Keyword: tietoaineistot

Newspaper articles are important primary source material for researchers of a specific historical period or news coverage of various events. The library has acquired 14 ProQuest Historical Newspapers databases in 2019. These English-language newspaper collections allow researchers to digitally travel back through centuries across Europe, Asia and North America. Each issue includes the complete paper with articles, photos, cartoons, advertisements and obituaries and more. 
 

Queer History Month is organized second time in November 2019. Seta and Culture for All Service call on cultural and memory organizations to join. Turku University Library demonstrates two resources handling the subject.
 

Turku University Library acquires hundreds of individual printed and electronic books every year. There is also altogether a subscription to about 800 printed and electronic journals. However, the majority of the appropriation for the resources is spent on acquiring e-book and e-journal packages and document databases as well as for other electronic resources to support the research and the studying in the university.

The library offers dozens of trials of new resources every year. Test and effect - the collected feedback of the trials affects the acquisition decisions of the resources. You can find the trials on our web pages and we advertise them in social media. 

Wörterbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft (WSK) Online is a bilingual (German, English) online reference resource that covers many major areas of linguistic and communication sciences, such as cognitive grammar, language learning, language technology, text linguistics etc. 

When I click a link, some password is required or loads of errors jump out. Or I am not allowed to use the resource at all. Does it sound familiar?

The FinELib consortium’s negotiations with two major publishers, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, ended at the end of 2018 without reaching a new agreement. At the University of Turku, the publishers’ online journals can be used until the end of January, and FinELib and the Turku University Library aim to ensure the researchers, teachers, and students’ access to the articles also in the future.