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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that is both an ancient historical tradition and a flourishing tradition today.
Find eDictionaries through a new Guide!
MOT Dictionaries are largely known and used, at least basic dictionaries. There are, however, numerous MOT special dictionaries and term banks which may not be so well known or even noticed. Moreover, there are also other e-dictionaries in the Library’s e-collection than those in MOT.
Our new guide to e-dictionaries may help you find out a diverse range of our online dictionaries.
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.
Feedback: e -library@helsinki.fi
Summer opening hours of the Kaisa Library from Monday June 15th
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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Hundreds of New eBooks in CRCnetBase!
There are hundreds of new (2013-2015) e-books In CRCnetBASE. 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!–>
On trial Digitalia Hispánica until 30.6.
Digitalia Hispánica is the most complete database of e-books and e-journals on Spanish Language. It is included more than 13,000 electronic documents from different subject areas like Art, History, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology and Religion, Science and Medicine.
Feedback e -library@helsinki.fi
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) – Trial till June 30!
Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) makes the backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences available electronically, providing access to the searchable full text of hundreds of titles.
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu[at]helsinki.fi
Digital National Security Archive – Trial till 30 June!
Digital National Security Archive, this resource consists of expertly curated, and meticulously indexed, declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu[at]helsinki.fi
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.