Projects and collaborations

Uppsala University Library collaborates with departments and individual researchers in various projects to support education and research. Many projects involve making collections available by cataloguing, digitising and publishing material on the Alvin or the DiVA platform. This makes the collections of continued benefit to users throughout the world. Some recent projects are described in the list below.

Current collaborative projects

Communicating Medicine: Digitalisation of Swedish Medical Periodicals, 1781–2011
Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
2023–2026

The purpose of the project is to create a database (SweMPer) of Swedish medical periodicals published between 1781 and 2011.

Project description on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond website.

The project and its members at Uppsala University.

Juridikbok.se – webbplats för svensk juridisk litteratur
Digitisation of legal literature that is no longer published in printed formats.
Stiftelsen för tillgängliggörande av juridisk litteratur (Foundation for Making Legal Literature Available), whose governing board consists of representatives of jurisprudence, the legal profession, the judiciary, legal publishers and the university libraries in Gothenburg, Lund, Stockholm, Umeå, Uppsala and Örebro.
2020–

Juridikbok.se – Swedish legal literature online.

Litteraturbanken – the Swedish Literature Bank. Swedish prose fiction, drama and poetry published 1800–1910
Several projects, most notably “New Paths to the Past”
Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
2020–2024

Litteraturbanken’s projects aim to digitise Swedish prose fiction, drama and poetry published separately during the entire 19th century. All the material will be made available for research and the public on three portals providing various novel tools for exploring and downloading the material.

Project description “New Paths to the Past” on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond website.

For current and up-to-date information, see litteraturbanken.se (in Swedish)

Gustav’s Hand: Digitisation, Digital Enhancement and Dissemination of the Gustavian Collection
Department of History, Uppsala University.
Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
2022–2024

The project aims to conserve and digitise the collection, using handwritten text recognition (HTR) to transcribe parts of the collection and make it searchable, to initiate teaching and research on the collection, and to present the collection and the work on it both within and beyond the academic community.

Project description on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond website.

For current and up-to-date information, see gustavshand.ub.uu.se.

Digitisation of the West Norse Manuscripts in Swedish Collections
Department of Scandinavian Languages
Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
2022–2025

The project is in three parts and aims to make the West Norse manuscripts available as images and electronically searchable research material.

Project description on the Riksbankens Jubileumsfond website.

Fennica – Digitisation of the Swedish Era Literature 1488–1809
A collaboration with the National Library of Finland concerning digitisation of works from the oldest Finnish national bibliography that are missing in Finland.
Funded by the National Library of Finland
2023

National Library of Finland description of Fennica.

The Swedish Era Literature collection.

Saint Barthélemy – Swedish Caribbean Colonialism 1784–1878
New research through integration, classification and publication of geographically dispersed and unexplored Swedish colonial archives.
2019–2023

Large quantities of archive documents from the Swedish National Archives and several foreign collections will be made available to research and the public in digital formats.

The digitised material and further information about the project.

Funded by the Swedish Research Council in collaboration with Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities: “Project grant for digitising and making cultural heritage collections available”.

National library collaboration digitising Swedish printed material
A collaboration has begun between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala and Umeå with the goal of digitising Swedish printed material from the 15th century until the present day.