Databases – alphabetical order

The University Library provides access to a large number of databases including books, journals, articles, sheet music and audio files. Some databases contain full-text references.

The Library Search Tool

When you search in the Library Search Tool, you search in most databases and journals that are available through Luleå University of Technology. Remember to log in with your LTU user to get full access. Here you can also find Open Access resources.

• The Library Search Tool. External link.
  Here you find the most databases and journals that are available through the university.

A, B, C

• Academic Search Premier (LTU) External link.
  A multidisciplinary research database.
  
• ACM Digital Library (LTU) External link.
  Materials related to computer science.
• ACS: American Chemical Society (LTU) External link.
  Materials related to chemistry.
  
• AES E-Library (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Materials on audio technology. Accessible through the university network or VPN.
• Africa-focused e-resources External link, opens in new window.
  Access e-books, newspapers, journals, bibliographies, and fiction, primarily in the social sciences. Among the databases is SA Media, which includes over 120 South African newspapers. Researchers and students at LTU can apply for access to these e-resources through the Nordic Africa Institute.
• AIP: American Institute of Physics (LTU) External link.
  Covers all areas of the physical science.
• AMA: Allmän material- och arbetsbeskrivning (LTU)
  AMA is used to produce technical descriptions and tender documents in areas such as electricity, civil engineering and plumbing.
  

• AMED (LTU) External link.
  A reference database in alternative medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and rehabilitation.
  
• APA PsycArticles (LTU) External link.
  A full-text database from the American Psychological Association.
  
• APA PsycInfo (LTU) External link.
  A reference database in psychology.
  
• APS: American Physical Society (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in physics and related fields published by the American Physical Society.
  
• Arctic & Antarctic Regions (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for materials related to cold climates.
  
• ASCE Library (LTU) External link.
  E-journals and proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers.
  
• ASME Digital Collection (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in mechanical engineering from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
  
• ASTM Compass (LTU) External link.
  Books, reports and standards published by the American Society for Testing and Materials.
• BMJ Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in medicine and healthcare published by the BMJ Publishing Group.
  
• Branschnyckeltal (LTU) External link.
  Business ratios from Statistics Sweden (SCB) for company comparison.
• Business Searching Interface (LTU) External link.
  Scientific journals covering company profiles, industry information and market research.
  
• Business Source Premier (LTU) External link.
  A full-text database covering business operations and management, including topics such as accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade and more.
  
• Cambridge Core (LTU) External link.
  A collection of full-text e-journals covering various subjects.
  
• CINAHL with Full Text (LTU) External link.
  A reference database covering nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and health administration. It also includes full-text articles.
  
• Cochrane Library (LTU) External link.
  Systematic reviews in medicine and related fields.
  

D, E, F

• DiVA External link, opens in new window.
  Research publications produced at Luleå University of Technology.
  
• DOAB, Directory of Open Access Books External link.
  Open access e-books in various subject areas.
  
• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals External link.
  Open access, peer-reviewed scientific journals in various subject areas.
  
• Ebsco e-book Academic Collection (LTU) External link.
  A collection of e-books covering all subjects.
• EconLit (LTU) External link.
  A reference database in economics. Four (4) simultaneous users allowed.
  
• Emerald journals (LTU) External link.
  Scientific journals primarily in the fields of management, marketing, economics and logistics.
• ERIC (LTU) External link.
  A reference database in educational science.
  
• FAR Online (LTU) External link.
  A database with documents from FAR, the Institute for the accountancy profession in Sweden.
  
• Frontiers (LTU) External link.
  Open access journals in medicine, natural sciences, technology, the humanities and social sciences.
  

G, H, I

• Geodata (LTU) External link.
  The Swedish Land Survey's geodata portal, where you can search, find and view geodata.
• Geografiska sverigedata (LTU) External link.
  Geodata from the Swedish Land Survey, Swedish Transport Administration, Statistics Sweden, and Swedish Maritime Administration.
• GeoLagret External link.
  Here, you can search for, order, and in some cases download products from the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU), including maps, reports, brochures, and more.
  
• GeoRef (LTU) External link.
  A subject database in the geoscience.
  
• Google Scholar External link.
  A search engine for scientific publications.
  
• Idunn (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Academic e-journals and e-books in the humanities and social sciences from Universitetsforlaget/Scandinavian University Press.
  
• IEA Statistics Package, ISP (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Energy statistics from the International Energy Agency (IEA), including access to the IEA Statistics Package (ISP).
  
• IEEE Xplore (LTU) External link.
  Full-text of all IEEE journals, conference proceedings, and standards in electrical engineering, computer science and electronics.
  
• IMechE Journal Collection and Archive (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  E-journals and proceedings in mechanical engineering from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, known as IMechE.
  
• InCites – Journal Citation Reports (LTU) External link.
  Reports that compile citations using publisher-independent data, metrics, and journal analysis.
• InderScienceOnline (LTU) External link.
  Full-text e-journals in various subjects.
  
• IOPscience Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals from the Institute of Physics.
  
• IOS Press (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in computer science, mathematics, medicine and the natural sciences.
  
• IPA Source: IPA Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias (LTU) External link.
  Transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) and literal translations of opera arias and art song lyrics.
  

J, K, L

• JSTOR (LTU) External link.
  An e-journal archive covering various academic disciplines, with limited access to the most recent years.
• JUNO (LTU) External link.
  E-resources in law, including approximately 1,150 laws in their current wording with comments, along with access to the journal Juridisk Publikation.
• Landguiden (LTU) External link.
  Here you will find reliable and up-to-date information on countries, conflicts, and organisations worldwide. The resource is published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, which operates independently of political influences.
• Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LTU) External link.
  A research Database for Library and Information Science.
  

M, N, O

• MathSciNet (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for reviews and bibliographic data from Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications.
• MEDLINE Ebsco (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for authoritative medical information covering medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, healthcare, preclinical sciences and more.
  
• Micromedex (LTU) External link.
  A reference database providing information on pharmaceuticals, diseases, toxicology and alternative medicine.
  
• MLA International bibliography (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for research on all aspects of modern languages and literature.
• Nationalencyklopedin, NE (LTU) External link.
  The full-text of the National Encyclopedia, including its dictionary and atlas.
• OAIster External link.
  An electronic archive containing records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide.
  
• OECD iLibrary External link.
  Access to statistics from the IEA and OECD.
  
• OneMine (LTU) External link.
  A collection of resources related to mining and minerals.
  
• OnePetro (LTU) External link.
  An online library of technical literature for the oil and gas industry.
  
• Open Research Europe External link.
  An open-access publishing platform for research funded by Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, covering all subject areas.
  
• OpenDOAR External link.
  A directory of open-access repositories.
• Oxford English Dictionary (LTU) External link.
  An English historical dictionary.
  
• Oxford Grove Music Online (LTU) External link.
  An encyclopedia of music covering musicians, music creation, and musicology, with links to Grove Music Online.
• Oxford Reference (LTU) External link.
  A large collection of digitised content from Oxford University Press, including linked dictionaries and encyclopedias on a variety of topics.
• Oxford UP Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in education and social sciences published by Oxford University Press.

P, Q, R

• Paperity External link.
  A multidisciplinary database of open access journals and articles.
  
• PEDro External link.
  The Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro) provides access to high-quality clinical research, including randomised controlled trials, systematic reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines relevant to physiotherapy.
  
• Project MUSE (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in the humanities and social sciences.
  
• Publicera External link.
  A digital platform providing open access to Swedish scientific journals.
• PubMed (LTU) External link.
  A reference database covering MEDLINE, OLDMEDLINE, and other biomedical sources.
  

• Retriever Business (LTU) External link.
  A database providing business information.
  
• Retriever Mediearkivet (LTU) External link.
  The archive contains 450 Swedish printed newspapers, magasines, trade publications, and annual reports. It provides access to Swedish and international articles dating back up to 10 years.
• Royal Society of Chemistry Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

S

• SAGE Journals (LTU) External link.
  Access from 1999- to more than 1,100 e-journals in social sciences, the humanities and life sciences.
  
• SAGE Research Methods (LTU) External link.
  A research method tool designed to help researchers, faculty and students with their research projects.
• SBU, Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services External link, opens in new window.
  Systematic reviews in Swedish.
• ScienceDirect Journals & Books (LTU) External link.
  E-journals and e-books on natural sciences, technical and medical research. Access to all journals in full text from 1995-, as well as back files in some areas.
  
• ScienceDirect Topics (LTU) External link.
  The topic pages provide definitions of concepts and subject overviews, as well as summarize relevant information from reference literature in brief.
• Scientific External link.
  Materials on Mechanics and Materials Engineering.
  
• SciFinder N (LTU) External link.
  Reference database and chemical abstracts for students and staff at Luleå University of Technology.
  
• SciFinder Registration External link.
  Use this link to register a new user. The e-mail address must be within ltu.se
• Scitation Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals published by American Institute of Physics.
• Scopus (LTU) External link.
  Reference database with summaries and citations for scientific journal articles in all areas; natural sciences, engineering, medicine and social sciences, including arts and humanities.
  
• SIS Subscription (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  Standards in full text, including Eurocodes (building standards) and standards for quality and environmental management systems.
• SPIE Digital Library (LTU) External link.
  Reference database in optics and photonics. Includes full text of SPIE conference proceedings from volume 1200 and six journals.
  
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text (LTU) External link.
  Reference database in physical education.
  
• Springer Nature Link (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  E-journals and e-books in biomedicine, life science, clinical medicine, physics, engineering, mathematics, computer science, the humanities, law and economics. Backfile access for journals. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
  
• Springer Materials, the Landolt-Börnstein database (LTU) External link.
  SpringerMaterials provides curated data and advanced functionalities to support research in materials science, physics, chemistry, engineering and other related fields.
• SundaHus Miljödata External link.
  Database for environmental assessment of products in the construction industry. Each user must register, and the email address provided must end with @student.ltu.se or @ltu.se.
• Svensk byggtjänst (LTU)
  Educational package from Svensk Byggtjänst. Contains AMA-online. Users must first create an account with Svensk byggtjänst.
• Svensk patentdatabas External link.
  The database contains Swedish patents, public patent applications and European patents (EP patents) that have been validated in Sweden.
• Svenska tidningar External link.
  Digitised and searchable Swedish newspapers from 1645 to the present day. A number of newspapers have been fully digitised, and in addition, there are a further 900 or so newspaper titles that have been digitised to varying degrees by the National Library of Sweden. Material that is protected by copyright can only be read in its entirety on the assigned archive computer at the University Library at Luleå University of Technology.
• Svenskt biografiskt lexikon External link.
  Personal history dictionary published by the Swedish National Archives
  
• Swedish MeSH External link.
  Use Swedish MeSH when you need to find controlled vocabulary to search in PubMed.
• SwePub External link.
  Academic publication at Swedish universities.

T, U, V, W, Y, Z

• Taylor & Francis Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals from Taylor & Francis in the packages Social Science & Humanities (SSH) and Science & Technology (S&T). Access from 1997-.
• Uppsök External link.
  Swedish degree projects and essays in full text.
• UR Access (LTU) External link.
  Lectures and TV and radio programmes from the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company.
  
• Web of Science (LTU) External link.
  Database that provides access to multiple databases and covers leading journals and more in natural sciences, technology, social sciences, arts and the humanities.
• Wiley Online Library (LTU) External link.
  Full text e-journals in the fields of natural sciences, technology, medicine, the humanities and social sciences. Access generally from 1997, except for the most frequently used subjects, where backfiles are available.
• zbMATH Open External link, opens in new window.
  A comprehensive abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. Open Access.