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Writing is a necessary part of the study, and an important way to learn. Part of the answer is that you must read and use literature to be able to write a good thesis. The library's collections and databases are there for you.

• "Review and discover" is useful for masterstudents too
• EndNote UiB. The University Library regularly holds courses in EndNote, which are announced in the UB calendar. are also available.
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• The use of sources in written work
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• Reference styles
  " are standardised rules for presenting information about the sources used in a text. Typically, a style will describe how to organise information about author(s), publication year, title and page numbers." Which style you should use depends on the subject you are studying. You must clarify this with your supervisor. You can find literature about styles in the library. We have for example and

By searching the library catalog you find both e-books and paper books. After a search, you can choose only fulltext documents.

At the Art and humanities library you'll find the most important literature in digital culture, including the syllabus. The books in the library are arranged by disciplin, so books that are within the same disciplin stand together on the shelf. Within the disciplin books about the same subject are co-located. Each book has a number written on the back that determines where the book is placed on the library shelf. This is a so called and the first numbers indicate the disciplin, while the next says something about the topic. You can also search in Oria on Dewey number, combined with words. You will also find e-books.

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Can’t find the book you’re looking for? Please send a book suggestion!

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Do not use chatbots like ChatGPT for information and literature searches. These are not reliable sources, and the information is not peer-reviewed.

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• BORA (Bergen Open Research Archive)
  is the archive of scientific material produced by University of Bergen. Here you find master's theses, doctoral theses, articles and other free material. Texts produced by Digital culture is interesting for readers belonging to other disciplines, and it is important that they become publicly available. The University Library will no longer receive the printed thesis, so BORA is the best option for storage and dissemination. Documents in BORA are included in (Norwegian Open Research Archives), a service harvesting the content in all the Norwegian institutional archives, and Open Access journals in Norway.
  
  

When you submit your thesis you will get a choice to make it available in BORA. Passed assignments will then be transferred to BORA. Send questions to bora@uib.no

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The and provide guidance in searching. You can search in Oria using the Dewey number.
Please note that many e-books do not have Dewey numbers. It is therefore important to use various search techniques.

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This is humanities-driven research in electronic literature, games studies, digital culture, and computation to advance understanding of digital narrative. CDN is a Norwegian Centre of Research Excellence funded by the Norwegian Research Council from 2023-2033. CDN focuses on algorithmic narrativity, new environments and materialities, and shifting cultural contexts.

For electronic literature, the vision is to have one of the world's best book collections.

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Films:
Brodsky, I.T. (regi). (2016). Beware the Slenderman. New York: HBO

Brooker, C. (forfatter). (2016). Black Mirror. Los Gatos: Netflix

Lang, F. (regi). (1927). . London: Eureka Entertainment

Nolan, J.,Ìý Joy, L. & Gross, H.W. (forfattere). (2016): Westworld. New York: HBO

Spielberg, S. (regi). (2002). . Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox

Stanton, A. (2008): . Burbank: Walt Disney Pictures

Wachowski, A. & Wachowski, L. (regi). (1999): . Burbank: Warner Brothers
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Novels

Bradbury, R. (1953). . New York: Ballantine.

Brodin, E. (2003). . Oslo: Aschehoug.

Cline, E. (2011). . Overs. PÃ¥l Stokka. Original publisering 2011. Kristiansund: Vendetta forlag.

Doctorow, C. (2009).. Overs. Øystein Vidnes. Original publisering som Little Brother (2008). Oslo: Samlaget.

Eggers, D. (2013). . New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

Gibson, W. (1989). . Overs. Torgrim Eggen. Original publisering 1984. Oslo: Aschehoug.

Huxley, A. (1948).

Orwell, G. (1962). . Overs. Trygve Width. Original publisering 1948. Oslo: Gyldendal.

Roth, V. (2013). . Overs. Torleif Sjøgren-Erichsen. Original publisering 2011. Oslo: Schibsted.

Suarez, D. (2009): Daemon. New York: Dutton.

Suarez, D. (2010): Freedom. New York: Dutton.

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