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Church Missionary Society Periodicals – trial until 14th July 2015

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Church Missionary Society Periodicals, 1804-2009 (Module I)*

The documents include reports on missionary work, serialised journals and letters, birth, marriage, and death announcements, fiscal reports and reflections on worship, making them an extremely rich source.

You can browse by issue, topic, person or country thanks to the detailed metadata attached to each document.

You can discover photographs and artwork through the bespoke, searchable visual galleries or use the interactive chronology and map features to supplement your research.

*Please note that PDF download options are not available during trials.

Remote access through VPN connection: https://www.vpn.helsinki.fi

Trial period: 17.6. –14.7.2015

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New Resource: Classic Arabic Texts Online!

واعراضها ؞ واخبرنى عدَّة من اهل العلم 1 انَّ رِفَاعة بن زيد الجُذَامى كان اهدى لرسول الله صلعم غلامًا يقال له مِدْعَم فلمَّا كانت غزاة وادى القرى اصابه سهمُ غَربٍ 2 وهو يَحُطُّ رحل رسول الله صلعم فقيل يرسول الله هنيئًا لغلامك اصابه سهم فاستُشهد فقال كلَّا انَّ الشملة الَّتى اخذها من المغانم يوم خيبر لتشتعلُ عليه نارًا ؞ حدَّثنا شَيْبان بن فَرُّوخ قال حدَّثنا ابو الاشهب عن الحسن انَّه قيل لرسول الله صلعم استُشهد فتاك فلان فقال انَّه يُجَرُّ الى النار في

Classic Arabic Texts Online Part 1 (CATO-1) offers access to approximately 19,000 pages of Brill editions of classic Arabic texts.  All titles are full-text searchable in Arabic and accessible from a single point of entry. CATO-1 includes the following titles:

  • Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān (Arabic text, 87 chapters)
  • Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān: The Origins of the Islamic State (English text, 109 chapters)
  • Mukhtaṣar Kitāb al-Buldān: Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum (59 chapters, with indices and glossaries)
  • Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa l-mulūk: The Annals of the Prophets and Kings (available as a beta version)
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New Resource: Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism

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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that is both an ancient historical tradition and a flourishing tradition today.

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On trial GeoScienceWorld until 30.6

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GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences, which is built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef abstract and index service. The organization gives global researchers a single point of access to 45 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

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Summer Reading Guaranteed!

If you belong to the staff or students of the University of Helsinki You will have summer reading enough. There are hundreds of quite new e-books acquired by the Library to choose from. The books are from respected publishers and they are almost in all fields of learning.

The new e-books most interesting to the staff and students of the City Centre Campus can be found among the e-books acquired from Palgrave, Taylor&Francis and Springer.

The staff and students  of Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki  Campus may find relevant reading especially among the books acquired from Springer. CRC. and Mc Graw Hill (AccessMedicine)

Springer Computer Science 2015 provides over 400 brand new eBooks in varying subdisciplines of computer science. Among them there are titles which may interest also other scholars, not only computer scientists.

Do not forget our e-book service Book Navigator which provides hundreds of thousands of both newer and older e-books.

The eBooks acquired by the Helsinki University Library are accessible to you if you have a valid user account for the University information systems. Among our eBooks there are numerous such ones which you can download on your mobile device to read them off-line if you are travelling in palaces without internet access. If you have problems with dowloading, remember our E-book Guide!

Have a nice summer and rewarding reading experiences!

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On trial Digitalia Hispánica until 30.6.

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Digitalia Hispánica is the most complete database of e-books and e-journals on Spanish Language. It is included more than 13,000 electronic documents from different subject areas like Art, History, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology and Religion, Science and Medicine.

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