Trial: Medici.tv until 21.4.2017

Are you interested in classical music, operas or ballets?  Don Giovanni or Swan Lake?

Medici.tv, classical music channel, is available for University of Helsinki until 21.4.
Medici.tv’s library features over 1,800 programs (3,000 original works), including:
– concerts and archived historical concerts
– operas
– ballets
– documentaries, artist portraits and educational programs
– master classes

Feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi

 

What is molecular cloning? How does the centrifuge function?

Are you already familiar with the scientific videos of the JoVE Journal?

JoVE Journal of Visualized Experiments offers scientific peer review video articles about the following subject areas in the University of Helsinki: Biology, Immunology and Infection, Medicine and Neuroscience. On trial are Chemistry and Biochemistry till13.3.

Some of the videos have open access. And some of them are made by the researchers of the University of Helsinki.

What is molecular cloning?  You will find the answer in JoVE Science Education. Access is available in Basic Biology, Clinical Skills and Chemistry.

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

Kaisa House is open on Sundays in March and April, 2017

From March 5th until April 23rd the Main Library will be open from 11 am to 5 pm on Sundays, with the exception of Easter holidays (from Friday April 14th to Monday April 17th), during which period the building will be closed.

Entrance on Sundays is from Fabianinkatu or by lift from Kaisaniemenkatu (1st floor) or by lift from Helsinki University metro station (floor K1).

Finland’s most popular learning environment works as self-service library

On Sundays Kaisa House will function as a self-service library. The collections and facilities are available to customers on all floors. The customer service on the 3rd floor is closed.

You can pick up your reservations as self-service from the open shelves at the service desk. Should you have problems with using the library or the self-service facilities, phone service will be available.

In case you need a guest login to the University network or copy cards (e.g. for printing), you have to get these earlier in the week.

The Learning Centre Aleksandria is accessible with magnetic key all Sunday

Learning Centre Aleksandria (Fabianinkatu 26) is open on 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. 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

Do you need help with information seeking?

tyopaja_eng Welcome to our information seeking workshop!

Come and ask about library services, the usage of information services and information seeking. You can ask, for example, how to use the electronic resources at the University, what subject services and databases are available, or what is reference management software.

The workshop is in English and Finnish. You can drop in whenever you like between 3 pm – 5 pm. If you have a laptop, you can bring it along. No preregistration is needed.

Time: Every Monday 3 pm – 5 pm during the term (16.1.-5.6.2017)
Place: Helsinki University Library, Kaisa House, 5th floor, computer class 5057
Note! On 23.1. and 13.3. Kaisa House, 2nd floor, room 2024 (no computers).

Tuhat-clinics start Jan 10th @ Kaisa House

During January library offers support for annual research reporting.

At the library “Tuhat-clinics”

  • Kaisa House January 10th 10-12 or 25th 14-16 pc-room 5057
  • Kumpula Campus library January 11th 12-14 library classroom G108b
  • Meilahti January 17th 9-11 Terkko pc-classroom
  • Viikki January 19th 10-12 pc-classroom 170

Other ways to get support

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More information: http://libraryguides.helsinki.fi/tuhat/

 

Recent acquisitions: Wiley reference works in social and behavioural sciences & humanities

The following encyclopedias comprise of hundreds of articles and the content spans large areas of Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, e.g. social work, sociology, psychology, political science, anthropology, economics, criminology, peace and conflict studies. Hyperlinks accompany each entry, which direct readers to other relevant entries. You can find these encyclopedias in Wiley Online Library.

Comprehensive Handbook of Social Work and Welfare

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioural Sciences

Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology

The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment

The reference works are catalogued in Helka database, too.

This acquisition has been financed with the support of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki.

Feedback:: e-library@helsinki.fi

Emerging Trends in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary, Searchable, and Linkable Resource

Helka Service Break Over – Loans Can Be Checked Out Again

The service break in Helka Library Database is over.

Customers can again access the database and their own customer account at helsinki.fi/helka.

Loans can be renewed but problems may still occur while making online payments. No overdue fees will be collected between December 21st and January 10th.

Customers can check out and return books in the libraries in the usual manner.

The library cannot, however, register new users or update customer information until the service is fully operational. Overdue fees cannot be paid in the library, either.

All library services are expected to return to normal by Wednesday, January 11th.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.