Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
Libraries’ opening hours on Monday, Dec 5th :
– Main Library Kaisa House 8 am – 6 pm,
customer service 10 am – 6 pm
– Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries 9 am – 4 pm
– Learning Centre Minerva 8 am – 3.45 pm
– Learning Centre Aleksandria 8 am – 5.45 pm.
On Independence Day Dec 6th all locations are closed. Aleksandria can be accessed with a magnetic key.
Have you changed your name or university? Are there others with the same name? Do you repeatedly fill in the same information?
How is ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) useful for you?
1) You get a permanent and unique digital identification number, that can be used in different services. You can link your other researcher IDs (e.g. Scopus) to ORCID.
2) ORCID can track your publications regardless of name change or different forms of your name. ORCID can handle any type of scholarly publication from articles to video diaries, from books to blogs.
3) Managing your publications becomes much easier in the long run. Tranferring information between databases is much faster. You can give trusted organisations, e.g. universities, libraries and publishers the right to see and add information.
4) You own your own information on ORCID. ORCID is a non-profit organisation registered in the USA.
5) The usefulness of ORCID increases all the time. The University of Helsinki, HUCH and many other Finnish organisations have signed an agreement to use ORCID. Internationally there are over 2 million ORCID members,
6) Many research funders, including the WellcomeTrust in Great Britain and Vetenskapsrådet in Sweden demand an ORCID identifier in applications.
Create your own researcher identifier at orcid.org. If you already have an ORCID account, we recommend that you add your identifier to your TUHAT profile. Read more about the benefits of ORCID on Impactstory blog. Information in Finnish on https://tutkijatunniste.fi/
The approaching turn of the year shortens the library opening hours, but extends the loan period of books. Due date will be no earlier than January 11th, 2017, when you borrow or renew your loans
There is no due dates between December 5th and 7th because of the Independence Day, so if you borrow a short loan on Thursday December 1st, you may hold it for a week.
Set your PIN code and renew your loans in new Helka-database
The new Helka will be released on November 30th, and you can already check it out at https://helka.finna.fi/
The default code 1234 for a Helka card will no longer work in the new Helka database. If you haven’t already set a PIN code, please do it now at https://helka.linneanet.fi/logon.htm
Library opening hours at the turn of the year
Library locations have exceptional opening hours from Monday December 19th. We will return to the normal opening hours on Monday January 16th, 2017.
Check the opening hours on the library website.
Nelli Search Portal will be deactivated at the end of 2016. The service is terminated as the National Library of Finland will no longer be providing the maintenance and support for it.
At University of Helsinki Nelli portal will be replaced by new Helka interface. All journals and other materials you’ve used to search for in Nelli are already available in Helka.
After December the 31th, 2016, you can no longer conduct searches in the Nelli portal, log in to the service, nor access any material you may have save in My Space in Nelli portal.
If you have any material saved in Nelli My Space, you can move them to other services by December 31th, 2016. To extract your material from Nelli, please follow the instructions.
The Bibliometrics Seminar is organised by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Council for Finnish University Libraries, the University of Helsinki Library and CSC – IT Center for Science Ltd.
The theme of the seminar is research evaluation and bibliometric tools. The seminar is free of charge, and the programme is especially targeted at everyone working with bibliometrics. We warmly welcome participants from among researchers; university, polytechnics and research organisation’s research administration and libraries, the Ministry of Education and Culture; as well as from organisations granting research funding.
The seminar is bilingual: some speeches will be held in English, others in Finnish.
Time: 16th December, 2016, from 9.00 to 15.30. NB! The timetable has been changed!
Venue: Minerva Square, Siltavuorenpenger 5A, Helsinki
Register here by the 8th of December, 2016!
| 9.00–9.30 | Morning coffee | |
| 9.30–9.35 | Opening Speech of the Seminar (in Finnish) | Tua Hindersson-Söderholm, Hanken School of Economics |
| 9.35–10.00 | The Stages of Development in Bibliometrics in Finland (in Finnish) | Maria Forsman |
| 10.00–10.45 |
National and local bibliometric services in the future: (in Finnish) The bibliometric services offered by the Ministry of Education Making use of bibliometric tools in the university |
Jukka Haapamäki, Ministry of Education and Culture Eva Isaksson, Helsinki University Library |
| 10.45–11.45 |
Altmetrics – What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What We Need to Know Altmetric Tools in Finnish university libraries – case examples |
Kim Holmberg, University of Turku Jukka Englund, University of Helsinki Library; N.N. |
| 11.45–12.45 | Lunch break | |
| 12.45–13.45 | Bibliometrics and Current Research Information Systems | Gunnar Sivertsen, Nordic Institute for Studies in Innovation, Research and Education (NIFU) |
| 13.45–14.15 | Coffee break | |
| 14.15–15.30 | Panel discussion: Bibliometrics and Publication Forum as criteria for research evaluation | Lea Ryynänen-Karjalainen, The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (chair); Keijo Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki; Sari Kivistö, University of Tampere; Timo Korkeamäki, Hanken; Gunnar Sivertsen. NIFU; Otto Auranen, Academy of Finland |
Remote participation in the seminar / web conferencing is possible. Details about remote participation will be announced later on agenda site.
Customers of the Helsinki University Library have one week left to respond to the customer survey. The survey is intended to determine what the Library’s customers think about the current library services and what they would like to see improved.
Link to the English Survey: bit.ly/HULibCustomerSurvey
According to Service Director Kirsi Luukkanen, the survey is very useful for the Library, which will then be able to focus its resources on the services which its customers believe should be improved. In past years, the attainability and findability of electronic resources has been a particular focus. The number of electronic books has doubled, and their use has nearly tripled over the past few years.
This year, the Library hopes to gain more feedback on the services of the Library which support research work. “We are asking our customers what they think about our services relating to research data, open publishing and the evaluation of research,” says Luukkanen, hoping that as many researchers as possible take the survey.
The library has exceptional opening hours on All Saints’ Day:
On Friday November 4th
– Main Library Kaisa House open 8 am – 6 pm, customer service 10 am – 6 pm
– Kumpula Campus Library open 9 am – 4 pm
– Meilahti Campus Library Terkko open 9 am – 4 pm
– Viikki Campus Library open 9 am – 4 pm
– Learning Centre Aleksandria 8 am – 5:45 pm
– Learning Centre Minerva 8 am – 5:45 pm.
Libraries and learning centres are closed on Saturday November 5th.
The Helsinki University Library has already purchased lots of e-books published by De Gruyter. Now the whole e-book collection (about 38 000 books) is at your disposal in the Helsinki University network for a four month period. This offer also includes partner press content: Harvard University Press, Princeton University Press, Columbia University Press, University of Pennsylvania Press, University of Toronto Press.
De Gruyter publishes material in the following branches of science: arts and humanities, social sciences, mathematics, natural science, medicine and law. You can browse the e-book collection on the basis of the subject areas. The collection is updated monthly.
The books are available from the beginning of October 2016 until the end of January 2017, after which the most heavily used books will be selected to the library’s collection.
Availability: 3.10.2016-31.1.2017
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi
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