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Ragnhild Sundsbak

Ragnhild Sundsbak
Subject specialist for human geography

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

 

Available hours: Wednesdays 12-14: at zoom analogue by appointment.


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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

 

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.

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.

The international encyclopedia of geography
A collection of encyclopedias in geography in full text.

Oxford Reference
Oxford’s Dictionaries, Companions og Encyclopedias

Other resources

Resources for library courses

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

Data from Sikt

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.

 

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