International Master's Programme

A multi-disciplinary scholarly database that offers access to peer-reviewed academic journals, magazines, reports, books and monographs, trade publications and other resources.

Database including social anthropology, sociology, criminology, social work, social psychology and gender studies.

Urban Studies Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.

Nordic Africa Institute library offers remote access to a few of their licensed resources: Africa-Wide Information, African Writers Series, EiU Country Reports (Africa), SA Media, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa (Aluka). Available for students and researchers at Nordic educational institutions. Also see their other resources which of several are freely accessible: http://www.nai.uu.se/library/

Database containing material on human rights violations and atrocity crimes. Covers the years 1900-2010 and worldwide.

Statistiska Centralbyrån / Statistics Sweden (SCB)s list of international statistics, presented on a national level.

"Eurostat’s mission is to provide the European Union with a high-quality statistical information service." EU's statistical organizational agency compiles statistics within a number of various fields related to the EU countries. It's possible to choose thematic statistics about the EU countries. You can find the Eurostat Yearbook here as well.

Public opinion polls from the EU countries. European Commission.

OECD’s dynamic and comprehensive statistical annual showing a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries.

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Access the full text of the books, periodicals and statistical databases. [LU staff and students only - log in with STIL/LUCAT]

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, together with other datasets cited in the data catalog.

The World DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. You can create you own queries, generate tables, charts and maps and easily save, embed and share them.

University of Bern. Collections of political and institutional data. It consists of (mostly) annual data, it might vary between the different datasets. Most data sets contains some additional demographic, socio- and economic variables.

The IMF publishes a range of time series data on IMF lending, exchange rates and other economic and financial indicators. Manuals, guides, and other material on statistical practices at the IMF, in member countries, and of the statistical community at large are also available.

Provided by the University of Gothenburg. See "Data links" and "Data".

United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Contains statistics of foreign direct investments for 196 countries.

Search engine for United Nations digital resources - such as documents, publications and different types of data.