Library in Brief

Turku University Library is the largest academic library in Southwest Finland and it is open to all.

Key figures 2023

Library use

Users

  • Library visits 353 443
  • Active users / borrowers 12 713
  • New customers 10 969
  • Registrated users / borrowers 62 683

Loans

  • Loans 80 697
  • Renewals 123 774
  • Inter-library loans (given and received) 1 502 

Electronic Services

  • Collection database Volter
    • Viewed records 1 455 833
    • Number of retrievals 2 121 104
    • Number of contacts 1 646 278
  • Usage of electronic resources 12 024 714
Collections
  • E-books 1 005 525 titles
  • E-periodicals 112 389 titles
  • Printed books 1 122 435 titles
  • Printed periodicals 32 936 titles
  • Ephemera material 4 508 868 items
  • Maps 18 756 items 
  • Music materials 33 242 tiles
  • Audiovisual materials 14 591 items
  • Patent publications 136 807 items
  • Archive materials 22 archive sources or creators

Cataloguing

  • Number of records 1 523 372
  • Added records 16 223
  • Cataloguing to other database (2 databases) 571

 

User training
  • 433,5 hours
  • attendees 8 644
Publishing support

University of Turku research publications 6 654 (source: Data Warehouse)

  • of which 6 293 reported to Ministry of Education and Culture (source: Data Warehouse)
  • 201 dissertations

73 % of the reported publications are open access:

  • in open access publication channel 2 420 (38,5 %)
  • in hybrid publication channel 1 757 (27,9 %)
  • parallel publishing in non-open publication channel (Green OA) 426 (6,8 %) 

55 % (3487) of reported publications parallel published.

The agreements signed by the library enabled researchers to open 606 articles free of charge.

1 865 thesis in UTUthesis of which open access 1 143.

University of Turku dissertations downloaded from UTUPub 374 437 times.

Staff

Staff 31.12.2023

  • Employees 72
  • Working years 67,92
Units, facilities and opening hours

Units

  • In Turku 6
  • In Rauma 1
  • In Raisio 1
  • Storage facilities 2 
  • Administrative units 1 

Library opening hours

  • 422 hours open during week
  • 1 880 days open during statistical period

Library facilities

  • 19 139 total floor area in square metres

 

Finances

Operating costs total 11 768 676 €

  • Staff costs 3 557 224 €
  • Library materials costs 4 167 710 € 
    • Printed material 193 481 € 
      • periodicals 56 350 €
      • monographs 137 131 €
    • Electronic material 3 973 244 €
    • Other material  985 €
  • Space costs or calculated space costs 3 087 135 €
  • Other costs 956 608 €

 Library financing total 11 982 815 €

The University of Turku key facts and figures

The University of Turku has 8 faculties and 5 independent units. 

Key figures 2023

  • Number of staff (31.12.2023) 3 824
  • Staff FTE 3 536,6
  • Number of students (education leading to a degree) 17 629
  • Admissions quota 2 363
  • Total costs 323 306 678 €

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