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Trial: SciVal (~21.9)

Elsevier’s new generation of SciVal offers quick, easy access to the research performance of 4,600 research institutions and 220 countries worldwide. A ready-to-use solution with unparalleled power and flexibility, SciVal enables you to navigate the world of research and devise an optimal plan to drive and analyze your performance.

You need to create your username and password by registering when accessing SciVal at first time.

Further information and guidance –>

Trial Period til 21 st September.

Feedback: aija.kaitera [at] helsinki.fi

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Library returns to normal opening hours on Monday August 18th

From Monday August 18th onwards, library follows normal opening hours. Welcome all new and old customers!

Please note that Kumpula Campus Library is closed until August 31st for renovation.

  • A pop-up library at Physicum building’s foyer will be available May 30th – August 31st, Mon.–Fri 10 am.–2 pm.
  • Kumpula’s textbooks can be borrowed from the behavioral sciences’ library Minerva May 19th – August 31st.
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Islam in Russia Database on Trial (~31.8.) ENDED!

Eastview offers a trial on new database Islam in Russia with archives dating back to 2004, this collection delivers access to Russia’s Islamic community’s most important publications on e.g.:

  • Islamic organizations in Russia and abroad
  • Political and economic developments in the Muslim regions of Russia
  • Current state of Islamic education in Russia

Coverage in the database includes the following journals (2004-2014):

  • Islam v sovremennom mire
  • Islam v SNG
  • Islamskii vestnik
  • Medina al’ Islam
  • Minaret Islama
  • Tribuna Islama

This free trial is valid until August 31, 2014.

Feedback: e-library@helsinki.fi

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eBooks for Summer Reading!

Do you belong to those passionate scholars who want to read research monographs, not only thrillers or light novels, even at summer time? There are thousands of quite new eBooks for instance from Cambridge University Press to choose for summer reading.

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 (for instance in  Ebrary 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.

P.S. In eBook services there are control systems which may alarm if you load numerous books on your device under the same session. If so, your access to the books of the service may be blocked. As a rule, it is important to remember certain terms of use related to eBooks.

Have a nice summer and rewarding reading experiences!

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New Website for Helsinki University Library

The Library’s website www.helsinki.fi/library was updated to the new version on Thursday July the 3rd, 2014.

The new site, inspired by the university’s new light visual identity, is responsive and scalable to various devices such as tablets and smartphones. The separate mobile site will be discontinued.

What is new?

There will be some new functionalities along with the new content on the website:

  • Search Library Resources: The Search functionality which allows you to search for library resources directly in HELKA database, Nelli portal and HELDA repository can now be found on each page of the site.
  • All library locations now have a page dedicated to the services of the location.
  • Navigation is easier with megamenu in which the user can directly see the contents of each navigation branch

Give us feedback!

Library will appreciate your feedback on the new site and other digital library services. You can give feedback through our feedback form.

Helsinki University Library wishes all customers a very happy summer!

Helsinki University Library’s Communications and Digital Services

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New platform in LION

LION -Literature Online is now available on ProQuest’s platform.

LION is a library of works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, literature journals, and criticism and reference resources. Criticism section includes the ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature).

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New Resources in Medieval Studies

Brepols Miscellanea Online –  Essays in Medieval Studies  provides online access to book chapters and articles on medieval studies published in Brepols publications in 2014. The collection comprises leading collections of scholarly essays in the histories, literatures, cultures, and societies of medieval Europe.

The usage of the essays is restricted to Helsinki University students, faculty, staff and the local users in the National Library and in the Helsinki University libraries.

The university staff and students may also use the electronic materials remotely outside the university network. Non-Helsinki University users can use e-resources by getting a guest authentication account from staff at the National library information desk. Also all the local users of the Helsinki University Library have access to this reference work.

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New resource for historians: Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online

Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online is considered an authoritative work on the political, social, economic, religious, and cultural history of the Early Modern Period (1450-1850).

Enzyklopädie der Neuzeit Online is restricted to Helsinki University students, faculty, staff and the local users in the National Library and in the Helsinki University libraries. The university staff and students may also use the electronic materials remotely.

Non-Helsinki University users can use e-resources by getting a guest authentication account from staff at the National library information desk. Also all the local users of the Helsinki University Library have access to this reference work.

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Application period for researcher’s places in Library of Parliament

The Researcher’s Room in the Library of Parliament has 10 researcher’s places. The use of a researcher’s place is granted upon application for a five months period at a time.

Places in the Researcher’s Room are intended for researchers whose work involves parliamentary affairs, jurisprudence or society. A researcher is a person who conducts research at the licentiate level or higher and whose work requires extensive use of the collections or archives material in the Library of Parliament. (Library of Parliament’s Researcher’s Room: Conditions of use, 1§)

Application period for researcher’s places for 4.8. – 31.12.2014  begins on Monday 2 June 2014. Applications should be received by the Library of Parliament no later than 4.15 p.m. on Monday 16 June 2014.

Application forms are also available from the Library’s Archival and Reference Service Desk.

Send the application by post to:

Annamari Törnwall

Library of Parliament

00102 EDUSKUNTA

or as an appended file by e-mail to: library@parliament.fi

 

Further information available from:

Annamari Törnwall, tel. (09) 432 3466

Pirkko Kaitaharju, tel. (09) 432 3488