On trial GeoScienceWorld until 30.6

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GeoScienceWorld (GSW) is a nonprofit collaborative and comprehensive Internet resource for research and communications in the earth sciences, which is built on a core database of peer-reviewed journals and is integrated with the GeoRef abstract and index service. The organization gives global researchers a single point of access to 45 full-text scholarly journals plus specialized searching capabilities and links to millions of relevant resources hosted elsewhere on the Web.

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Summer Reading Guaranteed!

If you belong to the staff or students of the University of Helsinki You will have summer reading enough. There are hundreds of quite new e-books acquired by the Library to choose from. The books are from respected publishers and they are almost in all fields of learning.

The new e-books most interesting to the staff and students of the City Centre Campus can be found among the e-books acquired from Palgrave, Taylor&Francis and Springer.

The staff and students  of Kumpula, Meilahti and Viikki  Campus may find relevant reading especially among the books acquired from Springer. CRC. and Mc Graw Hill (AccessMedicine)

Springer Computer Science 2015 provides over 400 brand new eBooks in varying subdisciplines of computer science. Among them there are titles which may interest also other scholars, not only computer scientists.

Do not forget our e-book service Book Navigator which provides hundreds of thousands of both newer and older e-books.

The eBooks acquired by the Helsinki University Library are accessible to you if you have a valid user account for the University information systems. Among our eBooks there are numerous such ones which you can download on your mobile device to read them off-line if you are travelling in palaces without internet access. If you have problems with dowloading, remember our E-book Guide!

Have a nice summer and rewarding reading experiences!

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Service Break on Booking System Timmi on Friday

There will be a service break on university’s room reservation system Timmi on Friday, June 5th. 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. New reservations can not be made or existing ones updated.

We are sorry for any inconvenience.

New eBooks in Biomedical and Life Sciences from Springer

The Springer eBook package Biomedical and Life Sciences 2015 provides hundreds of titles. The fields of the books are as follows:

The books will be catalogued in HELKA and they can be found in BookNavigator in the near future.

NOTICE! Springer’s MyCopy Service: You can buy a digitally printed copy of each Springer e-book accessible to us. You can find the link to the service in the front page of each e-book! The prise is 24,99 EUR.

Hundreds of New eBooks from Taylor&Francis

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There are hundreds of quite new e-books (2014-2015) from Taylor&Francis now accessible to the staff and students of the University of Helsinki. The fields of the books are as follows:

The books can be found through  the HELKA database and BookaNavigator. The most popular titles will be acquired permanently.

Read more on this kind of patron driven acquisition models!–>

New eBooks from Palgrave

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The Library has subscribed a few eBooks from Palgrave. The books are mostly in the following subject areas:

The books are such ones our customers have proposed to be subscribed. They can be found through HELKA and BookNavigator in the near future. For the present they can be read in the Palgrave eBook Service.

If you find in the Palgrave eBook service some titles important for your studies but not accessible to UH, make an acquisition proposal!

Kaisa Library is popular also on Sundays – The experiment proved to be a success!

The Main Library in the Kaisa House was open on three Sundays in April as a tryout. The work stations and equipment were available in the facilities as well as the customer service on the 3rd floor.

There were slightly more than 1000 visitors on each Sunday. Most popular were the silent reading spaces of which 70% were in use in the afternoons. Most of the lending and returning were done as self-service. According to the staff Sundays were like Saturdays but somewhat quieter in the customer service.

Quiet reading area on the 2nd floor

Library users’ feedback was merely positive. The most expressed wish was that in future the Library would be open on Sundays. Sharing the experience in social media was possible with the hashtag #munkirjasto and participants were able to win movie tickets. The Library has contacted the three winners in early May. Thank you all for your feedback!

The trial proved that there is a definite demand to keep the Library open on Sundays. The plan is to extend the opening hours to Sundays at least during the most hectic periods of the terms. This will most likely come true in March-April 2016, but might be realized already during the late autumn period 2015.