Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto – Helsingfors universitets bibliotek – Helsinki University Library
Hey new student, do you need a library card for Helsinki University Library?
You can order the library card in advance with an e-form. The card will be available for pick-up after 2 working days in any campus library you choose.
Please, take your identity card or passport with you. You will also need a finnish social security number or your certificate of attendance from the Helsinki University.
Helsinki University Library strengthens its methods towards a tighter support for the researchers and the research community. At the moment the services and research collaboration for this key group are very current being either available already or under development. Most essential among these services are bibliometrics, open archives and research data services.
Research data services mean the support offered for the data management of research material. In future the library’s data services help both in creating metadata and storing and organizing the data so that it remains usable throughout its life cycle; from gathering up the material to a possible reuse.
“This new field in the library’s services means a renewed understanding and expansion of the traditional work. Scientific publications are data as well as research data on which they are based. Helsinki University Library is strongly involved in the present information environment with its constant and fast changes in technologies, research and publishing.” These were the opening lines of Meilahti Campus Library’s director Annikki Roos (photo above). She is in charge of Helsinki University Library’s research data project and she was the chair of the seminar Researcher’s data services, held at the Helsinki University Library on August 30th, 2013.
There were almost 50 participants from the library and the university listening to experts from CSC – the IT Center for Science (photo: director Pirjo-Leena Forsström, data services for science and culture), and the university’s IT department, research administration and the National Library’s Network Services. The event was the closing seminar of the Helsinki University Library’s internal staff training that started in fall 2012. Fifteen staff members participated the training and gained knowledge in how to create data services, collaborating both locally at their own university and also nationally and internationally.
Dr. Kimmo Tuominen, the University Librarian, stated at the seminar’s closing remarks that Helsinki University Library acts as a catalyst for change with the developmental work for the management of research data. In this aspect the library stands among the most advanced in Europe. Other universities in Finland have made requests to join the library’s research data training.
According to the Helsinki university research infrastructure program for the years 2013-2016 “current research infra structures and professional support staff ensure high-standard research”. The research data services and collaboration within it are taking Helsinki University among the world’s 50 best universities as stated in its strategy.
For more information, please contact Campus Library Director Annikki Roos, annikki.roos[at]helsinki.fi
Photos: Veera Ristikartano
You can download the new Write-N-Cite program (4.2.1141) to your personal computer from your RefWorks account (Tools -> Write-N-Cite).
Newspapers.com is the online home of 48+ million pages of historical newspapers from 1700 newspapers from around the United States and beyond.
Trial period: 26.08.-30.09.2013
When you use Newspapers.com at University of Helsinki you have access all the papers on the site. You can register for free to clip articles or other interesting things you find.
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu@helsinki.fi
When the library is closed the loans can be returned to a return box next to the main doors of the Info Centre.
Info Centre computer labs are open Mon to Fri at 7.30.
Starting September 2013, Viikki Campus Library does not lend out journals. In the library there are many multifunction printers for copying and scanning articles.
• THE LOAN PERIOD FOR COURSE BOOKS IS 14 DAYS
The loan period for textbooks in the Viikki Campus Library will be 14 days, starting from September the 2nd, 2013. The change in loan period will speed up the circulation of the books so that more students are able to get the required textbook in time.
HELDA, the digital repository of the University of Helsinki, ranks 54th on the global list of publication archives.
Main reasons for the good placement on the list are visibility and high-quality contents. Visibility on this ranking list is determined simply by the quantity of links leading to HELDA. As to contents, the most important factor is the number of scientific articles in the repository. The articles are counted with the help of Google Scholar –service.
HELDA is an open digital repository, maintained by the Helsinki University Library’s web-services. University members can save to the archive publications such as parts of research material and theses that are openly and publicly accessible. The object of HELDA is to enhance the visibility, use and impact of the university’s research publications.
The” Ranking Web of World repositories” is an initiative of the Cybermetrics Lab, a research group belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), the largest public research body in Spain.
How the first papers about DNA were received at the time in the 1950s? What kind of a shock was the discovery of the ozone hole in the mid-1980s?
The Nature Nature PastCast is a podcast series telling the stories behind some of the biggest papers in Nature’s archive. Each month for a year, the PastCast will explore Nature‘s back catalogue, setting in context key moments in the history of science – and rooting out some of the quirkier reports from the journal.
On the same site as the links to the audio shows are the links to the contents of archives of Nature and Scientific American.
The loan period for textbooks in the Main Library (Kaisa House) will be 14 days, starting from August the 19th, 2013. The change in loan period will speed up the circulation of the books so that more students are able to get the required textbook in time.
If you currently have textbooks from Main Library checked out, you can proceed to renew the loans normally. If there are no reservations for the books, the loans will renewed with 14 day loan period.
The loan periods for library material may vary depending on the library location and the collection.
The 94th edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics has been published.
From the Preface:
The 94th Edition of the Handbook includes new tables as well as major updates and expansions. A new series highlighting the achievements of some of the leading figures in chemistry and physics has also been initiated. This edition and succeeding editions will provide biographical information, a list of major achievements, and notable quotations attributed to each of the renowned chemists and physicists.
The following new tables have been added to the 94th edition:
Section 7: Biochemistry
Properties of Fatty Acid Methyl and Ethyl Esters Related to Biofuels
Section 8: Analytical Chemistry
Gas Chromatographic Retention Indices
Detectors for Liquid Chromatography
Organic Analytical Reagents for the Determination of Inorganic Ions
Section 12: Properties of Solids
Properties of Selected Materials at Cryogenic Temperatures
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