Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
GeoRef ja Geofacets are available for the University of Helsinki in the platform of Engineering Village to the end of September.
The GeoRef database provides access to the geoscience literature of the world. GeoRef contains over 3.8 million references to geoscience journal articles, books, maps, conference papers, reports and theses.
Geofacets offers over 1.5 milion maps, figures and tables sourced from esteemed scientific publications.
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Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon Online is based on the three reference works:
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch [Dictionary of German Literature Online. Biographical and Bibliographic Handbook]: 42 vols. (1968-2017)
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Biographisch-bibliographisches Handbuch [Dictionary of German Literature. The 20th Century. Biographical and Bibliographic Handbook]: 27 vols.so far (since2000)
Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon. Das Mittelalter [Dictionary of German Literature. The Middle Ages]: 8 vols. (2011-16)
More than 70,000 articles are edited and searchable in this database.
And all in all articles of over 90 volumes will be compiled.
In addition, the database will be continuously updated and extended with bibliographic data from De Gruyter’s Germanistik Online database
User Guide you can find: https://www.degruyter.com/page/867
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Nano Online: Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science at the Nanoscale is available in University of Helsinki until 30.6.
nano Online offers a comprehensive coverage of the subject area nano science and technology. This database allows access to research results from all disciplines active in this area – including physics, chemistry and materials science as well as engineering and medicine.
The database includes more than 1,200 entries (an equivalent of more than 17,000 print pages) and annual updates of 200 entries (about 2,000 print pages) will supply state-of-the-art research results.
User Guide you can find: https://www.degruyter.com/page/867
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Parliamentary Papers includes House of Commons Parliamentary Papers and House of Lords Parliamentary Papers.
This database is the most detailed primary source for the past two centuries, for Britain, its colonies and the wider world. It is a major part of the historical record. The Parliamentary papers influenced public opinion and social and political philosophy, and provided a forum for ideas for hundreds of thinkers, among them Marconi, Keynes, and Beveridge. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed.
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The Textual History of the Bible Online (THBO) provides a cross-searchable platform with information regarding the textual history, textual character, translation techniques, manuscripts, and the importance of each textual witness for each book of the Hebrew Bible, including its deutero-canonical scriptures.
In addition, it includes articles on the history of research, the editorial histories of the Hebrew Bible, as well as other aspects of text-critical research and its auxiliary fields, such as papyrology, codicology, and linguistics.
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Defining Gender 1490-1910 provides access to original British source material of history, literature, sociology and education.
Literary Manuscripts: Berg. The Berg Collection´s unique manuscripts are unavailable in any medium elsewhere. They are supplemented by some rare printed materials, including early editions annotated by the authors. Each author collection is included in its entirety, allowing users to browse and search the manuscripts as they would in the Berg Reading Room. Authors represented in this collection include among others : Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
Literary Manuscripts: Leeds. This project offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Perdita Manuscripts is produced in association with the Perdita Project based at the University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University. “Perdita” means “lost woman” and the quest of the Perdita Project has been to find early modern women authors who were “lost” because their writing exists only in manuscript form.
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey.
Shakespeare in Performance showcases rare and unique prompt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library. These prompt books tell the story of Shakespeare’s plays as they were performed in theatres throughout Great Britain, the United States and internationally, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Seventeen performances of particular cultural importance have been selected as case studies, including additional archival material such as photographs, costume designs and music scores. These case studies include David Garrick’s revised 1772 production of Hamlet, Henry Irving’s famous 1879 production of The Merchant of Venice, and Laurence Olivier’s Academy Award-winning cinema release of Hamlet in 1948.
Victorian Popular Culture is a portal comprised of four modules, inviting users into the darkened halls, small backrooms, big tops and travelling venues that hosted everything from spectacular shows and bawdy burlesque, to the world of magic, spiritualist séances, optical entertainments and the first moving pictures.
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Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda available in University of Helsinki until 12.4.
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
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Enjoy 30 days of full Access to JoVE Science Education: Advanced Biology. The trial starts 15th of March, and is available via the University of Helsinki Library.
Advanced Biology covers the following subject fields:
Essentials of Neuroscience
Essentials of Developmental Biology
Essentials of Genetics
Essentials of Cell Biology
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EBook Religion Collection features more than 6,900 e-books from trusted publishers covering a broad range of religious subjects including philosophy, ethics, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, religious texts and more. This dynamic compilation of texts explores religious beliefs, faith, cultural systems and world views and provides a key resource to meet the needs of students and scholars in their research.
Titles are available from a variety of academic, university and religious publishers, Oxford University Press, University of California Press, Brill Academic Press, De Gruyter, InterVarsity Press, Harvard University Press, Society of Biblical Literature, State University of New York Press, Peter Lang and The Jewish Publication Society.
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Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies provides an index to journal and newspaper articles, books, research and scholarly discourse on the culture and politics of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
A valuable resource for a variety of disciplines, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies (MECAS) combines sources from these databases: School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) Library Catalogue (1900-present), Middle East Bibliography (1946-2001), Middle East Book Bibliographies, Theses & Dissertations and MECAS Citations Database.
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