Scandinavian Studies
Web:
Libraries and Information Services
[North America] [Scandinavian
Library Gateways]
[Denmark] [Finland]
[Iceland] [Norway]
[Sweden]
North American research libraries with substantial Scandinavian
collections
University of California at Berkeley
- online catalogs:
including Pathfinder and MELVYL
University of California,
Los Angeles - online catalogs:
including ORION2 and MELVYL
University of Chicago
Library - online catalog: Horizon
Columbia University
Libraries - online catalog: CLIO
Cornell University
Library - online catalog: CU
Library catalog - Fiske
Icelandic Collection
Harvard University Library
- online catalog: HOLLIS
University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign - online catalog: ILLINET
Library of Congress - online
catalog: LOCIS
University of Minnesota Libraries
- online catalog: MNCat
New York Public
Library Research Libraries - online catalog: CATNYP
University of Texas at Austin
- online catalog: UTNetCAT
University of Washington
- online catalog: UW Libraries
catalog
University of Wisconsin-Madison
- online catalog: MadCat
Yale University Library
- online catalog: Orbis
Gateways to libraries in Scandinavia
Nordic Libraries
Information Server
Danish
Libraries and Library Catalogs
Det Kongelige Bibliotek/The Danish Royal
Library - online catalog, online databases and reference works;
many pages are in Danish only.
A note about the catalog: Subject searching in REX is primarily
applicable to foreign books (subject searching in English is possible for
English works). To search Danish titles effectively, search by subject
code. See the Danish help documentation for details.
Nationalbibliografi
(Royal Library) - the national bibliography (with a link to a description),
along with a number of bibliographic indexes. A note about Dania Polyglotta:
this bibliography of literature on Denmark in languages other than Danish
ceased publication with volume 29 (1997).
Odense Universitetsbibliotek/Odense
University Library - online catalog, library information, and selected
Internet resources, in Norwegian, with instructions in English.
Roskilde Universitetsbibliotek/Roskilde
University Library - online catalog and databases, including DANDOK,
a database of research in progress and published at Danish institution,
in English with a link to the Danish interface).
Danish Libraries' web
pages - from the Odense University Library.
Dansk Biblioteks Center-
The Dansk Biblioteks Center provides information service to Danish libraries.
Den
Danske artikelbase - from Københavns
Kommunes Biblioteker (Copenhagen public libraries), an index with some
brief abstracts of articles in 750 Danish periodicals and 8 Danish national
newspapers. Interface in Danish only. (Kobenhavn)
Bogens Verden: Tidsskrift
for Dansk Biblioteksvæsen - from Danmarks Biblioteksforening
(Danish Library Association). Articles from 1994-1996.
Finnish
Libraries and Library Catalogs
Eduskunnan kirjasto/Riksdagsbiblioteket/Library
of Parliament - mostly in Finnish. Some descriptions of specific
collections in English.
Helsinki University
Library/The National Library of Finland - online catalog (HELKA)
and databases, including FENNICA, the Finnish national bibliography (in
Finnish only). Also includes a list of archival collections in the library.
Not all pages are in English, and the databases require reading knowledge
of Finnish and Finnish character capabilities in telnet. For more information
and instructions see Gabriel.
Arto
- database of approximately 10,000 Finnish journal articles (1995- ), with
fee-based searching.
Pulse (PUblic
LibrarieS Enterpage) - site for Finnish public libraries, with English,
Finnish, and Swedish versions, and search options.
University Libraries
in Finland - a list of links in Finnish.
Icelandic
Libraries and Library Catalogs
National and University Library of Iceland
Reykjavík
City Library
Norwegian
Libraries and Library Catalogs
Biblioteknett
Norge - the official gateway to library resources in Norway, in
Norwegian with some English descriptions.
Nasjonalbiblioteket /National Library
of Norway - online catalog and information about the library and
its projects, in English, with a link to the Norwegian.
Universitetsbibliotek i Bergen/Bergen
University Library - in Norwegian, with a link to an English information
page.
Universitetsbibliotek i Oslo -
University of Oslo Library, in English with a link to pages in Norwegian.
Norwegian county,
city, and research libraries with links to searchable catalogues
- Norwegian interface only.
BIBSYS - searchable
database for all national and university libraries in Norway, in Norwegian,
with a link to an English information page.
Swedish
Libraries and Library Catalogs
Libris
- union catalog that allows searching of more than three million titles
in nearly 160 Swedish libraries.
The Swedish Royal Library
Stockholm University Library
GUNDA, Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek
Swedish Libraries
- from The Swedish Pages.
Artikeldatabasen
- contains approximately 40,000 references to Swedish articles in the humanities
and social sciences, primarily to journal articles and reviews, but also
to essays, chapters, and the like from yearbooks, monographs, and comprehensive
works. Most articles have appeared since 1990, with inclusion of some older
titles.
Return
to Scandinavian Studies Web home page.
Return to
WESSWEB home page.
Scandinavian Studies Web. Last updated 3/20/00. The URL is
http://www.library.yale.edu/wess/scand/nordcat.html