On Trial: Gender Identity and Social Change until 12.11

Gender : Identity and Social Change is an essential primary source documenting the changing representations and lived experiences of gender roles and relations from the nineteenth century to the present. This  collection offers sources for the study of women’s suffrage, the feminist movement, the men’s movement, employment, education, the body, the family, and government and politics.

Feedback you can write to e-library@helsinki.fi

On Trial: Geofacets until 6.11

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Geofacets is available in the University of Helsinki until 6.11.

Geofacets contains 1.75 million easily discoverable and downloadable maps, figures, and tables from nearly 100 esteemed scientific publications.

You can use Geofacets to:

  • Characterize a geologic basin
  • Fill in knowledge gaps about a region or geologic subject area
  • Provide scientific backup for original analyses
  • Integrate published data with proprietary models in a GIS platform

For more information about Geofacets, visit their Learn & Support page.

If you would like to request additional training please fill out the contact form on our website and a team member will contact you shortly.

Feedback you can send to e-library@helsinki.fi

On Trial ProQuest Central platform until 5.11

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ProQuest Central is  large single periodical resource available, bringing together complete databases across major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and Humanities.

You can find in ProQuest Central:

Health & Medical Collection

Psychology Database

Military Database

Arts & Humanities Database

Computing Database

Criminal Justice Database

Asian & European Business Collection

Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection

 

More information available here.

You can write feedback to e-library@helsinki.fi

 

New Asian studies resources on trial in AsiaPortal

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You can examine new Asian studies resources during the autumn 2018.

South Asia Archive is interdisciplinary and provides cultural and historical material from across the Indian sub-continent, covering the period mid-18th to mid-20th century. On trial until December 31st.

ChinaMaxx is a collection of e-books connected to the same platform as the search engine Duxiu. Here you can find 700 000  Chinese titles focusing on social sciences and humanities. On trial until October 31st.

E-books from ISEAS – Yosuf Ishak Institute. ISEAS Publishing is the largest publisher of academic books that focuses on Southeast Asian politics, economics and social issues. This collection of ISEAS e-books covers a selection of 594 titles from 1980 – 2017. On trial until October 31st.

Send feedback by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

 

On trial until 25.10.2018: Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century

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Gale’s Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century: Far-Right and Left Political Groups in the US, Europe and Australia is available in the University of Helsinki network until the 25th of October 2018.

Covering a wide range of fringe political movements, these rare and unique archival collections include e.g. campaign materials, propaganda, government records and various ephemera that allow researchers to explore extremism and radicalism in new and innovative ways.

You can send feedback by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

 

 

On trial until 18.9.2018: Dead Sea Scrolls online

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Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library  is available in the University of Helsinki network until the 18th September 2018.

For the first time in history the texts and images of all the Dead Sea Scrolls – both Biblical texts and Non-Biblical texts – are available in their totality on the Internet.

The databases are based on the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library CD-ROM, published by Brill and Brigham Young University. Both databases present a complete Hebrew transcription and English translation of texts, together with high-resolution images. 

You can send feedback by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

Trial: The Colonial State Papers – British trade, history and overseas expansion

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The Colonial State Papers database is 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 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 in Helsinki university network: 2.7.-1.8.2018

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

 

On Trial: Complete Counseling and Therapy Package until 4.6

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The Complete Counseling and Therapy Package available in the University of Helsinki until 4.6.

The Complete Counseling and Therapy Package features applied training materials that help counseling students, faculty, and practitioners put theory into practice. The resources included in the channel offer more than 2,000 hours of training videos, conference sessions, and footage of actual therapy session and 100,000 pages of transcripts, client narratives, and reference works.

You have access to the following individual collections:

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume I
Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts: Volume II 
Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volumes I-V 
Social Work Online 
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy
Nursing and Mental Health in Video: A Symptom Media Collection

Feedback you can send to e-library@helsinki.fi

Browse journals – trial use BrowZine

Try BrowZine to find, follow and read your favorite scholarly journals offered by HULib – while discovering new titles along the way.

BrowZine is available from your web browser and as a mobile app for your iOS and Android devices.

BrowZine is on trial until 11.6. and we’d appreciate your feedback on this service. Please, notice that during the trial period the journal collection available in BrowZine is a test collection, search results  may vary.

My Bookshelf is one of our most popular features. With My Bookshelf, you are notified anytime a new article is added to your favorite journals, keeping you up to date with the latest research.

You can send feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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On Trial: American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam until 25.5.

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Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives Collection- American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam, Global Perspectives 1946-1975 is available in the University of Helsinki until 25.5.

American Proxy Wars: Korea and Vietnam includes translated and English-language radio ant television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals, government documents, and books covering the Korean and Vietnamese conflicts.

Feedback you can send e-library@helsinki.fi