University of Helsinki
EDITORIAL
Kai Ekholm
Solutions-based future lies ahead
Finland’s drive to become a world leader in open scienceOpen science is rapidly developing all over the world. How are we Finns doing? By Riitta Maijala
Open science opens up the libraryHow is the National Library promoting openness and accessibility in academic publishing?
By Esa-Pekka Keskitalo
Ambitious Aviisi aims to increase the availability of copyrighted newspapersNational Library’s collaborative Aviisi project aims to make available copyright-restricted newspapers from the 20th and 21st centuries more extensively than ever before. By Pirjo Karppinen
Sibelius’ collected works on his 150th birthday2015 marks not only Jean Sibelius’ birth anniversary, but also the halfway point in a groundbreaking National Library project to publish more than 50 individual volumes of the great composer’s oeuvre. By Timo Virtanen
From crowdsourcing to nichesourcingThe world’s largest collection of Uralic language materials digitised.
By Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen
“A wonderful gift to the nation.”As the immense renovation of the historic National Library of Finland building edges towards completion, the project’s conservation specialists reveal its challenges, surprises and significance. By Suvi Kingsley
Old dissertations and new technologies: a good match?What were the technical and other hurdles in the digitisation project of the old Royal Academy of Turku dissertations? And how were they solved?By Juha Hakala
Rarities of experimental literatureThe Slavonic Library within the National Library of Finland houses Futurist rarities from the early 20th century.
By Tomi Huttunen
People, tech and connecting across cultural dividesThe challenge for digital libraries such as the National Library’s Finna is to create a positive user experience for audiences in diverse and undefined cultural contexts. By Molly Schwartz
OTHER LIBRARY NEWS
FinELib Consortium’s strategy revised to meet future needs
Development and strategy of Finna
The National Library’s Finto: building interoperability for the public sector
The National Library opens up its data
Finnish parliamentary elections online materials into an online archive
The use of open source in the National Library
The Hague Declaration – Fostering Open Science
International cooperation 2014