Still time: Ebrary Academic Complete is on trial for Helsinki University staff and students

Take a look and test: Ebrary Academic Complete on trial until the 31st of October!

Ebrary Academic Complete contains over 80 000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas from leading academic publishers (eg. Oxford University Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press,Princeton University Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press, Elsevier Ltd.; Brill Academic Publishers; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Sage Publications, Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. etc.)

Trial from 13th of September until 31st of October, 2013

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

 

New trial: World Scientific Publishing ~ 30.11.2013

World Scientific Publishing is a leading independent publisher that collaborates with  organizations such as The Nobel Foundation, US National Academies Press and its subsidiary Imperial College Press amongst others.

Next to all e-books users will see the Open lock symbol that means that users are allowed to access, use, download and print content without restrictions.

Please kindly note that the only exceptions are textbooks that are not available in e-format.

Trial period: 30.9.2013-30.11.2013

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

New feature in Dawsonera eBook platform

Now it is possible to download Dawsonera ebooks directly to Apple and Android devices.

Helsinki University Library currently owns over 1200 eBook titles on Dawsonera, and there are also 270,000+ titles which can be previewed for up to five minutes. Owned titles with full access are marked with  green padlock unlocked,  titles only available for 5 minutes preview are marked with purple padlock locked

By default Dawsonera shows the entire catalogue –  to view  titles only available for Helsinki University, choose the “eBook Catalogue” tab. Our library’s Dawsonera eBooks you can also find in Helka.
Choose the icon to the left to Download (= borrow), and the icon to the right to ReadOnline (= read on screen):

  dawsonera

Choose the length of the download (1-3 days) from the drop down menu and click download.  For detailed instructions please see user guides for Apple and Android devices.

More user guides you can find in  Dawsonera Help.

Summer reads: Springer eBooks and MyCopy-service

SpringerLink My Copy –service  allows library patrons with Helsinki University ID to order a personal, printed-on-demand softcover edition of an eBook for EUR 24.99 (including shipping and handling). Helsinki University staff and students can order MyCopy books with their own credit cards. The book will also need to be part of the Helsinki University Library’s licenced eBook package(s).

For summer reading Springer offers new eBook titles, see more:

New eBooks: Springer 2013 eBooks trial ~ 31.8.2013

 

 

 

New eBooks: Springer 2013 eBooks trial ~ 31.8.2013

Springer offers complimentary trial access to eBooks published in 2013. You have access to all 13 English language eBook collections for copyright year 2013 content in SpringerLink. Collections are:

Behavioral Sciences
Biomedical & Life Sciences
Business & Economics
Chemistry & Material Science
Computer Science
Earth & Environmental Science
Energy
Engineering
Humanities, Social Science & Law
Mathematics & Statistics
Medicine
Physics & Astronomy
Professional and Applied Computing

The access will expire on 31st of August.

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

Trial: World eBook Library ~ 17.5.2013

World eBook Library is a collection of over 2 million eBooks for historical research in humanities, sciences and technology. The vast collection features among many others digitised eBook editions of out-of-print books originally published by top ranking universities.

Trial: 3.4. – 17.5.2013

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

Orlando – database of women’s writing ~ free access up to March 31st

Cambridge University Press if offering free access to online database Orlando. The access is for the month of March and will expire on 31st.

Your login information is below:

Username:  womenshistory2013
Password: orlando 

Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a highly dynamic and rich resource for researchers, students, and readers with an interest in literature, women’s writing, or cultural history more generally. With about five and a half million words of text, it is full of factual, critical, and interpreted material. This first release of Orlando includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and international men, whose writing was an important, sometimes a shaping, element in a particular writing climate. Orlando also includes more than thirty thousand dated items representing events and processes (in the accounts of these writers, but also in the areas of history, science, medicine, economics, the law, and other contexts).

Orlando provides new biographical and critical accounts of the lives and works of its subjects, together with contextual materials relevant to critical and historical readings. It fully documents the materials it references, and it includes a bibliographical database of more than twenty thousand titles.