This directory has been produced in order to help information users to identify useful databases in the Nordic countries. Data from Iceland was updated in 1998, from Finland in 2000, from Sweden in 2001, from Norway in 2000 and from Denmark in 2000. Information about databases from the Faroe Islands will be included in the near future. Portable databases either on CD-ROM or on diskettes are also included, as well as WWW databases, mainly those for professional purposes. They are devided into bibliographic and referral databases.
Bibliographic databases contain citations to the printed literature, for example library catalogues.
Referral databases refer to non-printed information such as organizations, persons or other entities. Source databases contain the original source data. The subject terms and the database descriptions are in English, the keywords both in English and in a Nordic language. Producer is the organization which produces the database. Host is the organization which supplies passwords and manuals.