetsforlaget, mainly within the humanities, law, health and social sciences.

Coverage: 1995-

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Full-text journals within all subject areas published by Elsevier.

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References and abstracts to journal articles covering all subject areas. Includes links to citing articles and citation statistics. Links to full-text databases.

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Standards in full-text from Swedish, European and international standards organisations. Also contains SIS Bygghandlingar and Materialnyckeln, a database with information about metallic materials (both in Swedish).

If you cannot access a standard in full text, you can ask the library to add it using the "Suggest addition" button. We will contact you when the standard is available.

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Guidelines for the preparation of construction documents based on Swedish and international standards, supplemented by Swedish practice. Also includes drawings, tables and downloadable checklists.

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Database containing information about metallic materials.

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Contains full-text journals within all subject areas from the publisher Springer.

Coverage: 1997-

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Digitised Swedish newspapers and magazines from 1645 until today. Volumes that are older than 100 years are freely available.

From 1 January 2024, the University Library has no longer access to copyrighted material that is less than 100 years old. We refer to the Gävle City Library or one of the other libraries that have full access to the service External link..

List of digitised Swedish newspapers (in Swedish) External link.
Guide to the Swedish newspapers service (in Swedish) External link.

Access: Free access to newspaper volumes that are older than 100 years

SwePub is the national search portal for research publications from Swedish higher education institutions.

Access: Free access

Contains full-text journals within all subject areas from the publisher Taylor & Francis.

Coverage: 1997-

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References and abstracts of articles within educational sciences.

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Teacher Reference Centre is also freely available here:

http://www.teacherreference.com/ External link.

Through UR access you can access radio and TV programs from Utbildningsradion (in Swedish). If you need to log in to watch the program, do the following:

1. Select University of Gävle as Identity service.
2. Log in with your user account from the University.

Access: On campus + off campus via Swamid

References and abstracts to articles, conference papers and book chapters covering all subject areas. Links to full text databases. Also includes links to citing articles and citation statistics.

Web of Science Core Collection consists of the following parts:

• Science Citation Index Expanded, 1900-
• Social Sciences Citation Index, 1900-
• Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1975-
• Emerging Sources Citation Index, 2005-
• Conference Proceedings Citation Index, 1900-
• Book Citation Index, 2005-
• Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED), 1985-
• Index Chemicus (IC), 1993-

In addition to Web of Science Core Collection, you can search a number of other databases via Web of Science, including Data Citation Index, Policy Citation Index, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Citation Index, and Medline.

Coverage: 1986-

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Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index are included in Discovery.

Contains full-text journals within all subject areas from the publisher Wiley.

Coverage: 1997-

Access: On campus + off campus via OpenAthens

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