Research
The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books strives to both promote and support research on children's literature. We offer a research environment with access to the institute's research library, which includes a large collection of Swedish children's and youth literature as well as one of the world's largest collections of theoretical literature within the field. We arrange projects, conferences, workshops, and other events. We also publish the only Swedish scholarly journal on children’s and youth literature as well as a monograph series in collaboration with various publishing houses.
Barnboken - Tidskrift för barnlitteraturforskning
Barnboken is Sweden's only scholarly journal focusing on children's and youth literature. Since 2010 it is an open access e-journal. All articles published since 2005 are available to read and download free of charge at Barnboken's website.
Ongoing project
The Astrid Lindgren Code
Nytt projekt där kompetenser från litteraturvetenskap, datavetenskap och professionell stenografi sammanförs för att tolka Astrid Lindgrens stenogram genom digitala metoder. Projektet är förlagt till Svenska barnboksinstitutet och ska pågå 2020–2022.
A History of Swedish Children's Literature
The Swedish Institute for Children’s Books runs the project A History of Swedish Children's Literature, a reference work outlining the history of Swedish children's and youth literature. The project aims to provide a new historical overview of Swedish children's and youth literature ca. 1300-2010.
The Publication Series Barnbiblioteket Saga
In the project The Barnbiblioteket Saga Archive: Mapping and Visualization of a Swedish Children's Book Series (1899-1970) the importance of the Swedish publication series Barnbiblioteket Saga is examined.