Library in Brief
Turku University Library is the largest academic library in Southwest Finland and it is open to all.
Key figures 20120
Library use
Customer service
- Library visits 303 414
- Active users / borrowers 12 853
- loans and renewals 363 909
- Inter-library loans (given and received) 1392
Use of electronic material
- Retrieved / viewed dokuments 4 978 291
Web visits
- Information retrieval from library catalogue 1 982 628
- Website visits 350 007
- Visits at Research Guides- service 497 336
Collections
- E-books 917 182 (titles)
- E-journals 43 407 (titles)
- Printed books 1 179 799 (titles)
- Printed journals 32 201 (titles)
- Ephemera material 4 417 287 items
- Maps 17 355 items
User training
- 875,5 hours/year
- 9559 attendees
Publishing support
University of Turku research publications 6132 (source: Current Research Information System)
- of which 6298 reported to Ministry of Education and Culture (source: Vipunen, Education Statistics Finland)
- 162 dissertations
Open access publications 3759
- 61% of the reported publications are open access
- Open access publication channel 2099 (34 %)
- Hybrid publication channel 896 (15 %)
- Parallel publishing in non-open publication channel 896 (15 %) (source: Data Warehouse)
- 1905 thesis in UTUthesis which1081 are open access
Staff 31.12.2020
- Permanent: 61 employess
- Fixed-term: 12 employees
- Total: 73 employees
Working years 2019
- Permanent: 59,96
- Fixed-term: 9,80
- Total: 69,76
Facilities
Units
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In Turku 6
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In Rauma 1
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In Raisio 1
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Storage facilities 2
The University of Turku key facts and figures
The University of Turku, established in 1920, has 8 faculties and 5 independent units. There are 20,000 students and 3,400 staff members.