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Ejournals and Database Subscriptions Renewed

Helsinki University Library has been able to acquire some e-journals and database subscriptions that were originally cancelled for 2016 due the financial cuts. The purchases are made with extra funding from the University Rector. The subscriptions chosen for renewal were the ones the university community missed the most.

On top of the purchases, the library has received a few subscriptions as donations from the Finnish scientific publishers. Continue reading “Ejournals and Database Subscriptions Renewed”

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Trial: Biblioclub – University Library Online ~31.5.2016

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Biblioclub – University Library Online is a  Russian eBook platform and an internet library containing more than 80 000 ebooks on literature, history, philosophy, social sciences, culture, arts, religion, natural and information sciences. The collection is offered in page-by-page view and includes all subject collections, textbooks, and a number of publishers’ collections: Siberian division of Russian Academy of Sciences, ABV-press, Institute of Psychology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Labaratoriia knigi, Literaturnoe agentstvo “Akademicheskii proekt”, Moscow State University, Flinta.

Users are able to have access to materials in page-by-page view, save, copy and download fragments of books.

If the browser used for work is Internet Explorer, the recommended version is not lower that Internet Explorer 9.

Trial period:  until 31.5.2016

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: IUPAC Standards Online 6.5. asti

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IUPAC Standards Online is a database built from IUPAC’s standards and recommendations, extracted from the journal Pure and Applied Chemistry (PAC).

Covered topics:

Analytical Chemistry
Biochemistry
Chemical Safety
Data Management
Education
Environmental Chemistry
Inorganic Chemistry
Materials
Medicinal Chemistry
Nomenclature and Terminology
Nuclear Chemistry
Organic Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
Toxicology

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: Education Full Text until 31.5.2016

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Education Full Text provides full text of articles from more than 530 journals, with full-text coverage dating back to 1996. Additionally, this database includes indexing for more than 1,000 periodicals dating back to 1982. Education Full Text also features in-depth coverage of special education, with more than 30 full-text journals dedicated to this important topic.

Feedback: e -library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: Norden iLibrary until 30.5.

On trial Norden iLibrary. Being primarily research-based analyses the publications form the basis for political decisions in the Nordic co-operation.

Every year around 100 new Nordic titles are published, approximately 65% of which are in English. They cover all the subjects that are part of the Nordic co-operation, with particular focus on:

•climate and environmental studies
•green growth and bioeconomy
•sustainable development
•health and social welfare
•education and research
•labour and employment
•the Arctic

Feedback:
e -library@helsinki.fi

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Trial: MarinLit until 21.4.

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MarinLit is a database dedicated to marine natural products research. The database was established in the 1970s by Professors John Blunt and Murray Munro at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. It was designed as an in-house system to fulfil the needs of the University of Canterbury Marine Group and has evolved to contain unique searchable features and powerful dereplication tools. The extremely comprehensive range of data contained along with these powerful features makes MarinLit the database of choice for marine natural products researchers.

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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Open by default: Open Access guide for researchers

Wondering where to publish Open Access or how to cope with all the demands of openness by the research funders? How can an individual researcher publish openly? And what do we mean in the first place when we talk about Open Access publishing?

You can now reach it all with one click:

Open Access: Guide for Researchers is aimed to those looking for practical guidance on Open Access policies and possibilities (inc. self-archiving) at the University of Helsinki.

Should any questions arise, feel free to use this e-mail address:

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Read more:
Open Science and Research
Open Scholarship
SPARC Europe

Our OA-guide is also available in Finnish:

ResearchGuides – Library’s information sources from various research fields, expert librarians and help guides

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Opening hours during Easter

tiputDuring Easter the libraries are closed from Good Friday until Easter Monday March 25th to March 28th, 2016.

On Maundy Thursday (March 24th), the libraries are open as follows:
– Kaisa House  8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
– Kumpula, Terkko and Viikki 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
– Dental Library 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.

The Main Library in Kaisa House will be open on four Sundays after Easter from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Learning Centres Aleksandria and Minerva are open 8 a.m. – 5:45 p.m. on Maundy Thursday. Aleksandria can be accessed with magnetic key during Easter (from 7 a.m. until 1 a.m.).

Library’s and learning centres’ opening hours

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Newspapers from around the world – ProQuest Newsstand on trial until 30 April

ProQuest Newsstand database offers unparalleled access to the full text of more than 1300 newspapers, news websites and blogs from leading publishers throughout the world. Major newspapers include The Guardian, Le Monde diplomatique, El Pais, Observer, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and many others.

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You can search a single title by using Search for library resources box on the Library’s website. All titles can also be found in NELLI and HELKA.

Database is on trial until 30 April 2016.

If you have any questions, we are glad to help with those: e-library[at]helsinki.fi