Collections and materials 

The Library as a whole includes the reading room, distant and textbook collections, as well as the collections that belong to the department. Except for the department collections, the books are available for use by all Library clients. The books in the departments are meant only for research and instruction by the staff in the department concerned.

The Library database for Turku University is called Volter. Via Volter the client can search for information and availability of the books and journals belonging to the collections of Library. Reservations can also be made for books that are on loan, and personal loans can be renewed.

Reading room collection

Much-used books in the teaching at the university have been selected for the reading room collection. Of the subject areas in the business economics sciences, the most important include entrepreneurship, marketing and advertising, accounting and financing, management, logistics and human resource management. Of the subjects in the social sciences, those that are very important are economics, economic sociology, work, economic policy, taxation, corporate law and commerce.

Distant collection

Published series, statistics, a large number of annual volumes of journals, less-used books and the university’s theses have been placed in the distant collection. Over 80 per cent of all printed materials are found in the distant collection. You can make a loan request for materials there by filling in a materials request in the Volter database.

Textbook collection

Copies of the books listed in the study guide can be found in the textbook collection. They are a collection of their own and are located close to Customer Service. One copy of each text book is given for reading room and/or overnight-loan use.

Department collections

The printed information materials required by the departments are located in their own areas. They are mainly intended only for the use of the departments’ personnel, and are not given out on loan to others. You can get information on the books in the department collections via Volter – the name of the collection, where it is and this text: non-circulating.

Statistics

Statistics have been collected in both printed form and online.
Most of the statistical publications are in the distant collection, from which home loans are possible. Information about these statistics is found in the Volter database.

Dictionaries

Our dictionary section covers all languages included in Turku School of Economic's curricula and other languages as well. These dictionaries are in the reference library close to Customer Service. They can be given out on loan for reading room use as well as overnight and for the weekend. Online dictionaries are also in very much use.

Printed journals

Journals from the current year are found in the reading room balcony. Older versions can be found either from the reading room balcony, bound as yearly volumes, or from the distant collection. Information on the location of these publications can be seen in the Volter database in the journal data section. Journals are given out for 14 days loanperiod or for overnight and weekendloans.

The staff of Turku School of Economics can, if they wish, request circulation of journals ordered to the Library. The reading period for each circulated journal is two workdays.

Theses

Bachelor’s and master’s theses completed by students at the Turku School of Economics have been put into the distant collection. Theses can be obtained for reading in the reading room by making a request via the Volter database.

 

Online materials

As well as the printed collections, clients have access to a large number of online materials that have been obtained by the Library. Many of the materials have been obtained via FinELib, the National Electronic Library.

Books, scientific and other journals, reference works, dictionaries, library catalogues, portals and links, statistics, reference databases and company information are all found in the online materials.

Nelli-portal

Online materials can be found via the Nelli portal. Nelli is a national information search portal which offers the information searcher the possibility to use various online information sources via one gateway. More information on online materials and their content is available in the Nelli portal.

You can get familiar with the Nelli portal by means of the Nelli guide. Staff and students may participate in Nelli training.

Distant use

Distant use from outside the School’s online network is possible by logging into Nelli with a user ID and password given by Turku University (utu-username). Other clients can access the materials by coming to the Library. 

Rights of use

Rights of use controlled by agreements apply to the licensed, online materials obtained by the Library. Each producer or seller has his own licence terms.

What is normally allowed is browsing through the materials as well as their reasonable storage or printing. Materials may be used by Turku university and Turku School of Economics' students and staff as well as local clients who mainly come directly to the Library. Materials may be used for research, instruction and studying purposes. The use of materials for commercial purposes is forbidden.
The user has responsibility for following the agreements in use.
More information about rights of use can be found in Turku University Library's Rules and regulations netpage.