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CRCnetBASE provides over 13 000 eBooks from Taylor & Francis Group. The books available are mostly in the fields of science, technology and medicine but there are a few titles in the fields of social sciences and law, too.
Trial period: 15.09.-15.10.2014 = ENDED. Feedback: e-library[at]helsinki.fi
TRIAL ENDED October 9!
Taylor & Francis eBooks offers instant access to more than 45,000 titles — from general subject areas to interdisciplinary selections hand-picked by our editorial teams.
The books can be browsed by subject areas.
Small amount of books needs a FileOpen-plugin for Adobe Reader. FileOpen is already installed to all Helsinki University computers. You can install FileOpen onto your own device from here.
The university staff and students may also use the these e-books remotely outside the university network. Non-Helsinki University users can use them in the units of the Library.
Trial period: 8.9.-9.10.2014. Feedback as comment or by e-mail.
During the next two months the staff and student of The University of Helsinki have access to more e-books on several subject areas than usually, thanks to trial for EBSCO’s Academic Collection eBooks.
You can read the books online or download them on your mobile device to read them off-line. [EBSCO’s Dowloading eBooks Tutorial –>]
There are now more than 1000 new eBooks from Cambridge University Press accessible to the students and staff of the University in the Cambridge Books Online interface.
Abour 300 new titles have been added to the collection during summer time and 50-100 ones will be added monthly.
The books are published 2013-2014 and they are on the fields of all campuses, for instance:
All these books (and hundreds added during the next 6-7 months) will be accessible until the end of March 2015. The most popular of them will be acquired permanently. (Further information on the acquisition model –>)
These E-books can be browsed by subject in Cambridge Books Online .The books accessible to UH have been marked by the green ball with P.
The books are catalogued in HELKA.
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!
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.
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.
Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World traces the enduring history and wide-ranging cultural influence of Neo-Latin, the form of Latin that originated in the Italian Renaissance and persists to the modern era. Featuring original contributions by a host of distinguished international scholars, this comprehensive reference work explores every aspect of the civilized world from literature and law to philosophy and the sciences.
The usage of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin World 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 library information desks.
Feedback: kk-tietopalvelu(at)helsinki.fi
There are more than 600 new eBooks from Cambridge University Press accessible to the students and staff of the University in the Cambridge Books Online interface. The books are published 2013-2014 and they are on the fields of all campuses.
The books now accessible are the base collection. New titles will be added monthly. All these books are accessible until the end of March 2015. The most popular of them will be acquired permanently. (Further information on the acquisition model –>)
The title list of the base collection by subject fields —>
The books are catalogued in HELKA.
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