Category: eResources

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Our eBook Collections are Increasing – EBSCO’s Academic Collection Acquired

EBSCO’s Academic Collection which was on trial during the first months of this autumn has been now acquired.

There are more than 130 000 e-books. They are from varying publishers and subject fields. You can not yet find them through HELKA or BookNavigator but you can browse them in EBSCO’s interface.

You can read the books online or download them on your mobile device to read them off-line.  Guidance and hints for downloading can be found in our E-books Guide or in  EBSCO’s Dowloading eBooks Tutorial.

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Are you interested in theatre? Digital Theatre Plus on trial until 28.11.

Digital Theatre Plus contains recent British theatre productions captured authentically onscreen in high definition.
Plays of the following theatres are included: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Royal Opera House, Broadway Digital Archive and National Jewish Theatre. You will find plays, excerpts of the plays, interviews of actors and actresses, musicals, opera and ballets in this database.

Feedback e -library@helsinki

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On trial Global Jewish Database Online, Responsa Project until 29.11.

University of Helsinki has access to Global Jewish Database, Responsa Project during November.

The Online Responsa Project encompasses the best of the Jewish sources representing a period of over three thousand years of heritage and tradition. All texts are fully and professionally typed in, proofread and hyper-linked.
The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrash, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries), a large Responsa collection of questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew), the Talmudic Encyclopedia etc.
The overall volume of the online project, which is frequently updated, is now reaching to 200 million words. The ‘Shut’ includes 100,000 Halachic laws over a period of thousand years, from all over the world. Extensive biographical data on the authors of Responsa texts have been added as well.

Feedback: e -library@helsinki.fi

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Nineteenth Century Historical Documents – Trial for NCCO (til November 20)

 

TRIAL OVER.  Acquired collections:

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NCCO – Ninteenth Century Collections Online is a result of a multi-year global digitization and publishing program focusing on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century, with archives releasing incrementally beginning in spring 2012.

The content is sourced from the world’s preeminent libraries and archives. It consists of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, photographs, statistics, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.

  • British Politics and Society
  • Asia: and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange
  • British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture
  • Children’s Literature and Childhood
  • Europe and Africa: Commerce, Christianity, Civilization, and Conquest
  • European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection
  • Photography: The World through the Lens
  • Religion, Society, Spirituality, and Reform
  • Science, Technology, and Medicine: 1780-1925
  • Women: Transnational Networks

Feedback as comment or by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

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New MOT Dictionaries!

MOT Collection collection  is widening. New acquisitions:

  • MOT Finnish Synonyms
  • MOT Ruslania Comprehensive Dictionary (Russian-Finnish-Russian)
  • MOT Ruslania Dictionary of Commerce and Trade (Russian-Finnish-Russian)
  • MOT Ruslania Technical Dictionary (Russian-Finnish-Russian)

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On trial STATISTA until 30.11.

Statista is extremely large statistics portal. Providing you with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources, the focus is firmly based on professional, clear, quick and consistent results. Customers have access to quantitative data from more than 600 industries like agriculture, chemicals and resources, health and pharmaceuticals, technology and telecommunications, consumer goods and media and advertising. Included in all account types: unlimited download, source citation and direct use in PowerPoint and Excel.

Feedback e-library@helsinki.fi