Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
On Wednesday May 9th libraries are open as follows:
– Main Library 8-18, customer service 10-18.
– Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries 8-16, customer service 10-16.
Learning Centres Aleksandria and Minerva are open 8-17:45.
On Thursday May 10th (Ascension Day) libraries and learning centres are closed.
Aleksandria can be accessed with the magnetic key.
Opening hours on Monday April 30th:
– Main Library, Kaisa House 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. (customer service 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.)
– Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki Campus Libraries 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. (customer service 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.)
On Tuesday, May 1st, all library locations and learning centres are closed.
There is no night use in the Learning Centre Aleksandria between 5:45 p.m. on Monday, April 30th and 4 p.m. on Tuesday, May 1st.
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
The collection Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives Collection – Propaganda and the Chinese Press, Global Perspectives 1946-1996, is now available in the University of Helsinki until 25.5.
Database includes articles published by major communist Chinese newspapers from 1946-1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA.
Feedback you can write e-library@helsinki.fi
Please evaluate the importance of different library services and how well the library has succeeded in offering these services.
Helsinki University Library’s Customer Survey is available from the 23rd until the 29th of April, 2018.
By responding to the survey, you can influence the future of Helsinki University Library’s services. You can also add comments and suggestions.
We give away 25 small prizes (thermo mugs and movie ticket packages) to the respondents of the survey.
Link to the English Survey: bit.ly/HULibCustomerSurvey
Basilica Online is a fully-searchable online edition of the 17 volumes of the Basilica text and its scholia, as edited between 1945 and 1988 by H.J. Scheltema, D. Holwerda, and N. van der Wal. The Basilica is the single-most important source for Byzantine law throughout the period of the Byzantine empire, and is a major source for Byzantine studies more broadly.
Editor: Prof. Dr. Bernard Stolte
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu[at]helsinki.fi
Also available in Helka.
The Ogonek Digital Archive’s 230,000 articles and 440,000 photographs will serve as a virtual timeline tracing the Soviet era into the Great War, the Cold War, perestroika/glasnost, and today.
Amid strife, Ogonek strived for intellectual ideals through lively commentary, criticism, and satire, becoming a forum for Russian cultural thought and political discourse.
The trial is available to Helsinki University students, faculty, staff and the local users in the National Library and Helsinki University Library.
Licenses and conditions of use of electronic materials
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu[at]helsinki.fi
Access to the resource via the National Library of Finland Search Service
How open science affects the visibility and accessibility of your study? What should you as a member of the University of Helsinki community know about open access publishing and services offered by the library? Which are the discounts of author processing charges (APC’s) you are entitled to? Come, ask and discuss open science themes with the experts of the library.
We will also give you some new tips on self-archiving and advice how to promote Open Access now more easily than before. Self-archiving creates openness!
Kiosks’ business hours and places:
Biomedicum lobby, Meilahti
16.4. 11 am – 13 pm
Main building lobby, City Centre
17.4. 11 am – 13 pm
Physicum lobby, Kumpula
17.4. 11 am – 13 pm
Building EE lobby, Viikki
18.4. 11 am – 13 pm
We welcome both the new and old customers!
More information: http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/oa/eng
All Oxford Scholarship Online e-books are available to the students and staff of the University until 31st March 2019.
There are more than 14 000 e-books on various subjects, the focus being, however, on the disciplines of the city centre campus. New titles will be added monthly.
The most popular books will be acquired permanently to the library’s collection in the spring 2019. Further information on the acquisition model ->
The title list by subject fields ->
The books are catalogued in HELKA.
The link to Oxford Scholarship Online –>
You can send feedback by e-mail: e-library@helsinki.fi
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Some library users have received scam e-mails (phishing) purporting to be from the Helsinki University Library. The emails state that the library account is about to expire and ask users to renew their account by following a link in the email. Please note that a similar, genuine email from the library does not contain a hyperlink, the address of the Helka-database is present only as text. Please see below for differences between the fake message and the genuine message.
If you have clicked on the link and given your library card login information you will be issued a new card. Please contact the library customer service.
If you have clicked on the link and provided your University user name and password, please contact the Helsinki University Helpdesk: (tel. 55555, helpdesk@helsinki.fi). Helpdesk guide: How to recognize phishing
Dear Student,
Our records show that your access to Helsinki University Library System is about to expire. Due to security precautions established to protect Helsinki Libraries System, you have to renew your library account on a regular base, so please use the following link login.helsinki.fi/libraries/access/reactivation.htm
After your successful authentication, your access will be restored automatically and you will be redirected to the library homepage. If you are unable to log in, please contact the library help desk for immediate assistance. We apologize for any inconveniences this may have caused.
Thank you,
Helsinki University Library
P.O Box 53, 00014 University of Helsinki
Telephone: +358 29 4123196
Dear Lisa! Your account, which contains your favourite lists and saved searches, is about to expire at xx.xx.2018. You can easily prevent the expiration by logging in with you library card to helka.finna.fi before the expiration date. If you don’t use this account or use a different login method, you can ignore this message.
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