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Subject specialist in Gender Research and Scandinavian Studies
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Selected resources
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is a online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. It includes bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases.
Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Scopus (Elsevier)
Abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Humanities Abstracts
A bibliographic database that cites articles from English language periodicals. Periodical coverage includes some of the best known scholarly journals and numerous lesser known but important specialized magazines.
Feminae
Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the Middle Ages.
Book search
Oria - The Library Database includes books, journals, articles, sound recordings, printed music etc. held by the norwegian research libraries.
Electronic journals
We have Online and printed journals. See also:
- E-journals held by the library
- Important journals (level 2) NSDs Norwegian register of scientific journals
New books in Gender research
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Women's activism, feminism, and social justiceMcLaren, Margaret A (Oxford University Press, 2019)Series: Studies in feminist philosophyReceived in the library 9 December.
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Working girls : sex, taste, and reform in the Parisian garment trades, 1880-1919Tilburg, Patricia A (Oxford University Press, 2019)Received in the library 15 November.
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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, intersex, and queer psychology : an introductionEllis, Sonja J (Second edition, Cambridge University Press, 2019)Received in the library 1 October.
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Gender and translation : understanding agents in transnational reception(Editions quebecoises de l'œuvre, 2017)Series: Vita traductiva 10Received in the library 29 August.
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Exposed : environmental politics and pleasures in posthuman timesAlaimo, Stacy (University of Minnesota Press, 2016)Received in the library 31 July.
Historical databases
Orlando (Cambridge University Press) provides new biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of more than 1300 women writers, together with contextual materials relevant to critical and historical readings
Franciscan Women
This web database aims to provide in-depth information on Poor Clares, female Franciscan Tertiaries and aligned groups from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries.
Oxford dictionalry of national biography .National record of men and women who have shaped British history and culture, worldwide, from the Romans to the 21st century.
Women's History Collections
This is an overview of individuals and organizations whose papers and records can be used as primary sources for women's and gender history.
Statistics
UNECE Gender Statistics Database
Comparable data for Europe, North America and Central Asia
OECD Gender, Institutions and Development Database (GID-DB)
The OECD has good data, also on gender.
GenderStats form the World Bank
A compilation of data on key gender topics from national statistics agencies, United Nations databases, and World Bank-conducted or funded surveys.
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