Danish Standards (Dansk Standard) is Denmark’s national standards organization. It is also a commercial foundation that operates DS Distribute.

DS Distribute is an online library of standards to which the VIA Library has purchased access. It provides access to approximately 300 standards and Eurocodes. You can search for the full text of the standards or browse by subject areas such as construction and civil engineering or IT and digitalization. You can also find information and news on topics such as CE marking, quality management, and service standards.

Access to DS Distribute
Access is available only on Campus Horsens, Campus Holstebro, Campus Randers (Minervavej), Campus Herning (Birk), and Campus Aarhus C, with a limit of 25 simultaneous users.

Remote access via VPN

International patent database from The European Patent Office. Contains more than 80 million patent documents - primarily patent applications. Many of the patent documents are available in full text as a PDF file (use the link "Original Document").

Use Smart Search to search in titles, abstracts, inventors, applicants, years and patent numbers.

Access to Espacenet

Below you will find a list of sources where you can access both Danish and international standards. The list is not exhaustive. It may be a good idea to search Danish Standards (Dansk Standard) or DS Distribute first to determine whether an international standard is available there.

Access to DIN Media
Website and catalogue of DIN standards, the German standards.

Access to the European Committee for Standardization (CEN)
Website and catalogue of European standards and technical specifications.

Access to IEC – International Electrotechnical Commission
(Website including a catalogue of IEC international standards for all electrical and related technologies.

Access to the i2i Standards Database
Global bibliographic standards database. Click the Login tab to access the search function. Available from VIA network addresses.

Access to ISO – International Organization for Standardization
Website with a catalogue of international standards.

Access to the Nordic Innovation Centre
Website covering the implementation of Nordic partnership programmes in trade, business, and innovation. It also provides links to Nordtest, which includes, among other resources, full-text Nordtest reports.

The official gateway to European statistics. The data will be supplied by each country's statistical agencies, after which they are collected in tables. By each topic statistics can be found from different countries, and can be used for comparison.

Access to Eurostat

OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) is an organisation of 38 member countries that works to promote democracy, the market economy, and other liberal values. The OECD serves as a global knowledge hub where governments exchange experiences and develop solutions to shared challenges.

OECD Library provides detailed and harmonised statistics on areas such as the economy, trade, energy, education, employment, development, and research from OECD countries and other major economies.

Search: A good place to start is the OECD Data Explorer. The OECD’s many publications also provides a good gateway to its statistical resources.

Free access to OECD Library

Official gateway to statistics about Denmark and the Danes.

• Prepared tables
• StatBank Denmark: Find data and make your own tables
• Publications with statistics and analysis/description of the figures.

Access to Statistics Denmark

Large interdisciplinary article database with access to more than 4.600 journals, many in full text.

Access to Academic Search Premier
Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA.Requires two-factor authentication.

Contact: Susan Margaret Yeoman Stanley, SSTA@via.dk 

Article database which covers all aspects of human influence to the environment. It covers subject such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.

Access to GreenFile
Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA. Requires two-factor authentication.

IEEE Xplore digital library covers conference publications, journals and magazines & IEEE standards. It contains more than 3 million documents. The content in IEEE Xplore comprises over 160 journals, over 1,200 conference proceedings, more than 3,800 technical standards, over 1,000 eBooks and over 300 educational courses. And contains publications and standards within the field of electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. IEEE covers the period from 1872 up to now.

Access to IEEE Xplore
Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA. Requires two-factor authentication.

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The Materials Science Collection contains journal articles related to materials science and all bibliographic records from the Materials Research Database, the leading global database in materials science. The database covers from 1965 onwards.

Access to Materials Science Collection
Access outside VIA: Select VIA University College as your institution. Use your login for MyVIA. Remember to enter the full email address.

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Contact: Anne-Maria Fiala Carlsen, acar@via.dk

The ProQuest Engineering Collection provides access to articles, figures and tables in the articles and all bibliographic records from the Engineering Research Database. This contains world literature on technology and engineering dating back to 1966.

Access to ProQuest Engineering Collection
Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA.Requires two-factor authentication.

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Contact: Anne-Maria Fiala Carlsen, acar@via.dk 

Search articles contained in journals and a collection of ebooks from the publisher Elsevier

Access to ScienceDirect (Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA.Requires two-factor authentication.)

Contact: Tine Furbo Lind, tifl@via.dk 

Scopus is the largest citation database with citations from 1996 and forwards. The bibliographical coverage goes back to the 1870s. The database is produced by Elsevier. The database refers to articles from more than 21,000 titles and 5,000 international publishers. Scopus covers scientific articles, professional periodicals, book series, conference papers, books and patents.

It is possible to make citation analyses on a specific researcher, including a researcher’s h-index both with and without own citations

Access to Scopus from VIA

If you need access from home, you need to use a VPN. See more here.

Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA. Requires two-factor authentication

Inspiration: Video Tutorial

Contact: Mai Aggerbeck, mai@via.dk 

An SBI Guideline is a publication that describes how tasks within a specific area of construction can be carried out in accordance with established best practice. SBI Guidelines are primarily intended for construction professionals, but they are also widely used in educational settings. Only a few guidelines are translated to English.

Anvisninger.dk is published by BUILD – Department of the Built Environment. All new guidelines are made available on the website as soon as they are completed and can typically be accessed there before they are available for purchase in print or as e-books. The website also contains many older guidelines, which are added as needed.

Access for Students
Log in at edu.anvisninger.dk
The first time you log in, you must create a user profile. Provide your student email address (xxxxxx@via.dk), name, programme of study, and expected graduation date. You will then receive a verification code.

Access for Staff
Log in at anvisninger.dk
Your account is created automatically. At your first login, change your username to your VIA email address. You will then receive a verification code.

Support
If you experience any problems, please contact: Anne Marie Lind Danielsen, amd@via.dk

Access to research, books, and articles from BUILD (formerly the Danish Building Research Institute, SBI) that are not published through the SBI guidelines series.

BUILD (Department of the Built Environment) is rooted in engineering science, while also incorporating significant and extensive elements from the social sciences and humanities. BUILD conducts research, provides consultancy, and offers education on the complex challenges of urban development, housing, construction, and civil engineering from a holistic perspective. In this way, it contributes solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges, such as the climate crisis, demographic change, resource scarcity, and urbanization.

BUILD is part of Aalborg University.

Access BUILD Research

On the DI Construction (DI Byggeri) website, you can find information on occupational health and safety, statistics, and exports.

DI Construction is the largest industry association within the Confederation of Danish Industry (DI), representing approximately 6,700 companies in the construction, civil engineering, and building materials sectors.

Access to DI Construction

We do not have a login for DI Construction. However, it is possible to request their standard documents by email. Send an email from your VIA email account specifying the documents you require to bibhorsens@via.dk.

Please note that these documents may only be used for educational purposes. They must not be used in connection with actual construction projects or building cases.

Get an overview of the essential health and safety requirements for machinery at the European level. 

The Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC provides the regulatory framework for the essential health and safety requirements for machinery in Europe. The page also includes guidance on the application of Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. 

The directive is issued by the European Commission.

Access to the Machinery Directive

Formerly known as the Danish Safety Technology Authority. Here you can find legislation, standards, and guidance related to areas such as gas and electrical installations.

Access to Market Surveillance

EPD Denmark is an organization that publishes Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for construction products in accordance with the requirements of the European standard EN 15804. The organization works to promote the European harmonization of verifiable documentation of the environmental performance of construction products.

An EPD (Environmental Product Declaration) documents the environmental characteristics of a construction product and is developed in accordance with recognized European and international standards.

Access to the EPD Database

Here, you can find publicly available environmental data for Denmark from various authorities and organizations. The data covers topics such as building and protection zones, groundwater, soil contamination, local and municipal planning, nature conservation, and environmental data.

The Danish Environmental Portal is a public-sector partnership jointly owned by the Danish state, municipalities, and regions. Its purpose is to support digital environmental management in Denmark. The fundamental principle is that the state, municipalities, and regions enter, update, and retrieve data from the same databases, while also making the data available to businesses and citizens.

The portal includes data on the environment, water, nature, land use, and climate adaptation. These data are used across a wide range of activities, for example when citizens obtain soil contamination certificates, when municipalities designate pesticide-free areas, or when the state prepares water management plans, agricultural policy packages, and wastewater regulations.

Access to The Danish Environmental Portal

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency administers laws, executive orders and EU legislation, with environmental protection, chemicals and products, waste management and contaminated soil.

EPA reports in Danish and English

Access to The Danish Environmental Protection Agency

IEEE Xplore digital library covers conference publications, journals and magazines & IEEE standards. It contains more than 3 million documents. The content in IEEE Xplore comprises over 160 journals, over 1,200 conference proceedings, more than 3,800 technical standards, over 1,000 eBooks and over 300 educational courses. And contains publications and standards within the field of electrical engineering, computer science and electronics. IEEE covers the period from 1872 up to now.

Access to IEEE Xplore
Access outside VIA: Use your login for MyVIA. Requires two-factor authentication.

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