Come and ask about library services, the usage of information services and information seeking. You can ask, for example, how to use the electronic resources at the University, what subject services and databases are available, or what is reference management software.
The workshop is in English and Finnish. You can drop in whenever you like between 3 pm – 5 pm. If you have a laptop, you can bring it along. No preregistration is needed.
Time: Every Monday 3 pm – 5 pm during the term (16.1.-5.6.2017) Place: Helsinki University Library, Kaisa House, 5th floor, computer class 5057
Note! On 23.1. and 13.3. Kaisa House, 2nd floor, room 2024 (no computers).
The service break in Helka Library Database is over.
Customers can again access the database and their own customer account at helsinki.fi/helka.
Loans can be renewed but problems may still occur while making online payments. No overdue fees will be collected between December 21st and January 10th.
Customers can check out and return books in the libraries in the usual manner.
The library cannot, however, register new users or update customer information until the service is fully operational. Overdue fees cannot be paid in the library, either.
All library services are expected to return to normal by Wednesday, January 11th.
Helka back-end-system will be closed down for an upgrade on Tuesday, December 27th 2016 at 10 pm EET.
Search as well as e-material service is available also during the service break in the new Helka website. The following HELKA-services are not available during the break:
viewing information about availability for printed materials
loans
renewals
reservations
paying library fees
updating customer information or getting a new library card
Loans will not fall due between December 21st and January 10th. All loans already have a due date in January. No overdue fees will be collected for days during the service break.
The service break will last several days, and will end by January 9th, 2017.
Loans from the Helsinki University Library can be returned to the Kaisa House library during opening hours. The returns will be registered when the break is over.
Helsinki University Library has acquired more e-books for legal studies and social sciences. The 40 e-books are available in ElgarOnline platform. E-books are available in Helsinki university network and can be used even during the service break in Helka.
International science publisher Elsevier and Finland’s higher education and research institutes have agreed on one year’s extension to negotiations on electronic journals. More time is needed in order to find a solution for advancing open access, which is an extremely important goal for the Finnish research community.
This one year agreement makes it possible for researchers at University of Helsinki to continue using Elsevier’s journals in 2017 while the negotiations continue.
FinELib consortium, which s represents Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, and research institutes in the negotiations, has two primary objectives: Getting the increasing price of scientific journal subscriptions under control, and reaching an agreement that improves the opportunities of Finnish researchers for publishing their articles openly online for all to use.
“During the negotiations this autumn, it became clear that regardless of the will of the international research community, Elsevier is reluctant to develop open publishing business models, and instead wants to maintain the old subscription model. The publisher still sees open publishing as a marginal operating model, and not as the future of scientific publishing. It is a delaying tactic from the publisher to charge high additional fees for open articles when higher education and research institutes already pay constantly increasing subscription fees. Now we demand that Elsevier over the next year shows the ability to change and take a new direction towards open access which research community needs and expects.” says Keijo Hämäläinen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and chairman of the negotiations.
Finland’s scientific community has given its support to FinELib’s negotiation goals. Released in late November, the Tiedonhinta.fi site has received 2700 signatures from the scientific research community. The signatories abstain from refereeing and editorial duties for the journals of the publishers involved in FinELib’s negotiations until FinELib can reach the negotiation goals.
“Open publishing and the price of scientific knowledge are themes that are emphasised in similar negotiations all over the world, for example in the current negotiations in Germany” says Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, a member of the negotiation group and Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland. “Perseverance and a united front are the only way that the scientific community may affect large commercial publishers and effect a permanent change in the models of scientific publishing.”
One year extension to the agreement makes it possible to find an open access model that genuinely promotes open access publishing without increasing the cost of publishing. If no agreement on open access is reached during 2017, the Finnish scientific community might at the end of year 2017 lose access to many important scientific journals.
Further information:
Keijo Hämäläinen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki, chair of the contract negotiation group, tel. + 358 29 415 0640, Keijo.Hamalainen(at)helsinki.fi
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Director, National Library of Finland/Library Network Services, tel. +358 50 552 3056, kristiina.hormia(at)helsinki.fi
Researchers of University of Helsinki can order personal librarian to help with Open Access publishing and self-archiving to TUHAT / HELDA.
Other topics to discuss about could be for example the requirements of research funding organizations concerning open access publishing or choosing the way to publish openly.
Please, fill out the form and make an order by the end of the year 2016. Appointment can be arranged during December 2016 – January 2017, exact time will be confirmed later according to your wishes.
You can find more information about open access and related services in the Open Access guide.
Holiday season opening hours begin on Monday December 19th at the Helsinki University Library. We will return to normal hours on Monday January 16th, 2017.
Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries are closed from Dec24th to January 1st. Kaisa House as well as Learning centres Aleksandria and Minerva are open between holidays December 27th-30th.
New Helka interface that has been tested at Helsinki University Library during the autumn semester, replaces the old Helka interface at the beginning of December.
Both the library collections data and the customer information you may have had in the old Helka database are now available in the new Helka.
Two Searches, Single Interface
New Helka offers two different searches. Through the Libraries’ Collections Search you can search all print and electronic collections in all Helka. The search includes journals and databases.
Through Article Search, you can search for international articles. Article Search can also find references to publications, which are not necessarily included in the collections of Helka libraries.
Access to Journals with University User ID
If you have a University of Helsinki user account, you can access and read the e-journals and the e-books acquired by university. These electronic resources can be accessed also via remote access. (Read more)
If you do not have the university user account, you can access e-journals and e-books in the Helka libraries.
Your Account in the New Helka
By logging into New Helka you can access Your Account information: View your loans and save your searches. Customers can renew loans, make reservations or pay the accrued fees online. In New Helka you can also save lists of your favorite referenrences or create scheduled alerts on any saved searches.
Login is possible either with the university user ID or with library card number to which the user has connected the self-chosen PIN code. If you have not yet linked your library card with a PIN code of your choice, you can do it in the old Helka.
Nelli Search Portal Deactivates
The national Search Portal Nelli will be shut down at the end of 2016, as the National Library of Finland will no longer maintain the service. Nelli service will be deactivated gradually and the service can experience downtime in December. You can find the journals and databases you’ve used to search in Nelli already in New Helka.
The library welcomes all customer feedback on the new Helka interface and the discoverability of library’s collections online. You are encouraged to use the Feedback Form online.
Further information on nthe new Helka and other access services related matters: IT Services Manager Pasi Keski-Nisula, tel. +358 2941 26656, pasi.keski-nisula@helsinki.fi
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Welcome to our information seeking workshop!
