Starting in summer 2016, all group work rooms will be reserved with the Office 365 calendar. The first change starts in Viikki Campus Library, where the old reservation system will be phased out in June.
Viikki Campus Library
Starting June 1st, reservations will be made using the Office 365 calendar.
The library will transfer existing reservations from the old system into the Office 365 calendar.
Viikki campus library is closed during the summer from June 24th until July 31st.
Main Library, Kaisa House
Starting July 1st, reservations will be made using the Office 365 calendar.
In the old Timmi-system reservations can be made for June, but no longer for July.
Any existing reservations for July or later will be transferred to the Office 365 calendar.
The Kumpula Campus Library and the Meilahti Campus Library Terkko are closed from June 24th until July 31st
Group work room reservations in Terkko will move to the Office 365 calendar after the summer break on August 1st.
Any existing reservations will be transferred to the Office 365 calendar.
The group work rooms in Kumpula are already in the Office 365 calendar, but currently reservations have to be made at the service desk.
Starting on August 1st, students will be able to make their own reservations using the Office 365 calendar.
The group work room reservations in the Aleksandria and Minerva learning centres are already in the Office 365 calendar since the beginning of the year 2016.
Further information and instructions will be available in June.
Cairn Info, the French equivalent of Project Muse, is an online collection of publications in the French language, in the area of humanities and social sciences. Created in 2005 by four Belgian and French academic publishers, Cairn is now providing selected resources from 130 publishing houses.
During the trial we have access to more than 400 journals and 4,000 books of which, there are 2,200 research books (monographs, proceedings, other collective works) from French and Belgian publishers e.g. Armand Colin, Autrement, Lavoisier, Gallimard, Le Seuil, De Boeck, La Découverte,L’Harmattan, PUF, ENS, La Documentation française, Presses de Sciences Po, Quae jne.
Archives of Human Sexuality and Identity: LGBTQ History and Culture Since 1940 covers topics including LGBTQ activism and the HIV/AIDS crisis. It provides researchers with the documents necessary to delve deep into the Gay Rights Movement with resources that may otherwise go undiscovered. Repositories for this collection include: Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation; Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives; Women’s Energy Bank; GLBT Historical Society; National Library of Medicine; among other archives.
On Wednesday May 4th libraries are open as follows:
– Main Library 8-18
– Kumpula, Terkko, Viikki 9-16
– Dental Library 9-15.
Learning Centres
– Aleksandria 8-17:45
– Minerva 8-17:45.
On Thursday May 5th (Ascension Day) libraries and learning centres are closed. Aleksandria can be accessed with a magnetic key.
On Friday May 6th libraries and learning centres are open:
– Main Library 8-20
– Kumpula, Terkko, Viikki 9-16
– Dental Library closed
– Aleksandria 8-19:45
– Minerva 8-19:45.
The International African Bibliography Online (IABO) is a leading specialist bibliography of African Studies and contains 140.000 entries of the International African Bibliography published in the years 1971 to 2015 and about 4.000 new publications will be added per year. The IABO can be browsed by categories and offers detailed search options.
The e-resource Treasury of Linguistic Maps presents linguistic maps selected from various atlases and other publications that have been published over the years by De Gruyter Mouton and other De Gruyter imprints. For the first time, this material is made available and searchable in one place and in a new, improved format. All maps have been scanned in high-resolution for maximum quality and enriched with detailed metadata. Thanks to specific search functionalities (e.g. category/subdiscipline, language described in the map, geographical location, period described), Treasury of Linguistic Maps is a unique and indispensable resource for visualized information on various topics in linguistics. Many of these maps have not been digitally available before, and some are difficult to find even in printed form. The map interface allows zooming in on details, printing, and PDF export.
The initial release version contains 2,000 enriched maps. Following the launch year there will be two updates a year with about 1,200 maps added each year. The updates will feature both rediscoveries from De Gruyter’s archives and material from new publications.
The proliferation of open access publishing models in academic publication provides researchers and the academic community with opportunities to share and access academic information faster and more flexibly than before. Finnish institutions of higher education and research institutes are currently negotiating with academic publishers to enable the efficient use of open publication methods. “Our goal is to simultaneously ensure that the overall costs of academic publication do not increase,” states Mikael Laakso, assistant professor at the Hanken School of Economics and member of the strategy group for the negotiations.
Libraries pave the way for researchers towards open access (Picture by Jussi Männistö)
The Ministry of Education and Culture has stated as its goal that Finland will become one of the leading countries in the openness of science and research by 2017. “To reach this goal, we must rapidly transition from subscription-based licensing agreements towards new, open access publishing models,” says Laakso.
Overlapping expenses must be minimised
Currently, institutions of higher education and research institutes pay for academic publications through subscription fees. In an open access model, the author or the author’s organisation pays for the publication of an article. The overall expenses of publication must be examined, as particularly large publishers currently favour hybrid publication, in which a researcher whose article has been accepted for publication in a subscription-based journal can pay a separate publication fee to make his or her article open access. It is important for researchers to publish in journals which are esteemed by the academic community, even if making the article open access requires a separate fee. This model of article fees, however, generates overlapping expenses, unless the publisher correspondingly lowers the subscription fees for the journals in question.
The National Library’s FinELib consortium, which represents institutions of higher education and research institutes in the negotiations, has insisted that the hybrid model, which involves both subscriptions and article fees, be considered an interim solution on the way to full open access publishing. During this transition period it is essential that overlapping expenses from the new open access model and the old subscription model are minimised.
Aiming for a contract with integrated support for open access publishing
The subscription fees for academic journals represent an annual expense of about €23 million for institutions of higher education and research institutes. The exact costs of open access publishing are unknown as they are not monitored in Finland on a national level. However, according to estimates from the project Tieteen avoin julkaiseminen (Open Publication of Science in Finland), in 2014 Finnish universities paid at least €1 million to publish open access articles, and these expenses are on the rise.
Open access models which would be both financially sustainable and easy for researchers are currently also being sought internationally. At the moment, several international campaigns promoting open access are underway, including the Christmas is over campaign organised by the League of European Research Universities and undersigned by several Finnish institutions of higher education. Dutch universities, for example, have been able to negotiate package deals with the major publishers Springer and Wiley which facilitate open access publishing.
Libraries to support open access
Researchers can find support for open access publishing from the library of their organisation as well as the many open access resources online, such as:
Vice-Rector Keijo Hämäläinen, University of Helsinki, chair of the strategy group for the contract negotiations, tel. 029 415 0640, keijo.hamalainen@helsinki.fi
Assistant Professor Mikael Laakso, Hanken School of Economics, member of the strategy group for the contract negotiations, tel. 050 9100 864, mikael.laakso@hanken.fi
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Brander Signe, 1907. Helsinki City Museum
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