Subject page for human geography
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Contact
Alexandre Simon-Ekeland
Subject specialist for human geography
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Selected resources
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences – IBSS (Ovid) IBSS
IBSS indexes about 2600 social science journals and 6000 books annually.
ISI Web of Science
Citation indexing of about 12000 journals.
World Bank eLibrary
Full text database to about 6000 World bank reports, books, working papers and journals. Open access from 2024.
OECD iLibrary
Full text access to nearly all the books, journals and statistics from the OECD.
Scopus
Scopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings..
UNComtrade – UN Commodity Trade Statistics (UN Comtrade) allows users to find statistics on any commodity from countries world-wide. Includes aggregated trade data on national and regional level (imports, exports and re-exports) and trade statistics on categorized commodity groups.
- Atekst – Norwegian newspapers – Apply for access
- EastView – Russia and Eastern Europe resources
- The Economist – Search The Economist in Oria. We have online in full text and the latest month in paper version.
- Factiva – a big, international news database
- Financial Times – Available on two separate platrorms
- Keesing`s World News Archives – "40 years of fulltext international news reports".
- Westlaw International – Judicial resourses from States, UK and the EU members
Handbooks and encyclopedias
The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology
Contains more than 1,000 entries ranging from 1,000 to 10,000 words offering accessible introductions to basic concepts, and sophisticated explanations of complex topics.
The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
Over 1,000 detailed entries on philosophy and theory, key concepts, methods and practices.
Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential
An open-access encyclopedia.
Other resources
Browzine – Service used to browse premade collections, create private collections in "My Bookshelf" and save articles for later Reading, "My Articles". Recommended.
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Contains about 4000 detailed entries in social and behavioral sciences.
UN-Data
The statistics portal from the United Nations.
Laborsta
Statistics and databases from ILO.
World Bank Data Catalog
Statistics on development related subjects from the World Bank.
Factiva
Media archive of international news papers suited for scholarly research
Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research
Books
The books are shelved after the Dewey Decimal Classification System. Every book has got a metric number from 0 to 1000, with or without decimals, "304.2" for example. Within each number the books are ordered alphabetically, like "304.2 Hes". The classification system is searchable.
New books
Library courses
Suggest a purchase
You are welcome to suggest additions to our collection (books, journals etc).
Search & Write
Search & Write is designed for all students who want to improve their information literacy and academic writing.
Academic Writing Centre
Visit the centre and discuss your ideas, drafts and questions with one of our writing consultants.
PhD on Track
PhD on Track is for all beginning researchers, main topics are the research process, communicating results, and open science.