DiVA portal

A new link to freely accessible research material has been added to the ebook collections tab on the ebooks@cambridge webpages.

Be sure to check the box next to ‘Only documents with full text in DiVA’ before searching.

The DiVA portal is a finding tool for research publications and student theses written at 36 universities and research institutions. DiVA – Academic Archive Online, is a publishing system for research and student theses and a digital archive for long-term preservation of publications.

There are 183,049 full text documents in DiVA. There are 79,669 entries in English with others being in Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Spanish, German, French and Finnish. Subjects covered include humanites, social sciences, engineering, and business administration.

The universities and institutes repositories that can be searched via DiVA are:

Blekinge Institut of Technology

Dalarna University

Ersta Sköndal University College

Swedish National Defence College

The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences

Högskolan i Borås

Halmstad University

Stockholm School of Economics

University of Gävle

University of Skövde

Jönköping University

Kristianstad University

University West

Karlstad University

Royal College of Music Konstfack – University College of Arts, Crafts and Design

Royal Institute of Technology

Linköping University

Linnaeus University

Mälardalen University

Mid Sweden University

The Nordic Africa Institute Nationalmuseum Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Nordic Council of Ministers

Swedish Museum of Natural History

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Örebro University

Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Red Cross University College

Södertörn University

Sophiahemmet University College

Stockholm University

Umeå University

Uppsala University

The Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute

Here are a few examples of resreach that can be found in the portal:

The soapstone birds of great Zimbabwe : archaeological heritage religion and politics in postcolonial Zimbabwe and the return of cultural property – doctoral thesis by Edward Matenga, Uppsala University, 2011

Search for neutral Higgs bosons of the minimal supersymmetric standard model in pp collisions at root s=8 TeV with the ATLAS detector – Aard, G., et al., Journal of High Energy Physics (JHEP), ISSN 1029-8479, E-ISSN 1126-6708, Vol. 11, 056-

The state of Guinea-Bissau: African socialism or socialism in Africa? –

Aaby, Peter, Research report 45, ISSN 1104-8425 ; Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, Uppsala