Over the years, the library has received approximately eight shelf kilometres of ephemera thanks to the legal deposit law. Ephemera are everyday prints that are often only relevant for a short time. What ephemera tell us about ourselves and our times?
The Turku University Library has received Finnish posters through the legal deposit rights since 1919 to the present day. There are no statistics on the number of posters, but it is estimated that there are about 100,000 of them. The posters in the legal deposit collection are stored in the Newspaper and Ephemera Services at the library's Raisio unit. Digitized posters can be found in Finna.fi-database by searching for a picture or poster with the material type.
Library acquires e-books, including course books, in multiple ways and acquisition models. Some books are acquired permanently for the library's collections. However, some are later removed due to the acquisition method and the agreement terms between publishers and aggregators. Requests made by customers are taken into account, but availability and the price set their own limits also to the ways e-books can be used.
Electronic resources are flexible and offer different opportunities to use than printed materials. Remote access to electronic resources works with utu IDs via library’s Volter database. Although many ways to use are allowed, there are also restrictions. The use is regulated by license agreements between the university and the service provider.
There are several ways Turku University researchers can publish their research articles open access free of charge. Library information resources insights – session on Thursday 31.10. at 9.00 covers the various ways available for you to publish open access for free.
MOT Kielipalvelu® for students and staff at universities offers a high-quality selection of dictionaries, data secure machine translation and useful proofreading. As part of library’s weekly Thursday insights, we’ll offer you a 45 min webinar on MOT. Just click the link and join us!
Start your Thursday morning with the library's insights on information resources! The library has a comprehensive range of high-quality resources to support research, teaching and learning in the scientific community. During September and October 2024, we will offer information sessions on our selected resources and open access publishing. Join us and find out more!
Start your Thursday morning with the library's insights on information resources! The Library has a comprehensive range of high-quality resources to support research, teaching and learning in the scientific community. From January 2024, we will offer information sessions on our selected resources. Come and find out more!