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On trial RILM Music Encyclopedias until 1.4

RILM Music Encyclopedias is a full-text compilation of 41 seminal titles published from 1775 to the present and comprising nearly 80,000 pages.

This is an extensive global resource designed to meet the teaching, learning, and research needs of the international music community. It provides comprehensive encyclopedic coverage of the most important disciplines, fields, and subject areas, among them popular music, opera, instruments, blues, gospel, recorded sound, and women composers. Its content spans multiple countries and languages—English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Greek.

Feedback: e -library@helsinki.fi

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Store, Use and Manage Research Data

Research Data Management – Guide tells you the data storage services and policy at the University of Helsinki. You can also learn more about UH recommendations for sharing & reuse of research data.

dataThe management of research data refers to creating and storing research data and related descriptive metadata so as to preserve the usability and reliability of the material.
See also:
Tuuli (DMP tool)

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

The ResearchGuides lists a selection of major information resources in various research fields provided by the Library.  It is made  especially for researchers and advanced students.

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What is your experience of using e-books? Participate in online survey!

University libraries gather now students and teachers user experience about e-books in studies and teaching. E-books are the electronic versions of printed books which can be read on a computer or mobile device.

The feedback collected through this survey will be used to further develop the accessibility and usability of e-books you need in your studies, so your opinion is very important to us!

bookThe survey for students: https://my.surveypal.com/-E-kirjat-opintojen-tukena–kysely

The survey for teachers: https://my.surveypal.com/E-kirjat–opetuksen-tukena-kysely

Your answers will be confidential and your privacy will be respected. Individual respondents will not be identifiable in the final reporting. The research material will be archived in the Finnish Social Science Data Archive for further use in academic research and teaching.

The survey form will be online until 31 May 2016.

The survey is part of the e-textbook project of the FinELib Consortium. It is carried out by the National Library of Finland in cooperation with higher education libraries. You can contact the organizers of the survey through finelib@helsinki.fi.

​Thank you for participating!

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No History – Nor Criticism? New guides on History, Literary & Gender Studies

Library Guides are especially designed to fulfill researchers’ information needs. You will find the most relevant sources of information, core databases, journals, articles and news feeds from our guides.

History
Literary Studies (Literary Criticism and Finnish Literature Research)
Gender Studies

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Find more practical Library Guides:

What is it all about?

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

The ResearchGuides lists a selection of major information resources in various research fields provided by the Library. ResearchGuides collects library’s information sources and services  from the viewpoint of each research field. It is made  especially for researchers and advanced students.

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Researcher in Aesthetics or Theater: information resources for you!

We have designed two more guides on Art studies :

Library guides are especially designed to fulfill researchers’ information needs. You will find the most relevant sources of information, core databases, journals, articles and news feeds from our guides.

More practical library guides relevant to Art Studies:

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What is it all about?

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

The ResearchGuides lists a selection of major information resources in various research fields provided by the Library. ResearchGuides collects library’s information sources and services  from the viewpoint of each research field. It is targeted especially for researchers and advanced students.

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Science AAAS evolution is here – check out redesigned website

Science´s (AAAS) redesigned website makes it easier to access, read, and share articles using a responsive web design that provides an optimal viewing and interaction experience across a wide range of devices from desktop to mobile phones. The new, streamlined design has more accessible article content, one-click article references, sharing tools, and much more.

Furthermore, Science Express is now called “First Release”. First Release provides electronic publication of selected Science papers in advance of print.

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Read more: Access to Science journals in 2016

Do you have any other questions, feedback, or comments? Contact us: e-library[at]helsinki.fi

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Proquest service alert 17.6. 5.00-

On January 17, 2016, ProQuest will be upgrading its systems infrastructure to improve performance, security, and overall reliability. The maintenance window is scheduled to begin at 5.00 AM and will last for 8 hours.

More information from Proquest page.

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Reservation system for Aleksandria group work rooms changes

The reservations of the student group areas in Aleksandria move from the varaus.it.helsinki.fi system to Office 365 as of 1 January 2016. The old varaus.it.helsinki.fi will be shut down in January 2016.

In Office 365, the reservations are made using the dedicated calendar where students have the right to make reservations.

Reservations already made for year 2016 are not transferred automatically to Office 365. If necessary, the IT Center contacts the people who have already made such reservations.

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Helsinki University Library opens its data for the general public

Helsinki University Library’s open data web service api.hulib.helsinki.fi offers the vast majority of the library’s data in easy-to-use JSON format. In addition to library catalog data, the service contains data of University of Helsinki disciplines and library opening hours. The APIs are documented in Swagger specifications.

Citizens and businesses can retrieve library’s data from the service for personal or commercial purposes. For example, we hope to see new mobile services based on our data. The service will be expanded and developed further in the future. We are planning to open data of Helda, as well as University’s research groups‘ publication data through the service.

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The service was implemented by the Helsinki University Library’s application development group. Helsinki University Library has long been a pioneer in the application of information technology, but the current closed library system prevents the library catalog data from appearing in search engines such as Google. The current library system does not provide any tools for opening the data. The upcoming new library system should have built-in support for open APIs.