Search in databases

The knowledge pyramid is a model that helps you choose what to search for and where to find it. Sources of summarized research are at the top of the pyramid, while sources of individual studies are at the bottom. Start as high up in the pyramid as possible. You can find illustrations and information about source selection and the knowledge pyramid in the Health Library's online course on evidence-based practice: Evidence-based practice (helsebiblioteket.no)

UpToDate | App | Guide | National access (but outside Ahus via OpenAthens)
Diagnosis and treatment.

BMJ Best Practice | App | Guide | National access
Diagnosis, etiology, treatment, prognosis.

Dynamic Health​ | App​ | Guide/example search | Access via Ahus
Clinical reference work with a main focus on nursing and health sciences.

Cochrane Clinical Answers | Access via Ahus/HSØ and OpenAthens
Specific clinical questions answered using research.

Pyramid search | National access
Combined search in UpToDate, BMJ Best Practice, ACP Journal Club, McMaster Plus. Recommended for quick lookups; for more in-depth searches, you should search the databases individually.

The Norwegian Directorate of Health (Norway) - national professional guidelines

The Health Library's guideline database (Norway/international) - clinical guidelines, manuals, and recommendations

Center for Clinical Guidelines (Denmark)

The National Board of Health and Welfare: national guidelines (Sweden)

NICE Guidelines (UK) - British guidelines

TRIP (English-speaking/Europe) - a search for guidelines, but more and more is becoming inaccessible behind a paywall (the library does not have a subscription)

Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) - international guidelines

Cochrane Library | Guidance | Guidance (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ
Effect of interventions, but also diagnostics and etiology.

Epistemonikos | Guidance
Clinical questions.

IN SUM - mental health and well-being of children and adolescents

Campbell Library - education, social welfare, and crime prevention

OTseeker - occupational therapy

PEDro - physiotherapy

Pyramid Search | National access
Combined search, including systematic reviews from ACP Journal Club and McMaster Plus.

TRIP (English-speaking/Europe) - combined search for systematic reviews, but increasingly unavailable behind paywalls (the library does not have a subscription)

AMED - Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (Ovid) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ

APA PsycInfo (Ovid) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ
Psychiatry and psychology.

CINAHL (Ebsco) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/Health Library
Nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nutrition. You can also search in Medline via the same interface.

Embase (Ovid) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ
Medicine, health sciences, psychology/psychiatry. Particularly good coverage of pharmacology, general public health, substance abuse, environmental and occupational medicine. Covers many Western European journals not included in PubMed/Medline.

ERIC (Ebsco) | Access via Ahus or Health Library
Education and other education-related topics. Also available as ERIC (free version)

Google Scholar - all subject areas, citation search, find full text
Well suited for exploration and finding full text, but good academic/systematic searches should be conducted in other databases.

Idunn​ | Access via Ahus
Full-text articles from 82 Norwegian journals, as well as 83 freely available e-books.

Medline (Ovid) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ
Medicine, health sciences, psychology/psychiatry.
You can also search in Medline via Ebsco (same interface as CINAHL) or Medline via Clarivate (same interface as Web of Science)

Norart - Norwegian journal articles
Note! No longer updated, discontinued in 2021.

PsycINFO (Ovid) | Guide (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/HSØ
Psychiatry and psychology.

PubMed | Guide (Norwegian)
Medicine, health sciences, psychiatry/psychology.

Scopus | Access via Ahus
Natural sciences, medicine, social sciences. Citation search.

SveMed+ - Scandinavian articles in medicine and health sciences
Note! No longer updated, discontinued in 2019.

Web of Science (Clarivate) | Access via Ahus
All subject areas. Citation search. Links to Journal Citation Reports (tool for journal statistics, impact factor). You can also search in Medline via the same interface.

Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy

OTseeker - occupational therapy

PEDro - physiotherapy

​Cinahl (Ebsco) | Guidance (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus/Health Library
Nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nutrition. You can also search in Medline via the same interface.

Medications

IBM MicroMedex with Martindale | Apps | Access via Ahus/Health Library
International reference work on medications.

Health Library's subject page: Medications

KOBLE
Knowledge-based reference work on children's medications, with information on dosing and use of medications for children. Funded by the Ministry of Health and Care Services.

Pedagogy

ERIC (Ebsco) | Access via Ahus/Health Library
Pedagogy and other education-related topics. Also available as ERIC (free version)

Psychology and Psychiatry

APA PsycInfo (Ovid) | Guidance (Norwegian) | Access via Ahus
Psychiatry and psychology.​

IN SUM - systematic reviews on children's and adolescents' mental health and well-being.