Category: eResources

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Still time: Ebrary Academic Complete is on trial for Helsinki University staff and students

Take a look and test: Ebrary Academic Complete on trial until the 31st of October!

Ebrary Academic Complete contains over 80 000 full-text books in multiple academic and general interest subject areas from leading academic publishers (eg. Oxford University Press, Routledge, Cambridge University Press,Princeton University Press, MIT Press, Harvard University Press, Elsevier Ltd.; Brill Academic Publishers; Taylor & Francis Ltd; Sage Publications, Ltd. and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. etc.)

Trial from 13th of September until 31st of October, 2013

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

 

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New trial: World Scientific Publishing ~ 30.11.2013

World Scientific Publishing is a leading independent publisher that collaborates with  organizations such as The Nobel Foundation, US National Academies Press and its subsidiary Imperial College Press amongst others.

Next to all e-books users will see the Open lock symbol that means that users are allowed to access, use, download and print content without restrictions.

Please kindly note that the only exceptions are textbooks that are not available in e-format.

Trial period: 30.9.2013-30.11.2013

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik Online (~22.10)

The Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik [Historical Dictionary of Rhetoric] is the  comprehensive academic reference work in the field.

•1,300 articles electronically searchable

•User can search by various criteria: lemma, keyword, person, literature, or article author

•Articles are thematically linked with each other.

•Digital object identifiers (DOI) for each article ensure citability.

•Multilingual lemma search (in 2014)

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

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New feature in Dawsonera eBook platform

Now it is possible to download Dawsonera ebooks directly to Apple and Android devices.

Helsinki University Library currently owns over 1200 eBook titles on Dawsonera, and there are also 270,000+ titles which can be previewed for up to five minutes. Owned titles with full access are marked with  green padlock unlocked,  titles only available for 5 minutes preview are marked with purple padlock locked

By default Dawsonera shows the entire catalogue –  to view  titles only available for Helsinki University, choose the “eBook Catalogue” tab. Our library’s Dawsonera eBooks you can also find in Helka.
Choose the icon to the left to Download (= borrow), and the icon to the right to ReadOnline (= read on screen):

  dawsonera

Choose the length of the download (1-3 days) from the drop down menu and click download.  For detailed instructions please see user guides for Apple and Android devices.

More user guides you can find in  Dawsonera Help.

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Trial: State Papers Online (1509-1782) (–>3.10.2013)

State Papers Online offers original historical materials of Early Modern Britain across the widest range of government.

State Papers Online, 1509-1714
Part I: The Tudors, Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603, State Papers Domestic
Part II: The Tudors, Henry VIII to Elizabeth I, 1509-1603, State Papers Foreign, Ireland, Scotland, Borders and Acts of Privy Council
Part III: The Stuarts: James I to Anne, 1603-1714, State Papers Domestic
Part IV: The Stuarts: James to Anne, 1603 – 1714: State Papers Foreign, Ireland; and Registers of the Privy Council

State Papers Online, 1714-1782  (The reigns of the Hannover rulers)

The free trial is restricted to Helsinki University students, faculty, staff and the local users in the National Library and Helsinki University Library.
For remote connections, see: Remote connections»
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu[at]helsinki.fi

 

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Trial: Historical Newspapers from around the United States (–>30.9.)

Newspapers.com is the online home of 48+ million pages of historical newspapers from 1700 newspapers from around the United States and beyond.

Trial period: 26.08.-30.09.2013

When you use Newspapers.com at University of Helsinki you have access all the papers on the site. You can register for free to clip articles or other interesting things you find.

Further information–>

Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu@helsinki.fi

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Stories highlighting remarkable inventions and advancements in science

How the first papers about DNA were received at the time in the 1950s? What kind of a shock was the discovery of the ozone hole in the mid-1980s?

The Nature Nature PastCast is a podcast series telling the stories behind some of the biggest papers in Nature’s archive. Each month for a year, the PastCast will explore Nature‘s back catalogue, setting in context key moments in the history of science – and rooting out some of the quirkier reports from the journal.

On the same site as the links to the  audio shows are the links to the contents of archives of Nature and Scientific American.