Library in Brief

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

• 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

• 433,5 hours
• attendees 8 644

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 31.12.2023

• Employees 72
• Working years 67,92

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

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 €