Swedish research databases your AI assistant can search
Swedish researchers and students write about Swedish society, history and health using sources that are excellent but spread across agencies. Kahubi connects to Riksarkivet’s transcribed records, Statistics Sweden (SCB), Kolada’s municipal indicators, the Riksdag’s documents, the Libris union catalogue, the Korp corpus of historical Swedish newspapers, the Riksbank, SMHI observations, Nationalmuseum and the Human Protein Atlas.
Ask in Swedish or English. Answers cite archive reference codes, SCB table ids, Kolada KPI ids, Riksdag document ids and Libris records, which is what your supervisor and examiner will look for.
16 sources you can connect
Archives & heritage
- Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives)Search AI-transcribed handwritten records from the 1600s onward, the national archive catalogue, church books, court records and more.Official server
- Kansallisarkisto (National Archives of Finland)Full-text search of 7.8 million transcribed pages: Finnish court records 1610–1931, crown bailiff accounts and medieval charters.Official server
- Libris (Kungliga biblioteket)The Swedish national union catalogue: books, journals, theses, maps and music in Swedish libraries.Hosted by Kahubi
- Kubhist historical newspapers (Språkbanken Korp)Full-text concordance search in digitised Swedish newspapers 1645–1926, by title and decade.Hosted by Kahubi
- Nationalmuseum (Sweden)Sweden’s national museum of art and design: paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and applied art.Hosted by Kahubi
Life science
- GBIF (biodiversity occurrences)2.5 billion species occurrence records from museums, surveys and citizen science worldwide.Hosted by Kahubi
- iNaturalistCitizen-science observations with photos, research-grade identifications and places.Hosted by Kahubi
- Human Protein AtlasWhere every human protein is expressed: tissues, single cells, blood, brain, cancers and subcellular location.Hosted by Kahubi
Official statistics
- EurostatEU official statistics: economy, demography, trade, health and NUTS regions.Community server
- Statistics Sweden (SCB)Swedish official statistics: population, economy, labour market, education and environment.Hosted by Kahubi
- Sveriges RiksbankPolicy rate, exchange rates and interbank rates from the Swedish central bank.Hosted by Kahubi
- Kolada (Swedish municipal indicators)6,000 key indicators for every Swedish municipality and region: schools, care, finances, environment.Hosted by Kahubi
- SMHI meteorological observationsSwedish weather station observations: temperature, precipitation, wind, snow, back to the 1800s for some stations.Hosted by Kahubi
- OpenAQ air qualityGround-level air-quality measurements from government and research monitors worldwide.Community server
Questions researchers ask these sources
“Search the transcribed court records for mentions of trolldom in Dalarna between 1660 and 1680 and list the reference codes.”
Matching passages from handwriting-recognised pages, each with its archive reference code and a link to the page image, plus a note where the transcription looks unreliable.
Riksarkivet“Search the Turku town court records of the 1650s for cases of slander (ärekränkning) and give me the volume and page for each.”
Court-record pages in the original Swedish, each cited by series, volume signum, year and page, with a link to the page image in Astia.
Kansallisarkisto“Which Swedish doctoral theses on folk high schools (folkhögskolor) have been published since 2000?”
Libris records with title, author, year, publisher and record link, so you can see which libraries hold each thesis.
Libris“How did Swedish newspapers write about kolera in the 1830s compared with the 1850s?”
Concordance hits per decade with newspaper title, date and the surrounding sentence, plus total counts so you can compare frequency across periods.
Kubhist historical newspapers“Which works by Carl Larsson does Nationalmuseum hold, and from which years?”
Artworks with title, date and inventory number, linked to the collection viewer.
Nationalmuseum“Compare youth unemployment in Sweden, Finland and Spain from 2015 to 2024.”
The dataset code, the unit and age band used, and yearly values per country.
Eurostat
Frequently asked questions
Kan jag ställa frågor på svenska?
Can it find Swedish theses and dissertations?
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