Trial: eBook Religion Collection until 30.4

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.

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

 

Trial: Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies until 30.4

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 BibliographiesTheses & Dissertations and MECAS Citations Database.

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

Trial: Everyday life and women in America until 27.3

The Everyday Life collection features texts of rare books, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsides. These documents cover a variety of themes including popular culture, social history, family life, education, race, class, and employment. There is also an emphasis on advice literature, and on both women and men’s issues. The primary sources are supported by thematic areas, an interactive chronology, and four essays written by leading academics in the field.

All the family gather while Papa reads from The Bible Date: 1879

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Trial: China: Trade, Politics & Culture until 27.3.

Featuring a range of English-language primary sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, China: Trade, Politics & Culture is designed to give insight into the changes wrought upon China during this period.

With manuscripts encompassing events from the earliest English embassy to the birth and early years of the People’s Republic, key documents relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs service and original reports of the Amherst and Macartney embassies. Correspondence relating to the first Opium War, survivors’ descriptions of the Boxer War and diaries and personal photographs of the Bowra family offer glimpses of real life in China. There are also significant sources describing the lives and work of missionaries in China from 1869-1970, including extensive and fully searchable runs of missionary periodicals.

Feedback: e-library@Helsinki.fi

Trial: Medici.tv until 21.4.2017

Are you interested in classical music, operas or ballets?  Don Giovanni or Swan Lake?

Medici.tv, classical music channel, is available for University of Helsinki until 21.4.
Medici.tv’s library features over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works), including:
– concerts and archived historical concerts
– operas
– ballets
– documentaries, artist portraits and educational programs
– master classes

Feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi

 

What is molecular cloning? How does the centrifuge function?

Are you already familiar with the scientific videos of the JoVE Journal?

JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments offers scientific peer review video articles about the following subject areas in the University of Helsinki: Biology, Immunology and Infection, Medicine and Neuroscience. On trial are Chemistry and Biochemistry till13.3.

Some of the videos have open access. And some of them are made by the researchers of the University of Helsinki.

What is molecular cloning?  You will find the answer in JoVE Science Education. Access is available in Basic Biology, Clinical Skills and Chemistry.

You can send feedback to e-library@helsinki.fi