Helsinki University Libraries and Electronic Resources

Maria Forsman & Terttu TurunenSocial Science Library at the University of

HelsinkiLeonardo da Vinci Seminar

8.5.2007 Vilnius

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

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

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

Administration Office/ Library Coordination Office

Director of Library and Information ServicesVice 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

Ministry of Education

National Library

Boards and committees Board

Undergrad. Library

TheologyLib.

Law Lib.

Arts Fac. Lib.

Fac. of Behavioural

Sci. Lib.

Soc. Sci. Lib.*

Viikki Science Library

National Lib. of Health Sciences

Kumpula Science Library

Coordination of the operations of the University of Helsinki library system

* + Library of the Swedish School of Social Science

University Senate/ Rectors

Libraries on four campuses

Kumpula CampusFaculty of Science

students 6 000, staff 1 000

Kumpula Science Library

Viikki CampusFaculty of Agriculture

and Forestry, Faculty of Biosciences,Faculty of Pharmacy,

Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

students 5 300, staff 2 500

Viikki Science Library

Meilahti CampusFaculty of Medicine

students 2 000 staff 1 500

HUCH 10 000

National Library of Health Sciences

City Center CampusFaculty 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

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

organisation

The Electronic Library of the University of Helsinki - Objectives

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

The Model of Acquisitions of Electronic Material

FinELib National consortias (80%)

University of Helsinki (20%) Coordination Unit Social Science Library

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Printed and Electronic Material Acquisitions in the Social Science Library at the University of Helsinki 2002-2006

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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

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