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On trial: POLITICO Pro Europe until 23.10

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POLITICO Pro Europe is the international newsroom focusing on European policy and politics, with over 55 full-time journalists delivering critical intelligence around specific European policy issues.

Pro is offering a 1-month complimentary trial for the University of Helsinki.

The Pro services provide in-depth policy news and key insights at the intersection of European policy & politics.

Equipped with teams of expert policy reporters for each policy area, Pro offers coverage in a total of 7 policy areas: Technology, Health Care, Energy, Financial Services, Agriculture & Food, Trade & Transport.

Each user can access the following:

•PRO WEBSITE: ACCESS TO ARCHIVES OF IN-DEPTH POLICY NEWS & INSIGHT INCLUDING:

• DAILY MORNING POLICY NEWSLETTERS: THE KEY INSIGHTS YOU NEED TO START EACH DAY (1 per policy area)

• PRO ALERTS: BRIEF ALERTS ON THE POLICY INTELLIGENCE THAT MATTERS MOST

• PRO ARTICLES: LONGER STORIES WITH IN-DEPTH
INSIGHT AND DEEP-DIVE ANALYSIS

• BRUSSELS INFLUENCE: A WEEKLY INTELLIGENCE
AND ANALYSIS NEWSLETTER ON LOBBYING,
TRANSPARENCY AND GOVERNANCE

If you have any questions regarding the Pro trial or would like to request a 15-minute demonstration of how to most effectively utilize the trial, please contact Kritasha Gupta (kgupta@politico.eu)

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Test New Helka – print and electronic collections in same search

The Library database Helka has a new interface. Beta release is open for library users to test on helka.finna.fi

So What’s New?

You can find the Helsinki University Library collections on the New Helka. Also international electronic journals and articles can be searched through the same interface.

Finna_test_facebookThe new Article Search can find most of the international electronic collections that have previously been searched through the Nelli Portal. The new Article Search will replace the Nelli Portal, which will be terminated by the end of 2016.

Also collections of other Helka libraries can be searched on the New Helka.

The easy-to-use interface provides you with search suggestions and search results can be organized in many different ways.

Self-Service Features for User

When you have a Helka library card, for which you have selected a PIN code*, you can:

  • View and update your personal information
  • Renew your loans
  • Reserve books and publications
  • Pay your user fees online

You can also log into the New Helka with the University of Helsinki user account. Once you’ve connected your Helka library card number with your user account, you can access all university’s digital collections by a single sign-in.

You can also build and maintain lists of favorites in the New Helka.

*Choose your PIN in the old Helka database.

Give feedback

Any feedback you may have regarding the new Helka interface is warmly welcome. Please give your feedback online helka.finna.fi/Feedback

The New Helka is a beta release that is open for test use. The old Helka interface will be replaced with this new product later in 2016.

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Trial: Rav Milim Hebrew Dictionary ~ until 30.9.

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Rav Milim contains the entire modern Hebrew vocabulary, in all its layers and styles (historical, technical, colloquial, slang, etc.) with clear explanations, sources and usage examples

  • Full Hebrew thesaurus: A large compilation of synonyms: poetic, literary, slang
  • Dictionary of idioms and phrases, including their explanations
  • Rhyming Words: A list of all words which rhyme with the requested word
  • Grammar: Accurate grammatical analysis of each word in the dictionary – part of speech, gender, tenses, conjugations, root, proper vowel signs and spelling for every word in every conjugation
  • Hebrew-English-Hebrew Dictionary

The dictionary updates regularly, new words coined by the Academy of the Hebrew Language, alongside foreign terms and even new slang are added.

More information

NB! Remote access through VPN connection: for more information on VPN connections visit the Helpdesk web page on remote access.

Trial period: 31.8.- 30.9.2016

feedback. e-library@helsinki.fi

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Updated Historical Statistics of the United States on trial until 30 Sept

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Historical Statistics of the United States has long been the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Topics ranging from migration and health to crime and the Confederate States of America are each placed in historical context by a recognized expert in the field.

The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition will permit users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest. The data are readily available for charting, or statistical analysis.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Send us your feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: The Colonial State Papers – a fascinating glimpse into British trade, history and overseas expansion

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The Colonial State Papers are a collection of thousands of scanned documents and bibliographic records relating to English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

These documents give fascinating insight into British trade, history and overseas expansion: the earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in slaves and English conflicts with the Spanish and French are all covered in this database.

More information

Trial period: 17.8.-16.10.2016

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

Documents: Selection of papers from collection ‘CO 1’ from The National Archives, available in Colonial State Papers.

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CRC Handbook of Chemistry & Physics – enhanced web version is now available

chemNew to this enhanced web version of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics are:

New Tables

  •     Surface Active Chemicals
  •     Nanomaterial Safety Guidelines

New Features

  • Graph search results and data tables with a wide choice of formats
  • Access the handbook from any device – mobile device, tablets, laptops and desktops
  • Bookmark individual pages
  • Create individual workspace allowing users to save searches and customize the chemical search screen
  • Gain access to archived PDF versions of earlier editions (back to the 84th edition)
  • Search 27 property fields such as autoignition temperature, density, molecular weight, surface tension, vapor pressure and much more

Improved Features:

  • Print search results and export to HTML, CSV and XLS formats
  • Export chemical structures and images
  • Display chemical structures in a variety of formats
  • Browsable indexes help to verify spelling and physical properties

New Interactive feature:

New View Chemical Entry – allow users to see all core chemical properties about a chemical, and links to all tables in the handbook containing that chemical

 

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Mobilizing East Asia Online on trial until Sept 13

Mobilizing East Asia Online offers a carefully selected and tightly organized range of essential English-language newspapers, magazines and pamphlets following the descent into war in East and South-East Asia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s.

The Collection offers access to unique primary source material which can be used to pursue research topics in modern history, Asian studies, politics and war studies.

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British Library Newspapers on trial until Aug 31

The most comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries ever made available in a digital collection, the collections within the British Library Newspapers series provide a range of publications to reflect the social, political and cultural events of the times.

The series is composed of five collections:

  • British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900
  • British Library Newspapers, Part II: 1800-1900
  • British Library Newspapers, Part III: 1741-1950
  • British Library Newspapers, Part IV: 1732-1950
  • British Library Newspapers, Part V: 1746-1950

More information: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/british-library-newspapers.aspx

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SAGE Research Methods – new platform

A better SAGE Research Methods experience is here. The new platform has an improved search capability and overall usability. It will work equally well on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Access to the current platform will end 28th July 2016.

Benefits of the new platform include:

  • A unified platform for text and video content, providing users with a multimedia research experience
  • Improved discoverability of content, both from within the platform and from external sources
  • The Methods Map has been improved, allowing users to explore method concepts with greater ease.
  • The browse options have been enhanced to align with user needs – allowing browse by discipline, content type, and method topic.

Personal Profiles, Method Lists and Saved Searches:

  • Staff and students personal profiles will be migrated across to the new site. When you first visit the new site, click ‘Profile’ in the top right hand corner of the page, and click ‘Reset your password’. Follow the instructions to reset your password. Once this is done you will be able to login.
  • All My Method lists will be migrated across to the new site. They will now be called Reading Lists, but will contain all the content they contained on the current site.
  • Saved Searches will not be available on the new site. The new site performs searches in a different manner to the current site. This means that saved searches cannot be migrated.

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