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National Library of Norway’s Bibliography of Norwegian research in literature covering literature after 1500 and general literary criticism and theory.

In bibliotek.dk you will find records of all items published in Denmark as well as all items found in the Danish public & research libraries.

Library Search is a national information retrieval technology that contains books, electronic publications, audiobooks, sheet music and more from Norwegian libraries. Library Search indicates which library owns each of the objects you retrieve.

Search millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitized throughout Europe.

The catalogue of the British library.

The library catalog of Library of Congress, the national library of the United States. 

LIBRIS is a national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries, as well as about twenty public libraries. Here you can find books, periodicals, articles, maps, posters, printed music, electronic resources, etc.

Bokhylla.no is a website with digitized books from the National Library of Norway. Books published before the year 2000 are available to the public in Norway.

Students and researchers can apply for access to books that are not openly available. The requirement is that the use must be for research or documentation purposes. To verify this, you must confirm your usage when opening a document.

Note: Students cannot apply for digital access to textbooks for higher education and profession-specific academic literature published in the last 20 years. The classification is based on the publishers' book groups 2.1 and 2.2. The relevant material will be marked in the Online Library.

To access:
1. Log in at the National Library's page with Feide or ID-portalen.
2. Click "Send inn" (Submit).
3. The National Library processes the application continuously within its opening hours.
4. The applicant will receive a confirmation by email when access is granted.

About access

• A loan of an object lasts for up to 8 hours.
• The loan lasts for 2 hours in case of inactivity.
• When access to a document is terminated, you must wait 2 hours before the same document can be borrowed again.

Only available in Norwegian.

Access to the National Library of Norway’s archive of Norwegian newspapers. Only available in Norwegian.

Only available at the library. Ask for access at the information desk.

Oria is a search engine that allows you to search the library's resources, books, articles, journals, music, films and electronic resources etc.

The National Library of Norway’s collection contains everything from books, magazines, music, film, radio and TV programmes, pictures, photographs, theatre material, maps, posters and newspapers to unique handicraft collections and special book collections.

WorldCat lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.