You have access to MLA International Bibliography in ProQuest interface at the beginning of the New Year 2017. Because of the system upgrade it is not possible to update the new link in Helka. Access is possible directly in ProQuest.
You have access to PsycINFO and PsycARTICLES in OVID interface at the beginning of the New Year 2017. Because of the system upgrade it is not possible to update the new link in Helka. Access is possible directly in OVID.
Helka back-end-system will be closed down for an upgrade on Tuesday, December 27th 2016 at 10 pm EET.
Search as well as e-material service is available also during the service break in the new Helka website. The following HELKA-services are not available during the break:
viewing information about availability for printed materials
loans
renewals
reservations
paying library fees
updating customer information or getting a new library card
Loans will not fall due between December 21st and January 10th. All loans already have a due date in January. No overdue fees will be collected for days during the service break.
The service break will last several days, and will end by January 9th, 2017.
Loans from the Helsinki University Library can be returned to the Kaisa House library during opening hours. The returns will be registered when the break is over.
Helsinki University Library has acquired more e-books for legal studies and social sciences. The 40 e-books are available in ElgarOnline platform. E-books are available in Helsinki university network and can be used even during the service break in Helka.
International science publisher Elsevier and Finland’s higher education and research institutes have agreed on one year’s extension to negotiations on electronic journals. More time is needed in order to find a solution for advancing open access, which is an extremely important goal for the Finnish research community.
This one year agreement makes it possible for researchers at University of Helsinki to continue using Elsevier’s journals in 2017 while the negotiations continue.
FinELib consortium, which s represents Finnish universities, universities of applied sciences, and research institutes in the negotiations, has two primary objectives: Getting the increasing price of scientific journal subscriptions under control, and reaching an agreement that improves the opportunities of Finnish researchers for publishing their articles openly online for all to use.
“During the negotiations this autumn, it became clear that regardless of the will of the international research community, Elsevier is reluctant to develop open publishing business models, and instead wants to maintain the old subscription model. The publisher still sees open publishing as a marginal operating model, and not as the future of scientific publishing. It is a delaying tactic from the publisher to charge high additional fees for open articles when higher education and research institutes already pay constantly increasing subscription fees. Now we demand that Elsevier over the next year shows the ability to change and take a new direction towards open access which research community needs and expects.” says Keijo Hämäläinen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki and chairman of the negotiations.
Finland’s scientific community has given its support to FinELib’s negotiation goals. Released in late November, the Tiedonhinta.fi site has received 2700 signatures from the scientific research community. The signatories abstain from refereeing and editorial duties for the journals of the publishers involved in FinELib’s negotiations until FinELib can reach the negotiation goals.
“Open publishing and the price of scientific knowledge are themes that are emphasised in similar negotiations all over the world, for example in the current negotiations in Germany” says Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, a member of the negotiation group and Director of Library Network Services at the National Library of Finland. “Perseverance and a united front are the only way that the scientific community may affect large commercial publishers and effect a permanent change in the models of scientific publishing.”
One year extension to the agreement makes it possible to find an open access model that genuinely promotes open access publishing without increasing the cost of publishing. If no agreement on open access is reached during 2017, the Finnish scientific community might at the end of year 2017 lose access to many important scientific journals.
Further information:
Keijo Hämäläinen, Vice-Rector of the University of Helsinki, chair of the contract negotiation group, tel. + 358 29 415 0640, Keijo.Hamalainen(at)helsinki.fi
Kristiina Hormia-Poutanen, Director, National Library of Finland/Library Network Services, tel. +358 50 552 3056, kristiina.hormia(at)helsinki.fi
Researchers, teachers and students of the University of Helsinki have access to 60,000 ebook titles of Russian ebook platform Biblioclub – University Library Online during one-year period. The ebook collection consists of scholarly ebooks and e-textbooks from leading Russian publishers in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The vast collection covers not only present-day research but also digitized material. Take a look what eastern neighbor has to offer in research in political science, linguistics, literary science, history, mathematics and cultural studies!
In addition, the collection contains encyclopedias, audiobooks and educational multimedia.
Use advanced search to find ebook titles or browse the collection in Sections on the left on the main page. You can read e-books online or download them in PDF format. The download limit for some of the books is 10 % / day.
Access to the collection is available until the end of November 2017 after which the 200 most used books will be selected to the Helsinki University library e-book collection. The online subscription to Biblioclub has been financed with support from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki.
The National Library of Finland is carrying out a brief feedback survey on Finna search service – the new Helka’s back-end system – on December 7th – December 27th 2016. It will take about five to ten minutes to complete. The results will be used to further develop Finna.
Among the survey participants, there will be a prize draw of a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7″ 4G 32GB New Edition.
Welcome to participate in the survey! Your opinion is important!
Finna.fi brings together the collections of Finnish archives, libraries and museums. Currently, Finna includes more than 100 organisations and over 11 million searchable items. The amount of material grows steadily, when new organisations join Finna. The National Library of Finland is responsible for developing and maintaining Finna.
Helsinki University Library has acquired multidisciplinary e-book collections to support the digital learning environment. E-books are available in Helsinki university network and they will be catalogued in Helka by the end of the year.
Annual Collections were acquired for these subject areas:
Classical Studies, Economics & Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology and Religion. The years which are covered depends on the collection, usually years 2012-2016 are included. Annual Collections contain all new content available within a calendar year, including newly released Handbooks in addition to articles written for future Handbooks or for online-only publication.
The Foundation Collection was acquired of these subject areas: Classical Studies, Law, Linguistics, Music, Political Science and Religion. Foundation Collection includes everything available in print up until the first half of 2012.
94 new titles has been acquired from these collections:
Archaeology & Classics, Asian Studies, Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture, Business & Economics, Education, Foreign Languages, Philosophy,
Politics, History, Law, Linguistics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology, Religion and Sociology.
Are you interested in movies, history, foreign languages and arts?
Kanopy includes movies, films and documentaries in many subject areas, like:
Film & Popular, The Arts, Business, Education, Global Studies & Languages, Health, Media & Communication, Sciences, Social Sciences and Instructional Films and Lessons.
New Helka interface that has been tested at Helsinki University Library during the autumn semester, replaces the old Helka interface at the beginning of December.
Both the library collections data and the customer information you may have had in the old Helka database are now available in the new Helka.
Two Searches, Single Interface
New Helka offers two different searches. Through the Libraries’ Collections Search you can search all print and electronic collections in all Helka. The search includes journals and databases.
Through Article Search, you can search for international articles. Article Search can also find references to publications, which are not necessarily included in the collections of Helka libraries.
Access to Journals with University User ID
If you have a University of Helsinki user account, you can access and read the e-journals and the e-books acquired by university. These electronic resources can be accessed also via remote access. (Read more)
If you do not have the university user account, you can access e-journals and e-books in the Helka libraries.
Your Account in the New Helka
By logging into New Helka you can access Your Account information: View your loans and save your searches. Customers can renew loans, make reservations or pay the accrued fees online. In New Helka you can also save lists of your favorite referenrences or create scheduled alerts on any saved searches.
Login is possible either with the university user ID or with library card number to which the user has connected the self-chosen PIN code. If you have not yet linked your library card with a PIN code of your choice, you can do it in the old Helka.
Nelli Search Portal Deactivates
The national Search Portal Nelli will be shut down at the end of 2016, as the National Library of Finland will no longer maintain the service. Nelli service will be deactivated gradually and the service can experience downtime in December. You can find the journals and databases you’ve used to search in Nelli already in New Helka.
The library welcomes all customer feedback on the new Helka interface and the discoverability of library’s collections online. You are encouraged to use the Feedback Form online.
Further information on nthe new Helka and other access services related matters: IT Services Manager Pasi Keski-Nisula, tel. +358 2941 26656, pasi.keski-nisula@helsinki.fi