Library in Brief
Turku University Library is the largest academic library in Southwest Finland and it is open to all.
Key figures 2019
Library use
Customer service
- Library visits 663 612
- Active users / borrowers 15 600
- loans and renewals 1 224 371
- Inter-library loans (given and received)1 688
Use of electronic material
- Retrieved / viewed dokuments 4 310 674
Web visits
- Information retrieval from library catalogue 1 599 769
- Website visits 483 911
- Visits at Research Guides- service 544 978
Collections
- E-books 732 287 (titles)
- E-journals 45 623 (titles)
- Printed books 1 588 181 (titles)
- Printed journals 31 677 (titles)
- Ephemera material 4 281 947 items
- Maps 16 997 items
User training
- 998 hours/year
- 7999 attendees
Publishing support
University of Turku research publications 6190 (source: Current Research Information System)
- of which 5900 reported to Ministry of Education and Culture (source: Vipunen, Education Statistics Finland)
- 159 dissertations
Open access publications 3040
- 52% of the reported publications are open access
- Open access publication channel 1884 / 32 %
- Hybrid publication channel 444 / 8%
- Parallel publishing in non-open publication channel 712 / 12 % ( (source: Data Warehouse)
- 1485 thesis in UTUthesis, 856 of which 826 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.