Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
Encyclopedia of Law and Religion treats the relation between law and religion in its various aspects, including those related to the role of religion in society, the relations between religion and state institutions, freedom of religion and legal aspects of religious traditions.
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IMD World Competitiveness Online is a comprehensive database on the competitiveness of nations. It includes a 20-year time series from the IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook. Functionalities include any combination of data for 61 countries and more than 300 criteria. Criterias are among others ageing of society, ecological footprint, educational system, healthy life expectancy, scientific articles, scientific research, long-term unemployment and immigration laws.
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Due to low usage, ComserveService (including ComAbstracts, Open Journals Index) has been unsubscribed.
The resource will not be available any more starting from November 1st.
There are still several communication studies databases available, eg.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Social & Behavioral Sciences (ProQuest)
More communication and media resources on the library website.
Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi
Would you like to know more about open science and data management? The University of Helsinki organizes an Open Access Workshop on Tuesday 20th October. The workshop gives an opportunity for young researchers to get to know more about data management and green open access. You’ll also have an opportunity to consult an international data service team.
The workshop is a part of an International Open Access week whose aim is to promote unrestricted access to academic publishing.
Open science belongs to everyone
The Open Science Workshop day begins with six presentations on open science. Speakers include specialists from CSC, and Lars Holm Nielsen, who is a software engineer at CERN and developer of Zenodo, an innovative research data management service. Ivo Grigorov from Denmark will speak on the effects of Horizon 2020 on Open Science.
After the presentations there will be several different workshops with topics such as how to make a data management plan, research data and open access, how to find the most suitable data repository and describing and sharing research data.
The Open Science Workshop will be held at the University of Helsinki learning environment Minerva Plaza at Siltavuorenpenger 5 A. The event starts at 10 am and is in English.
The workshop is fully booked at the moment, but you can ask about cancellations by e-mail openaccess-info@helsinki.fi
Program and additional information
Presentation materials can be found here after the workshop:
www.fosteropenscience.eu/event/open-science-workshop-%E2%80%93-open-access-week-2015-event
Supported by: EU FOSTER project
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Bloomsbury Collections provide thousands of e-books in the fields of humanities, education, social sciences, law, religious studies and theology. Both quite recent research monographs and classics are included.
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Now those of our customers who took advantage of the trial for Ancient Commentators on Aristotele have now a chance to return to this book series again.
Feedback as comment or by e-mail e-library[at]helsinki.fi
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Autumn is the time of University Rankings. In August we got Shanghai, in September QS World University and now Times Higher Education (THE). The latter offered the University of Helsinki a considerable rise from place 103 to 76.
Let´s see more detailed which role the bibliometric methods play in these results. In the Shanghai ranking they comprise 40% of the total result, in the QS ranking only 20%. In the THE ranking references bring 30% of the result and publication volume 6%.
Sometimes databases can play a central role. Instead of Web of Science, THE is now for the first time using Scopus. This crossover has also raised the rankings of other European and Finnish universities in contrast to American Universities whose ratings now sank. However, also QS uses Scopus but in its ratings the ranking of the University of Helsinki has sunk. Explanation to this is the significant change which has taken place in the means of measuring. Five of the largest disciplines are now equally emphasized. In this method medicine and natural sciences usually lose impact in publication ratings.
Library and Metrics Tools
Shanghai ranking uses the Web of Science in its quantitative method likewise Taiwan (TNU) ranking, which results we expect in October. TNU rankings are solely based on the bibliometric indicators.
Both Web of Science and Scopus are accessible in the University of Helsinki network, likewise the Analyzing tools of these databases: InCites and SciVal. The Helsinki University Library´s Metrics team actively uses these tools as part of their analysis.
Text: Eva Isaksson
Translation and editing: Ursula Virolainen
After a successful trial in April, the library will again be open on Sundays in October and November.
From October 4th until November 29th the library will be open from 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays, with the exception of the Halloween weekend (Saturday October 31st and Sunday November 1st), during which the building will be closed. Entrance on Sundays from Fabianinkatu and by lift from Kaisaniemikatu (1st floor) or from Helsinki University metrostation (floor K1).
Learning environment at your service 
On Sundays, Kaisa House will work as self-service library. The collections and facilities are available to customers on floors 2-7. The service area on the 3rd floor and the underground floors (K4, K3, K2) will be closed. Phone service will be available and we are happy to help you with reservations pick-ups and any problems using the self-service facilities.
If you need a guest login for the University network or copy cards (e.g. for printing), you need to get these earlier in the week.
On Saturdays, Kaisa House is open from 11 am to 5 pm. The opening hours were moved one hour forwards based on customer feedback. Especially on weekends, most customers arrive only after midday, and the weekend mornings have been very quiet.
The Learning Centre Aleksandria accessible with magnetic key all Sunday
Learning Centre Aleksandria (Fabianinkatu 26) is open weekdays from 8 am to 7:45 pm, on Saturdays from 11 am to 4:45 pm and closed on Sundays. Students at the University of Helsinki are able to access the Learning Centre outside these opening hours from 7 am until 1 am with a magnetic key obtainable from the IT User Accounts service point in the library. More information about using Aleksandria outside normal opening hours in Flamma intranet.
Main Library (Kaisa House)
– service phone 02941 23920
– email: library-citycentre (at) helsinki.fi
Helsinki University Library opening hours
Learning Centre Aleksandria
Information seeking for essay writers: A two hour in depth-workshop in the computer class for writers of longer essays will be offered on Wednesday 30th of September at 10-12 AM in computer class 6060 at the Main Library, Kaisa House (Fabianinkatu 30).
Enroll via WebOodi search code 99914 (HU students) or by email: kristina.weimer(at)helsinki.fi.
The Helsinki University staff and students and Open University staff and students may participate in open courses free of charge. Otherwise, see the price list.
KRpia is a full-text collection of Korean research articles, historical resources, reference works, etc.
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