University of Helsinki
The large dictionary of the French on trial during November. Le Grand Robert includes 100 000 words, 325 000 citations ja 350 000 senses.
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Are you interested in theatre? Digital Theatre Plus on trial until 28.11.
Digital Theatre Plus contains recent British theatre productions captured authentically onscreen in high definition.
Plays of the following theatres are included: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Royal Opera House, Broadway Digital Archive and National Jewish Theatre. You will find plays, excerpts of the plays, interviews of actors and actresses, musicals, opera and ballets in this database.
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On trial Global Jewish Database Online, Responsa Project until 29.11.
University of Helsinki has access to Global Jewish Database, Responsa Project during November.
The Online Responsa Project encompasses the best of the Jewish sources representing a period of over three thousand years of heritage and tradition. All texts are fully and professionally typed in, proofread and hyper-linked.
The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.
The overall volume of the online project, which is frequently updated, is now reaching to 200 million words. The ‘Shut’ includes 100,000 Halachic laws over a period of thousand years, from all over the world. Extensive biographical data on the authors of Responsa texts have been added as well.
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On trial Classic Arabic Texts Online until 22.11.
Classic Arabic Texts Online is available in the University of Helsinki until 22.11.
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On trial STATISTA until 30.11.
Statista is extremely large statistics portal. Providing you with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources, the focus is firmly based on professional, clear, quick and consistent results. Customers have access to quantitative data from more than 600 industries like agriculture, chemicals and resources, health and pharmaceuticals, technology and telecommunications, consumer goods and media and advertising. Included in all account types: unlimited download, source citation and direct use in PowerPoint and Excel.
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On trial IMF -database
On trial IMF -database until 2.11.2014.
IMF -database includes amongst other things research reports and publications, IMF eLibrary data and statistics. You can get predefined data reports by country, topic or data source.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 188 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
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On Trial Euromonitor International Passport (~30.9)
Euromonitor International Passport is a market research database which features millions of statistics and in-depth reports on 27 industries with demographic, macro and socioeconomic data and analysis on consumers and economies in 210 countries worldwide. Passport supports teaching and research across a range of disciplines: international business & marketing, economics, social studies, humanities, geography, food marketing and international relations.
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Trial: SciVal (~21.9)
Elsevier’s new generation of SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 4,600 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables you to navigate the world of research and devise an optimal plan to drive and analyze your performance.
You need to create your username and password by registering when accessing SciVal at first time.
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Trial Period til 21 st September.
Feedback: aija.kaitera [at] helsinki.fi
New platform in LION
LION -Literature Online is now available on ProQuest’s platform.
LION is a library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, and criticism and reference resources. Criticism section includes the ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature).
On Trial: Citation Connection in Web of Science (~4.7.2014)
THE TRIAL PERIOD IS OVER!
In Citation Connection includes the following databases:
BIOSIS Citation Index: Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation.
Current Contents Connect including complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals and books.
Derwent Innovations Index: Value-added patent information from Derwent World Patent Index as well as patent citation information from Patents Citation Index.
Zoological Record: The world´s leading taxonomic reference and oldest continuing database of animal biology.
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi