Resources for the humanities

• Project MUSE – multidisciplinary database with humanities journals
• JSTOR – more than 1,000 journals in full text
• Scandinavian University Press (formerly Idunn) – scholarly journals, monographs and anthologies for a Nordic and international audience
• ProQuest Dissertations – dissertations and master's theses
• MLA International Bibliography – index of research literature in language, literature, linguistics and folklore studies
• ERIC (EBSCO) – database covering educational research
• Subject databases – Arts and humanities – full overview in Oria

• Oxford Reference Online – multidisciplinary Oxford encyclopedias
• Cambridge Companions Online
• Store norske leksikon
• Britannica Academic
• Norsk biografisk leksikon
• The Literary Encyclopedia

The most common styles in the humanities are the Chicago Manual of Style, MLA and APA.

• The Chicago Manual of Style
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association)

See also Søk og Skriv and reference management tools such as Zotero and EndNote.

Books in the library

Arabic linguistics 492.7– (2nd floor, the book tower)

Arabic literary studies 892.7– (1st floor)

Arabic fiction S 47 (4th floor, the book tower)

Subject contact

Ellen Solvik

Books in the library

Shelves for archaeology: Antiquity to the Middle Ages 930–939 · Modern history 940–949 · Art history 732–733 · Religious studies 290–299. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• kulturminnesok.no – Norwegian cultural heritage sites
• fornsok.se – Swedish cultural heritage sites
• Unimus – museum search, archaeology
• DigitaltMuseum – 160 Norwegian museums

Reference works

• Encyclopedia of Archaeological Sciences
• Oxford Handbooks in Archaeology (40 volumes)
• Springer Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology

Open data

• Askeladden – management database for cultural heritage sites
• ARIADNE – European infrastructure
• tDAR – The Digital Archaeological Record
• Open Context

Subject contact

Pål Steiner

Books in the library

Shelves for art history: Art history 700–799, 2nd floor, Library of Humanities. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Reference works

• Oxford Art Online (Grove Dictionary)
• Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
• Norsk kunstnerleksikon
• Norwegian art-history bibliography (NB)
• Marcus – the Picture Collection at UiB
• ArtStor – approx. 3 million images

Subject contact

John-Wilhelm Flattun

Books in the library

Chinese linguistics 495.1–

Chinese literary studies 895.1–

Chinese history 951–

Chinese fiction S 59

Subject contact

Michael Grote

Books in the library

Shelves for classics: Latin linguistics 470–479 · Greek linguistics 480–489 · Latin literature 870–879 · Greek literature 880–889 · Older texts, Latin, Hf 11 · Older texts, Greek, He 12 · Roman archaeology 937 · Greek archaeology 938. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• Gnomon Bibliographic Database (GBD)
• L'Année philologique (APh)
• The Ancient World Online (AWOL)

Reference works

• Brill's New Pauly
• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
• Logeion
• LSJ (Liddell-Scott-Jones)
• Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)
• Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL)

Text collections

• Loeb Classical Library
• Perseus Digital Library · Scaife Viewer
• ToposText

Subject contact

Pål Steiner

Books in the library

• Literary studies 800–809
• Fiction, all languages, S 1–120

Databases

• Bibliography of Norwegian literary research (Littforsk)
• International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
• ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
• More databases for literary studies

Dictionaries and reference works

• Duden
• Kindlers Literaturlexikon

Handbooks

• Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics

Subject contact

Michael Grote

Books in the library

Shelves for cultural studies: Cultural studies and sociology 301 · Custom and tradition 390 · Folklore 398. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Archives

• Skeivt arkiv (UiB)
• The ethno-folkloristic archive
• Arkivportalen
• Norwegian Folklore Collection (UiO)
• SAMLA – multimedia collection

Subject contact

Hanne Marie Johansen

Databases

• Sage Research Methods
• Digital Methods Initiative
• ELMCIP – electronic literature database
• Electronic Literature Organization Repository
• Digital culture – databases (Oria)

The Centre for Digital Narrative (CDN) is a Centre of Excellence (2023–2033) at UiB. See The Living Glossary of Digital Narrative.

Subject contact

Aud Gjersdal

Books in the library

Shelves for English: English linguistics 420–429 · American literature 810–819 · English and American literature 820–829 · Fiction S 12 and S 13. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Reference works

• Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
• Dictionary of Old English (DOE)
• Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms
• British History Online

Text collections

• Early English Books Online (EEBO)

Corpora

• British National Corpus (BNC)
• Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)
• Corpus of Historical American English (COHA)

Subject contact

John-Wilhelm Flattun

Books in the library

Shelves for French: French linguistics 440–449, 2nd floor · French literature 840–849, 1st floor. Fiction S 17 and S 18 · Older texts H. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Subject contact

Gry Ane Vikanes Lavik

Books in the library

Shelves for German: German literature 830–839, 1st floor · German linguistics 430–439, 2nd floor · Fiction S 36 and S 37. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL)
• Duden
• Kindlers Literaturlexikon
• Databases for German studies (Oria)

Subject contact

Michael Grote

Books in the library

Shelves for Italian: Italian linguistics 450–458, 2nd floor · Italian literature 850–858, 1st floor · Fiction S 21 and S 22 · Older texts H. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• Digital Dante
• Oregon Petrarch Open Book
• Italinemo

Subject contact

Gry Ane Vikanes Lavik

Books in the library

Japanese linguistics 495.6–

Japanese literary studies 895.6–

Japanese history 952–

Japanese fiction S 58

Subject contact

Michael Grote

Books in the library

• General linguistics 410–419
• Sociolinguistics and pragmatics 306.44
• Philosophy of language 149.94

See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Handbooks and dictionaries

• Cambridge Handbooks in Language & Linguistics
• Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics
• Oxford Reference Online
• Language Science Press

Databases, archives and corpus tools

• AfBo: A world-wide survey of affix borrowing – database and reference work on affix borrowing across languages
• CLARINO Bergen Centre – archive for searching and storing language data
• DH-lab – digital tools and methods for exploring and analysing the National Library's collection
• Endangered Languages – global platform for documenting, sharing and revitalizing endangered languages
• Ethnologue – database of the world's living languages
• LingBuzz – archive of articles within linguistics
• Linguistic Data Consortium's tools – resource for language-technology tools
• LL-MAP – geographic information system (GIS) for languages
• MultiTree – digital library of linguistic relationships
• ODIN – database of interlinear glossed text (IGT)
• OLAC – metacatalogue of language resources
• PHOIBLE Online – database of phoneme inventories from languages across the world
• Praat – phonetic analysis tool
• Rosetta Project – long-term archiving of human languages
• ScriptSource – reference work for the world's writing systems, with detailed information on scripts, characters and languages
• Surrey Morphology Group's databases – digital language resources and typological databases covering a wide range of linguistic phenomena across many different languages
• Tekstlaboratoriet – corpus collections, databases and other language-technology resources
• The Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures (APiCS) – database and reference work on structural features of pidgin and creole languages
• The Database of the Automated Similarity Judgment Program (ASJP) – linguistic database that collects 40-word lists for various languages of the world
• The Intercontinental Dictionary Series – lexical database with word lists for languages across the world
• The World Loanword Database (WOLD) – database of loanwords
• The Universals Archive – grammatical cabinet of curiosities and archive of language universals
• TROLLing – archive of data, code and associated material used in linguistic research
• Tsammalex – multilingual lexical database of plants and animals
• WALS Online – cross-linguistic database of structural language features

Bibliographies and reference works

• Bibliographie linguistischer Literatur (BLL) – bibliographic database for linguistics
• Glottolog – reference information on the world's languages, especially the lesser-known ones
• GOLD – ontology of basic linguistic concepts
• Linguistic Bibliography Online (BL Online) – bibliographic database for linguistics
• Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) – bibliographic database with abstracts and indexing of linguistic research

Selected journals

• Arkiv för nordisk filologi
• International Journal of Lexicography
• LexicoNordica
• Maal og Minne
• Morphology
• NOA – norsk som andrespråk
• NORskrift – working journal for Nordic language and literature (UiO)
• Nordic Journal of Linguistics
• Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
• Ny Forskning i Grammatikk
• Språk och stil
• Tidsskrift for sprogforskning

Subject contact

Emma Josefin Ölander Aadland

Medieval research is a prioritized interdisciplinary field at UiB (the Medieval Cluster). The University Library is part of the cluster.

Books in the library

H class, older literature (before 1500), 2nd floor, Library of Humanities · Secondary literature: 189, 909.07, 940.1, 948.02, 948.101, 709.02

Primary sources

• Monasterium – charter portal
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• The Avalon Project
• British History Online

Manuscript databases

• DMMapp – Digitized Medieval Manuscripts – portal with links to more than 500 libraries
• Handrit.is – Icelandic and Old Norse manuscripts
• CERL – Consortium of European Research Libraries
• British Library Manuscript Glossary
• Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
• Digital Vatican Library
• The Royal Library, Copenhagen
• Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm
• British Library Manuscripts
• Bodleian Manuscripts
• E-codices Switzerland
• Cambridge Manuscripts
• New York Public Library Medieval Manuscripts
• Goodspeed Chicago
• Trinity College Dublin Early Irish Manuscripts
• Irish Script on Screen
• Huntington Library
• Late Antique and Early Medieval Inscriptions
• Houghton at Harvard

Databases

• Medieval Studies – Oxford Bibliographies
• Brill's Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages

Journals

• Journal of Medieval History
• Collegium Medievale
• Viking – journal of Norse archaeology

Subject contact

John-Wilhelm Flattun · Peder Gammeltoft

Books in the library

Shelves for philosophy: Philosophy 100–199. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• PhilPapers
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture

Subject contact

Michael Grote

Books in the library

Russian linguistics 491.7– (2nd floor, the book tower)

Russian literary studies 891.7– (1st floor)

Russian fiction S 30 and S 31 (4th floor, the book tower)

Dictionaries

Russian–Norwegian/Norwegian–Russian dictionary available via ordnett.no (access requires that you are connected to UiB via VPN)

Tolkovyj slovar' Dalja

Tolkovyj slovar' Ožegova

Etimologiceskij slovar' russkogo jazyka Maksa Vasmera

Subject contact

Ellen Solvik

Books in the library

Shelves for religious studies: Religious studies 200–299, 3rd floor, Library of Humanities. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Reference works

• Brill Dictionary of Religion (print, the reference collection)
• Vocabulary for the Study of Religion

Databases

• Index Theologicus
• RelBib
• Index to the Study of Religions
• ProQuest Religion

Subject contact

Pål Steiner

Books in the library

1st floor: Nordic literary studies 839.5 to 839.82, Old Norse literature 839.6
2nd floor (the book tower): Nordic linguistics 439.5 to 439.8, Old Norse language 439.6
4th floor (the book tower): Older texts H
5th floor (the book tower): Nordic fiction

See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases and bibliographies

• Littforsk – Bibliography of Norwegian literary research (NB)
• Skrivbib – bibliography of Norwegian and Nordic writing research
• LIBRIS – Swedish literary studies and literary history

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

• Bokmålsordboka and Nynorskordboka
• Norsk Ordbok
• Det Norske Akademis Ordbok (NAOB)
• Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Historisk ordbog over det danske sprog
• J. Fritzner's dictionary (Old Norse)
• ONP – Ordbog over det norrøne prosasprog

Archives and text collections

• Arkiv for Dansk Litteratur (ADL)
• Handrit – historical manuscripts
• Heimskringla.no – Nordic source texts
• Henrik Ibsen's writings
• Litteraturbanken.se – Swedish texts
• Ludvig Holberg's writings
• Menota – Medieval Nordic Text Archive
• Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages
• Stories for All Time: The Icelandic fornaldarsögur

Selected journals

• Scandinavian Studies
• Scandinavica – An International Journal of Scandinavian Studies
• European Journal of Scandinavian Studies
• Edda – Nordic journal of literary research
• LexicoNordica
• Maal og Minne
• NOA – norsk som andrespråk
• Nordlit – working journal of literature (UiT)
• NORskrift – working journal for Nordic language and literature (UiO)
• Nordic Journal of Linguistics
• Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
• Ny Forskning i Grammatikk
• Språk och stil
• Arkiv för nordisk filologi
• Rhetorica Scandinavica
• Viking Society Web Publications

Subject contact

Emma Josefin Ölander Aadland

Books in the library

Shelves for Spanish and Latin American studies: Spanish linguistics 460–468, 2nd floor · Spanish literature 860–868, 1st floor · Fiction S 32 and S 33. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Databases

• CLASE – Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
• SciELO
• Handbook of Latin American Studies
• Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes

Reference works

• Real Academia – Diccionario de la Lengua Española

Subject contact

Gry Ane Vikanes Lavik

Books in the library

Shelves for theatre studies: Theatre studies 792. See Library of Humanities for a general overview.

Archives

• The Theatre Archive at UiB
• Sceneweb
• IbsenStage
• Folger Shakespeare Library
• Shakespeare Globe Archive

Databases

• International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance
• Literature Online – 350,000+ texts
• Early English Books Online (EEBO)
• Database of Early English Playbooks (DEEP)

Journals

• Nordic Theatre Studies
• Theatre Research International (Cambridge)
• New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge)

Subject contact

John-Wilhelm Flattun

Research communities

• Centre for Women's and Gender Research (SKOK), UiB
• Skeivt arkiv, UiB
• Kilden – Information Centre for Gender Research
• KVINFO (Denmark)
• KVINNSAM (LIBRIS, Sweden)
• NIKK – Nordic Information on Gender

Subject contact

Hanne Marie Johansen