National publication databases (e.g. SwePub)
GU publication database and repository (GUP & Gupea)
Research data catalogues and repositories

Publication databases

Most universities require their employees and researchers affiliated with them to report information about their publications to a publication database. The information can be used to provide bibliometric data to give a picture of the research conducted and published, as well as be a basis for evaluation and allocation of funding (see section on Sources of publication and citation measurements).

However, these databases, especially when they are aggregated to cover all the universities in a country, can also be quite useful to search for publications that are not available in the international subject or citation databases because they are written in the national language, are of publication types that are not necessarily indexed in these databases or for some other reason are not searchable there.

Publication repositories

Most universities also provide their researchers with a publication repository where they can publish (or parallel publish) works open access. These repositories provide a good source of full-texts, for instance to doctoral dissertations, reports or green open access articles (see Parallel publishing). In many cases, the publication database and the publication repository will be the same database (e.g. DiVA, which is used by several Swedish universities), but at the University of Gothenburg, they are two separate databases.

National publication databases (e.g. SwePub)

SwePub is a database which lists all the publications produced by researchers active at Swedish higher education institutions. It can be a good place to find publications written in Swedish or published in national journals/conferences, which will generally not be available in the international databases. SwePub aggregates all the local higher education institution publication databases. The posts in SwePub do not always include the full-text of the publication. Sometimes you will need to search for the title in Super Search, Libris or Google Scholar to locate the printed or online work.

The other Nordic countries have similar national publication databases.

Norway: Cristin
Denmark: Nora
Finland: Juuli
Iceland: Skemman

GU publication database and repository (GUP & Gupea)

GUP (Gothenburg University Publications) is similarly a database of all publications produced by University of Gothenburg employees and doctoral students. You can use it directly to identify the publications by an author or department, but a search in Super Search also includes results from GUP. GUP sometimes, but not always, contains full-texts. Most of the time you will only find the reference and you will need to locate the text e.g. through Super Search. The posts in GUP are also searchable in SwePub.

Go to the page Publication lists to search directly in GUP, e.g. to get a list of the publications from a particular department or author.

Searching using GUP

Gupea also contains full-texts of some of the publications produced by employees and doctoral students at the University of Gothenburg, including doctoral theses. This is where full-texts will be uploaded in the future, e.g. when parallel publishing work (see Parallel publishing). Texts in Gupea are searchable in Super Search.

Research data catalogues and repositories

Wheras the databases in this section primarily include various types of publications, there could also be an interest in searching for research datasets. Here are some useful resources:

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