Hvar.is is the Icelandic countrywide access portal to electronic databases and e-journals. It is the Iceland Consortia for electronic subscriptions' website.

• For more information on the Iceland Consortia for electronic subscriptions, see information page or look at referenced articles below.
• Combined usage data for the consortia, pdf-file, opens in a new window.

Here you find information on and access to more than 14,000 full-text journals and 12 databases in countrywide access in Iceland. Links on the left take you directly to the databases and e-journals collections.

To search:

• Use the meta-search engine Searcher-Analyzer to search all the journal collections at the same time.
• To search for journals by titles or by subject, use TDNet journal lists.

Articles and more information on the Iceland Consortia for e-subscriptions and hvar.is

• Olafsson, Sveinn [= Sveinn Ólafsson] (1999): Iceland's national information infrastructure. The International Information & Library Review (Volume 31, Issue 4, December 1999, pp 179-196, v. p. 189).
• Olafsson, Sveinn [= Sveinn Ólafsson] (2002): Information policy disputes in Iceland. The International Information & Library Review (Volume 34, Issue 1, March 2002, pp 79-95, v. p. 93-95).
• Thorsteinsdottir, Solveig [= Sólveig Þorsteinsdóttir] (2001): The Icelandic Digital Library : A National Database and Electronic Journal Consortium. EAHIL Newsletter to European Health Librarians (vol. 57, p 19). 
• Gylfadottir, Thora [= Þóra Gylfadóttir] (2003): Landsadgang til elektroniske databaser og e-tidsskrifter i Island – portalen hvar.is. Synopsis (vol. 34/2, pp 66-69), (in Danish).
• Hlynsdottir, Thorny and Thora Gylfadottir [= Þórný Hlynsdóttir og Þóra Gylfadóttir] (2004): Remote document supply in Iceland before and after nationwide access to 8000 e-journals: the story so far. Interlending & Document Supply (vol. 32/4, p. 70).
• Thorsteinsdottir, Solveig [= Sólveig Þorsteinsdóttir] (2005): Does national access to e-publications make a difference: the Icelandic experience. Journal of the European Association for Health Information and Libraries (vol. 1/4, pp 26-32).
• Ingrid van de Stadt interview with Solveig Thorsteinsdottir (2007): Going e-only: All Icelandic citizens are hooked. Library Connect (vol. 5, no. 1, p2). 

Iceland goes e-only - information on Deep Discount Pricing
From the beginning of the year 2004, the default subscription for Iceland is the electronic version of journals from Blackwell Publishing, Elsevier Science, Karger, Kluwer. For information on Deep Discount Pricing for Icelandic libraries - information for librarians, agents and publishers (page opens in a new window). 

Iceland Consortia for electronic subscriptions' steering committee
A steering committee works with the National Librarian, Ms Ingibjorg Steinunn Sverrisdottir:

• Ms Anna Torfadottir, Reykjavik City Library, Director
• Ms Palina Hedinsdottir, Natural History Institute librarian
• Ms Gudrun Tryggvadottir, Reykjavik University Library, Director
• Mr Sigurdur Hafsteinsson, University of Iceland, CFO
• Ms Solveig Thorsteinsdottir, Landspitali University Hospital Library, (Medical and Health Information Centre) Director