Congressional -database offers a unique possibility to get to know the history and activities of the Congress of the United States beginning from the times of George Washington in 1789 up to today. What was on the Congress agenda during the Carter Administration and what about during the Reagan Administration?
In the next few days the new PubMed interface will be the default interface for the Medline database; the old interface will vanish altogether soon after that. Now at the latest is the right time to learn the new and easier features of the new interface!
An historical overview of how criminal justice has changed in American and English law and the effect criminology has had in facilitating those changes.
Three databases including ego-documents, reflective writing and oral tradition in library collections: North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral histories; British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries; North American Women’s Letters and Diaries.
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’s task is to preserve and make available to the customers legal deposit copies of Finnish cultural materials and to acquire printed and electronic information resources. Increasingly important is the open access material i.e. published scientific material freely accessible for anyone. The library’s collections development is steered by the strategy of the University of Turku, the strategy-based yearly planning of the university services and the information policy alignments of the library.
Support for entomology research with the Apollo eBook Collection from 2007-2012. Apollo Books is very well known publisher in systematic entomology, now Apollo's books can be found as part of Brill's publishing house. All books are in English.