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.
• AIP: American Institute of Physics (LTU) External link.
  Covers all areas of the physical science.
  
• AMA: Allmän material- och arbetsbeskrivning (LTU)
  Educational package from Svensk Byggtjänst, which includes resources such as the National Board of Housing, Building, and Planning's building regulations and general provisions, as well as web services like AMA and the Build catalogue. Users need to first create an account with Svensk Byggtjänst and then activate it via the activation link. The registered email address must end with @student.ltu.se or @ltu.se.
  
• AMED (LTU) External link.
  Reference database for physicians, therapists, medical researchers, historians, and clinicians seeking information on alternative therapies and related topics.
  
• APA PsycArticles (LTU) External link.
  Full-text database for publications from the American Psychological Association (APA).
• APA PsycInfo (LTU) External link.
  Psychology reference database.
  
• 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.
  Reference database for materials related to cold climates.
  
• ASCE Library (LTU) External link.
  E-journals and proceedings from the American Society of Civil Engineers, with journal articles available from 1983 onwards.
  
• 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 articles on company profiles, industry information, and market research.
  
• Business Source Premier (LTU) External link.
  Full-text database covering business operations and management, including accounting, banking, economics, finance, international trade, and more. Access to most journals from 1965 onward.
• Cambridge Core (LTU) External link.
  Access to 420 full-text e-journals across various subjects.
  
• CINAHL with Full Text (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for nursing and healthcare professionals, researchers, educators, and students. Provides comprehensive coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses' Association.
  
• Cochrane Library (LTU) External link.
  Consists of a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medical databases, updated four times a year, including The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

D, E, F

• DiVA External link.
  Research publications produced by Swedish universities and research institutions.
• DOAB, Directory of Open Access Books External link.
  Open access e-books covering all subjects.
• DOAJ, Directory of Open Access Journals External link.
  The Directory of Open Access Journals provides access to freely available, quality-controlled scientific journals in full-text across all subjects and languages.
• Ebsco e-book Academic Collection (LTU) External link.
  A collection of e-books covering all subjects.
• EconLit (LTU) External link.
  A reference database covering accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and more. Please note: Limited to four (4) simultaneous users.
  
• Emerald journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals covering management disciplines such as strategy, leadership, information and knowledge management, marketing, and human resource management. Includes backfile access.
  
• Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Technology (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  A reference resource in the field of polymer science and technology.
• Ergonomics abstracts (LTU) External link.
  A reference database covering topics in ergonomics and human factors, indexing valuable resources across multiple fields, including physiology, psychology, biomechanics, and occupational health.
  
• ERIC (LTU) External link.
  A reference database that provides access to comprehensive international educational-related literature.
• FAR Online (LTU) External link.
  A database with documents from FAR, the Institute for the accountancy profession in Sweden.
  
• Frontiers (LTU) External link.
  Frontiers is an open access publishing house that publishes 64 journals in medicine, natural sciences, technology, humanities, and social sciences. All journals are freely available for reading under the CC-BY license.
  

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.
  
• GlobalGrant (LTU) External link.
  A scholarship directory containing information on rules, addresses, and details about Swedish and international (non-Norwegian) foundations, funds, and other contributors.
  
• Google Scholar External link.
  A freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature in various publication formats and disciplines.
• Idunn (LTU) External link, opens in new window.
  E-journals from approximately forty Norwegian professional journals, primarily published by Universitetsforlaget.
  
• 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.
  The IMechE journals cover all aspects of mechanical engineering from 1847 onward. Each of the 18 journals, including 16 IMechE proceedings, focuses on a specific area of engineering, providing in-depth coverage within mechanical engineering.
  
• InCites – Journal Citation Reports (LTU) External link.
  Reports that compile citations using publisher-independent data, metrics, and journal analysis.
• InderScienceOnline (LTU) External link.
  A multidisciplinary publisher database offering subscription options for specific journals, subclusters, or entire clusters, allowing focused or comprehensive coverage within a chosen field.
  
• IOPscience Journals (LTU) External link.
  Access to 50 e-journals from the Institute of Physics, including an archive of journals from 1874 to 2004.
• 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.
  A collection of International Phonetic Alphabet transcriptions 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.
  
• Naxos Music Library (LTU) External link.
  An extensive online collection of classical music, with representation of jazz, world music, pop, and rock.
• 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.
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (LTU) External link.
  A reference database for global music, covering a wide range of genres.
  
• Royal Society of Chemistry Journals (LTU) External link.
  E-journals in chemistry from the Royal Society of Chemistry.

S

• SAE MOBILUS (LTU) External link.
  Full text of SAE technical papers published in the USA from 1998-. Standards and reports are only available with abstracts. The subject area is mobility engineering, including ground vehicles, aviation, off-highway, and manufacturing technology.
  
• 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, among other things, the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning's building regulations: general provisions, the web services AMA, the Build catalogue. Users must first create an account with Svensk Byggtjänst and then activate it with the activation link. The registered email address must end with @student.ltu.se or @ltu.se.
• 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-.
• Ullmann's encyclopedia of industrial chemistry (LTU) External link.
  Encyclopedia in chemistry and related subjects, such as advanced materials, polymers and plastics, metals and alloys.
• 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.