Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
Mobilizing East Asia Online offers a ca
refully selected and tightly organized range of essential English-language newspapers, magazines and pamphlets following the descent into war in East and South-East Asia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1950s.
The Collection offers access to unique primary source material which can be used to pursue research topics in modern history, Asian studies, politics and war studies.
The most comprehensive range of regional and local newspapers in Britain between the mid eighteenth and mid twentieth centuries ever made available in a digital collection, the collections within the British Library Newspapers series provide a range of publications to reflect the social, political and cultural events of the times.
The series is composed of five collections:
More information: http://gale.cengage.co.uk/british-library-newspapers.aspx
ArXiv celebrates its´ 25th birthday 14th August. Open access archive arXiv serves the researchers of physics, astronomy, computer science and mathematics as they can free of charge submit scientific papers for the discussion. The anniversary truly gives cause for celebration, as an open archive by the end of last year has collected 139 million works whereas papers have been opened more than a million times.
ArXiv´s user survey published in June collected 36 000 responses. A clear majority of respondents to the survey would like to keep an archive mainly the way it is, although some features, such as development of the search functionality, were seen crucial. Also development of research data archiving was pointed out as an important development line.
The vast majority of the users say arXiv should stick to what it is good at: That is to share researchers´ papers openly and rapidly. However, the pressure of a technical modernization of the archive and the expansion of the financial base is high. Currently mainly libraries and a charitable foundation finance arXiv. Also Helsinki University Library participates in arXiv´s operation and maintenance. Advisory boards of arXiv meet in September to make guidelines on the future of the archive.
Read more:
Van Noorden, Richard (2016): ArXiv preprint server plans multimillion-dollar overhaul. Nature Vol 534, Issue 7609. doi:10.1038/534602a
Rieger, Oya Y. (2016) arXiv User Survey Report : arXiv@25: Key Findings of the User Survey.
A better SAGE Research Methods experience is here. The new platform has an improved search capability and overall usability. It will work equally well on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Access to the current platform will end 28th July 2016.
Benefits of the new platform include:
Personal Profiles, Method Lists and Saved Searches:
Starting July 1st, reservations for the 10 group work rooms in Kaisa House will be made using the Office 365 calendar. It is no longer possible to make reservations in the former system, Timmi, after June 2016.
The group facilities can only be reserved by the students and staff of the University of Helsinki. To make a reservation you need a Helsinki University Office365 account and calendar. You can find the Kaisa House group work rooms in the calendar under “Kaisa-talo Group Study Room”.
Further information and instructions for group work rooms on the library’s website.
Starting in summer 2016, all Helsinki University Library group work rooms will be reserved with the Office 365 calendar. In addition to the Kaisa House group work rooms you can also find group work rooms from the following places in the calendar: Viikki Campus Library, Learning Centre Aleksandria, and Learning Centre Minerva. Starting in August you will also be able to reserve the group work rooms of the Kumpula and Meilahti Campus Libraries using the calendar.
Further information and instructions for the Office365 calendar available on the Helpdesk website.
Change in reservation practices for group work rooms in the library
In Russian and Eastern European studies -guide you will find the most relevant sources of information, core databases, journals, articles and news feeds in the area of Russian and Eastern European studies.
The guide provides you also with a collection of databases and portals, tips on using them, news from the special libraries and links to theses, archives and statistical sources etc. The guide is open access although some of the content is only available in the University of Helsinki network.
Picture: Wikipedia.org CC BY-SA 4.0
Russian and Eastern European Studies –Guide has been compiled as teamwork between the Helsinki University Library, the Slavonic Library of the National Library of Finland and the library of the Aleksanteri Institute.
We welcome your feedback and suggestions for improvement!
ResearchGuides – Library’s information sources from various research fields, expert librarians and help guides
Helsinki University Library and the learning centres are closed on Midsummer June 24th-26th. Kaisa House and the learning centres are open again after the Midsummer. See opening hours here.
Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki campus libraries will be closed until the end of July. During this time you can be in contact with Kaisa House customer service.
We wish all our customers a beautiful Midsummer!
Kaisa House’s and Learning Centre Aleksandria’s summer opening hours begin on Saturday, June 18th. Both houses will be closed on Saturday.
Main Library Kaisa House
Sat 18.6. – Sun 21.8.
Learning Centre Aleksandria
Sat 18.6.- Sun 21.8.
Learning Centre Minerva
Mon 6.6.- Sun 26.8.
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