Databases
Discover databases, dictionaries and datasets highlighting women's history and gender research that KvinnSam produces or has contributed to. These valuable digital resources are freely available to researchers, students and anyone interested in women's history perspectives.
On the Gothenburg University Library's website you can find more databases in the field of gender studies.
KVINNSAM is an interdisciplinary database of literature, containing references to Swedish and international research within gender studies and women’s history. It is based on the holdings of the Gothenburg University Library, primarily its printed materials. The database is part of the Swedish national catalogue, Libris, and contains around 170 000 references, making it the largest database of its kind in the Nordic region.
All materials are indexed using controlled subject headings from the KVINNSAM subject headings list, KAO.
The database is produced by KvinnSam at the Gothenburg University Library.
The Queerlit database is a reference database for Swedish fiction including depictions of same-sex desire, LGBTQI individuals and narratives that challenge binary gender norms. Queerlit compiles first editions of fiction published in Sweden, in Swedish or in any of the Swedish national minority languages.
The database covers all types of literary works, regardless of audience or format. Queerlit also includes references to autobiographical texts, letters, diaries and similar materials that substantially address the thematic fields of the database.
Queerlit was developed as part of a research project funded by the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation, and is available both through its own interface and as part of the Swedish national library catalogue, LIBRIS.
GENA is a dataset of doctoral theses in gender studies and women’s history published between 1960 and 2022 at Swedish universities. The full dataset is available for download via the Swedish National Data Service (SND).
Previously, GENA was a searchable database produced by KvinnSam in collaboration with the Swedish Secretariat for Gender Research.
To search for dissertations in gender studies and women’s history, you can use the KVINNSAM database.
Through the Alvin platform, you can access materials from the KvinnSam archives as well as several other cultural heritage institutions. Alvin is developed and maintained by the Uppsala University Library in collaboration with the Gothenburg University Library and the Lund University Library. The platform includes archive inventories, digitised materials and photographs from our collections.
SKBL contains biographical articles on more than 2 000 Swedish women, or women who have been active in Sweden. The dictionary provides biographical information on origin, education, activities, organisation affiliations, contacts and awards, as well as references and information about archives and memorials.
SKBL was produced at the University of Gothenburg by a project group consisting of researchers (historians and literary scholars) and librarians, with funding from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation . The articles are written by researchers and writers from across Sweden. KvinnSam is the administrative managing body of SKBL.
The History of Nordic Women’s Literature (NKL) contains articles on more than 800 authors from the Nordic countries. NKL covers women writers from the Icelandic sagas to the 1990s. The digital version of the NKL has been provided with subject headings and information on time period and country, providing the opportunity for thematic searching and more.In addition to the Danish and Swedish versions, the work has now been translated into English. The database is based on the original five-volume printed edition and has been supplemented with newly written articles.
FRAmes on GENder (formerly FRAGEN) is a full-text database containing feminist texts from the second wave of the women’s movement. The collection includes books, articles and pamphlets from 29 EU countries. Researchers from each country have selected ten texts considered representative of the development of the women’s movement in the second half of the 20th century. In total, the database contains nearly 300 texts. It was created as part of the EU-funded research project QUING (2008–2011).