Library in Brief
Turku University Library is the largest academic library in Southwest Finland and it is open to all.
Key figures 2018
Library use
Customer service
- Library visits 569 620
- Active users / borrowers 15 5010
- loans and renewals 1 525 430
- Inter-library loans (given and received) 1 770
Use of electronic material
- Retrieved / viewed dokuments 4 552 610
Web visits
- Information retrieval from library catalogue 1 482 700
- Website visits 1 080 242
- Visits at Research Guides- service 553 600
Collections
- E-books 552 122 (titles)
- E-journals 29 834 (titles)
- Printed books 1 320 097 (titles)
- Printed journals 34 064 (titles)
- Ephemera material 4 281 947 items
- Maps 16 410 items
User training
- 982 hours/year
- 8166 attendees
Publishing support
University of Turku research publications 6020 (source: Current Research Information System)
- of which 5680 reported to Ministry of Education and Culture (source: Vipunen, Education Statistics Finland)
- 165 dissertations, of which 163 are open access
Open access publications 2710
- 48% of the reported publications are open access
- Open access publication channel 1780 / 31%
- Hybrid publication channel 330 / 6%
- Parallel publishing in non-open publication channel 610 / 11% (source: Data Warehouse)
- 1240 thesis in UTUthesis, 856 of which 856 are open access
Staff 31.12.2017
- Permanent: 64 employees (84,2 %)
- Fixed-term: 12 employees (15,8 %)
- Total: 76 employees
Working years 2017
- Permanent: 61,7 (85,6 %)
- Fixed-term: 10,4 (14,4 %)
- Total: 72,1
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 7 faculties and 5 independent units. There are 20,000 students and 3,400 staff members.