University of Helsinki
On Friday December 18th the 7th floor in the Main Library closes exceptionally already at 15:00 due to the Christmas party at the library.
Other floors in the Kaisa Library are available throughout the opening hours from 9 am to 6 pm.
Elevators to the Kaisa House are out of order
The elevators to the Kaisa-library from Kaisaniemenkatu and metrostation are out of order.
Repairs will start on December 17th at 12 p.m., and are expected to be finished during the afternoon. During the reparation will also elevators inside the Kaisa-library be out of order.
You can only enter the library from Fabianinkatu and through the café on Vuorikatu.
For equal access options, please contact the library in advance:
Main Library
Fabianinkatu 30
tel. 02941 23920
email: library-citycentre@helsinki.fi
We apologize for the inconvenience!
It takes only HUPS and library material is on researcher’s desk!
Service for the University of Helsinki and HUCH researchers
HUPS is a Helsinki University Library’s service for researchers, using which the Helsinki University and HUCH staff can order books and copies of journal articles free of charge from the Helsinki University Library’s collections.
The material is delivered directly to researcher and the researcher therefore does not have to retrieve it from the library personally.
Some researchers have already become regular users of the service.
Literature arrives in the mailbox
Trial of the HUPS service started in May 2015. In half a year, over 300 orders have been made from all over the University. Requests have mostly been for article copies, little more than a third of the orders have been books. As a rule, orders have been delivered within a few days.
Place an order here!
Order can be made by using this form.
You will find the form by following the HUPS logo on the library’s website, on Flamma-intranet, in Terkko Navigator and in ResearchGuides.
In the near future HUPS-logo will appear also in your search results, when searching library resources on the Library’s website.
You still have time…
Next year the funding of the Helsinki University Library is cut more than 2 million euros compared to the year 2015. Due to the large savings more than twenty databases and ten reference works are unsubscribed for the year 2016. However, there are still a few weeks left to use those resources. Lists of unsubscribed databases in research areas of City Centre Campus and Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki.
Because of the funding cuts the Library is forced to unsubscribe also hundreds of journals. Find a list of unsubscribed journals Here.
Your feedback is welcome: e-library[at]helsinki.fi
More information: Large savings will impact material purchases significantly
Self-service reservation pickups in the Main Library and in Viikki
From the start of next year self-service for reservation pickups will be extended to include Kaisa House and the Viikki Campus Library. The Kumpula campus library introduced self-service pickups in September 2014.
The Meilahti Campus Library will not, for now, introduce self-service pickups, in Terkko reservations will still be available at the service desk.
Reserved materials are shelved according to customer name
The reservation fee for textbooks will be added to your account when the reserved item becomes available for pickup.
If you do not wish to have your reservations on an open shelf under your name, please notify any Helka library, and you can continue to pick up reservations at the service desk.
New Resources: AccessPharmacy and Neurology Collection!
AccessPharmacy contains pharmacological e-books, e-textbooks and video tutorials.
Neurology collection contains neurological e-books and video tutorials.
Lucia Christmas Market 11th December
Large savings will impact material purchases significantly
Next year the funding of the Helsinki University Library is cut more than 2 million euros compared to the year 2015. The large savings have an impact to material purchases e.g. the Library is unable to continue all journal subscriptions and the access to some of the current databases cannot be guaranteed.
To keep the material cut as small as possible the Library is going to renew its services and reduce some of the facilities in a controlled way.
All the disciplines have been treated equally, the reduction affects all, says the Service Director Annikki Roos. The weeding of resources has been difficult, diminishing the standard of service is not pleasant to anyone.
The resources on the reduction list have been thoroughly evaluated. In addition to the user figures the Library’s information specialists have calculated e.g. the price of one use per a certain journal and also done retrospective analysis of the development of costs. Other evaluation methods have been e.g. journal’s JUFO-classification, impact factors, reference analyses and the feedback from researchers.
However, we must remember that the majority of subscriptions continue as before and new material is also acquired, says Annikki Roos.
The weeding includes all resources from e-journals to text books. The Library has already been prepared for the future by acquiring new e-book packages and reference material for the year 2016.
E-book is the primary text book
As a rule the Library acquires resources as e-books and e-journals. The acquisition of printed text books is bound to diminish due to the cutting of funds.
When planning the course requirements the teachers could benefit more than before from e-books, digital journal articles and open access publications.
The Library wishes that when the faculties and departments evaluate the renewals of course requirements they would also take into consideration the cost of material.
In future the students have to be prepared to co-operate with other course attendants in a way that enables the course material for all, or to purchase the literature with own funds.
Open access enables the change
The increase in scientific open access publishing brings a little glimpse of hope to the gloom due to the fund cuts in the University and its Library, states the University Librarian, Professor Kimmo Tuominen from the Helsinki University Library.
For example parallel saving of article manuscripts to the University’s open-access digital archive Helda is recommendable to all researchers. We have to advance and take action step by step in order to change the unfavorable cost structure and to enhance the open and unrestricted publication of scholarly articles.
Open science is one of the University’s key goals in the next strategy term. The University has signed among other things LERU’s Christmas is over statement and the Haag declaration, both of which react to the present situation in scientific publishing and to the control of copyrights which affect unfavorably the development in research activity.
More information
- A list and a timetable concerning the suspension of material has been published on the website of the Helsinki University Library www.helsinki.fi/kirjasto
- We recommend the Library’s Interlibrary loan service through which you can order material not available in the Helsinki metropolitan area.
- Feedback can be sent to the address e-library@helsinki.fi
- Additional information from the Library’s Service Director Annikki Roos annikki.roos@helsinki.fi , tel. 050 415 5560 and
- University Librarian Kimmo Tuominen, kimmo.tuominen@helsinki.fi, tel. 050 416 0364
Opening of the Learning Centre Minerva on Tuesday December 1st
Opening on Tuesday, December 1st at 1 pm – 4 pm
Siltavuorenpenger 5A, Floor K2
Opening program: Circuit training
Presentations are in Finnish.
Ring 1: CleverTouch screen demo
Ring 2: E-point: Electronic library at your disposal
Ring 3: Office365: How to make a group work room reservation and what else is Office365
Ring 4: Ask the librarian! Tell us your experiences, greetings, feedback, wishes about the Learning Centre.
Group work area, computers, mobile storage units, reading places
The redesigned group work and reading areas will open at last at Siltavuorenpenger. Feel free to explore and test facilities! We welcome your comments and experiences: the librarian is present at 1 pm – 3 pm on Wed-Thu Dec 3rd-4th and on Tue-Thu Dec 8th-10th.
Entrance to the Learning Centre is at K2 floor, next to the Minerva Square. The space is available weekdays between 8 am – 7:45 pm. Furnishing of The Learning Centre is still in progress, so installations of sofas and computers may cause some inconvenience.
Service Break on Booking System Timmi in November 24th
There will be a service break on university’s room reservation system Timmi on Tuesday, November 24th. The estimated duration of the break is from 8 am until noon.
During the break the system will be updated and can not be used. That means reservations for Kaisa-Library group work rooms can not be made or existing ones updated.
We are sorry for any inconvenience.