Helsinki University Libraries and Electronic Resources

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Helsinki University Libraries and Electronic
Resources

• Maria Forsman Terttu Turunen
• Social Science Library at the University of
  Helsinki
• Leonardo da Vinci Seminar
• 8.5.2007 Vilnius

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University of Helsinki in brief

• Research, teaching and interaction with society
• Bilingual (Finnish and Swedish), teaching also in
  English
• 11 faculties
• 38 000 undergraduate students, 57 000 continuing
  education and Open University students
• 7 600 employees, 3 700 of whom researchers and
  teachers
• Funding 509 million euros (2005)
• Established in Turku 1640, moved to Helsinki 1828
• Operates on 4 campuses in Helsinki and in 20
  other towns in Finland
• Aims at establishing its position among the
  leading multidisciplinary research universities
  in Europe

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Libraries at the University of Helsinki- Library
and information services on four campuses

• Two large entities
• National Library
• University of Helsinki Libraries
• Three campus libraries
• Viikki Science Library
• National Library of Health Sciences
• Kumpula Science Library
• Five faculty libraries (theology, law, arts,
  behavioural sciences, social sciences)
• The Undergraduate library

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Coordination of the operations of the
University of Helsinki library system
University Senate/ Rectors
Administration Office/ Library
Coordination Office Director of Library and
Information Services
Ministry of Education
Vice Rector / Library Board
Board of the National Library
City Centre Campus Library Committee
Board of the Kumpula Campus Lib.
Board of the Nat. Lib. of Health Sc.
Board of the Viikki Science Lib
Boards and committees
Board
National Library
Undergrad. Library
TheologyLib.
Viikki Science Library
National Lib. of Health Sciences
Kumpula Science Library
Law Lib.
Arts Fac. Lib.
Library of the Swedish School of Social
Science
Fac. of Behavioural Sci. Lib.
Soc. Sci. Lib.
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Libraries on four campuses
Viikki Campus Faculty of Agriculture and
Forestry, Faculty of Biosciences,Faculty of
Pharmacy,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
students 5 300, staff 2 500 Viikki Science
Library
Meilahti Campus Faculty of Medicine students
2 000 staff 1 500 HUCH 10 000 National Library
of Health Sciences
City Center Campus Faculty of Theology,Faculty
of Law,Faculty of Arts,Faculty of Behavioural
Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences students 22
000, staff 3 000 National LibraryUndergraduate
LibraryFive faculty libraries
Kumpula Campus Faculty of Science students 6
000, staff 1 000 Kumpula Science Library
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The Electronic Library of the University of
Helsinki - Objectives

• High-quality digital resources
• User-friendly web services
• Flexible study environments
• Information literacy promotes learning
• Sufficient resources and efficient organisation

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E-library services at the University of Helsinki

• University wide access
• Available to users through Nelli-portal
  (ExLibris/Metalib, SFX)
• 12 000 ejournals
• (f. ex. Elsevier, Springer, Wiley Ebsco Academic
  Search Premier, ProQuest AbI Inform)
• 6 500 print journal subscriptions
• 300 reference databases, handbooks and
  dictionaries
• 3 000 monographs
• 250 000 Old English Books (EEBO2005, ECCO 2006)
• 80 licensed in the national FinELib consortium
• 20 licensed by the university

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The Model of Acquisitions of Electronic Material

• FinELib
• National consortias (80)
• University of Helsinki (20)
• Coordination Unit
• Social Science Library

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The Electronic Library Usage

• University wide access
• Available to users through Nelli-portal
  (ExLibris/Metalib, SFX)
• 1,4 million full text article downloads
• Licensed dictionaries 4 million searches

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Discussion

• More electronic material available
• Differences between sciences and humanities
  (incl. social sciences)
• Effects of the available library material to
  research work
• Changes in the research work