ProQuest Primary Sources Webinar
23.04.2020
Keyword: information resources
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New Historical Newspapers databases available
03.12.2019
Newspaper articles are important primary source material for researchers of a specific historical period or news coverage of various events. The library has acquired 14 ProQuest Historical Newspapers databases in 2019. These English-language newspaper collections allow researchers to digitally travel back through centuries across Europe, Asia and North America. Each issue includes the complete paper with articles, photos, cartoons, advertisements and obituaries and more.
November - The Rainbow Month
04.11.2019
Queer History Month is organized second time in November 2019. Seta and Culture for All Service call on cultural and memory organizations to join. Turku University Library demonstrates two resources handling the subject.
How does the library acquire the vast collections for the customers?
08.10.2019
Turku University Library acquires hundreds of individual printed and electronic books every year. There is also altogether a subscription to about 800 printed and electronic journals. However, the majority of the appropriation for the resources is spent on acquiring e-book and e-journal packages and document databases as well as for other electronic resources to support the research and the studying in the university.
Information Resources Policy of the Turku University Library
The library’s task is to preserve and make available to the customers legal deposit copies of Finnish cultural materials and to acquire printed and electronic information resources. Increasingly important is the open access material i.e. published scientific material freely accessible for anyone. The library’s collections development is steered by the strategy of the University of Turku, the strategy-based yearly planning of the university services and the information policy alignments of the library.
Elateroidea, Derodontoidea, Bostrichoidea, Lymexyloidea, Cleroidea and Cucujoidea
17.05.2019
Support for entomology research with the Apollo eBook Collection from 2007-2012. Apollo Books is very well known publisher in systematic entomology, now Apollo's books can be found as part of Brill's publishing house. All books are in English.
Plenty of new databases acquired!
10.05.2019
The library has subscribed to as much as 75 new humanist and social sciences databases from ProQuest this spring. All the databases will be in use for at least three years. Part of the sum that has been invested in the subscription may be used yearly for buying the most used ones for perpetual use.
Documents on British Policy Overseas archive database
06.05.2019
Documents on British Policy Overseas archive database sheds light on Britain’s international relations and diplomacy throughout the twentieth century.
Negotiations with Taylor & Francis
National negotations with Taylor & Francis ended in 2018 without any new agreements. On this web page we will inform you about the ongoing negotiations between FinELib and the publisher and about the measures that will be taken both by other members of the FinELib by the University of Turku.
Library News in Brief 4/2019
30.04.2019
Library News in Brief brings you the latest news of the Library's work, new developments, acquisitions and services.