Library services during coronavirus

Material ordering and pick-up service points are again in action in Linna, Hervanta and TAMK Main Campus. According to the general guidelines of the Tampere University community, all library facilities and customer service will stay closed untill 7th of March 2021. At the same time, emergency arrangements are being prepared to continue if the epidemic so requires.

The pick-up service points of the material are open for customers in Tampere University Library units in Linna, Hervanta and TAMK Main campus.  

Pick-up service points are open Mon-Fri from 8.00 to 16.00. Access to the pick-up service points of the Linna and TAMK Main campus is only possible with access / key card. The pick-up service point at the Hervanta unit can be reached without a key card during opening hours Mon-Fri 8.00-16.00.

f the door does not open with your access card, contact the information on the campus in question to check / activate the access right.

You can get information about the campus access rights from this intranet page. Contact info on all campus info desks can be found from this link.

The library's pick-up service points are located in various locations in electronically controlled premises.

• Linna pick-up service point is located next to the main entrance of the Linna unint in the Idea space at the Kalevantie-side, which has an entrance from the outside through a separate door.
• Hervanta pick-up service point will continue its service on the 1st floor of the Kampusareena in Logos (A119).
• TAMK Main campus pick-up service point is located in the lobby in front of the library entrance in the G-wing on the Kuntokatu side.

All pick-up service points are open with access / key according Mon-Fri from 8.00 to 16.00. Only the Hervanta pick-up service point is also open to customers outside the university community without key card Mon-Fri 8.00-16.00. 

All Library customers are able to order / reserve books which are on shelf with this form. The material on loan will be reserved as usual in Andor.

The form can be used to order material on the shelf by any library customer who already has a valid library card and access rights to campus premises. Reservations of the material on loan are still being made in Andor. 

For external customers, it is only possible to order all the material at the pick-up service point of the Hervanta unit and only with the order form.

For external customers, it is only possible to order all the material at the collection point of the Hervanta office and only with the order form.

The material can only be picked up by the person who reserved the material with their access / key card, and a valid library card is required for borrowing. Staying unnecessary at the pick-up service points is not allowed!

• Follow the safety guidelines indoors and follow the restrictions on number of persons in limited indoors space. No unnecessarily multiple people in the same space.
• Transactions at the pick-up service point must be waited in line outside the premises, observing the safety guidelines, if there are already multiple people in the premises.
• Hand desinfection is available at pick-up service points - use it!
• If you have any respiratory symptoms or feel ill, do not pick up the book yourself indoors.

The return boxes of the library's units are open.  

The locations of the return boxes / return hatches at each location are:

• Linna: beside the main entrance of Linna building on Kalevantie street side
• Arvo: near the front door of Arvo building, Teiskontie street side
• Hervanta: in the elevator lobby on the 1st floor of Kampusareena. When the building is closed, you can leave your loans in a box labelled "Library returns" outside the entrance on the Main Building side. 
• TAMK Main campus: When the building is closed, you can leave your loans in the book return box at the main entrance of the campus, Teiskontie street side. 
• TAMK Mediapolis: return books to other Tampere University Library units. 

Despite the closure of the library's premises, all the library's online services will continue as normal.

Chat service

Open Mon-Fri from 9 to 15. 

Interlibrary service

• Interlibrary services do not deliver interlibrary loans from other libraries. Articles are delivered only for staff of the University community and PSHP.
• Please, make your request with this form.
• Interlibrary services deliver only article copies from electronic journals for other libraries.

While all the library facilities are closed, the library will offer pop-up service to customers of the Tampere University community in January for the purpose of obtaining a library card. In addition, the helpdesk.tuni.fi service portal now has the option to ask for the activation of your library card. A library card is mandatory in order to be able to use the library pick-up service points during the epidemic.

If you have a student card then in the https://helpdesk.tuni.fi/ service portal, you can ask for the activation of your library card by logging in to the service with your tuni-ID. You can find the activate student card as a library card button under the library services section. Due to service congestion, activation may take up to 5 business days.

The library card activation request is currently working for students, the service for staff will be coming soon.

If you do not have a student card the library card can be made at a pop-up service for a person whose information can be found in the University community register and who has the necessary access rights inside the campus units. 

If the door does not open with your access card, contact the information on the campus in question to check / activate the access right. 

You can get information about the campus access rights from this intranet page. Contact info on all campus info desks can be found from this link. 

Library pop-up points serve you beginning on Fri 15th of January as follows: 

• Linna
  • location: K126, access from the Pinninkatu side
  • service hours: Mon 14-15, Wed 9-10, Fri 14-15
• TAMK Main campus
  • location: B1-37 (in front of IT-Helpdesk)
  • service hours: Mon 14-15, Wed 9-10, Fri 14-15

When you come to the pop-up service, be sure to bring a photo ID!

It is not possible to take care of other library matters with pop-up service points, only new library cards are made with the points!

• Don’t come inside campuses if you feel a little sick!
• Follow hygiene and safety rules and be sure to keep safety distances with other students and staff.
• There is a strong recommendation for the use of a face mask indoors on campuses.

The Library's services have returned from the Christmas break and the material ordering and pick-up service points are again in action in Linna, Hervanta and TAMK Main Campus. According to the general guidelines of the Tampere University community, all library facilities and customer service will stay closed untill 7th of March 2021. At the same time, emergency arrangements are being prepared to continue if the epidemic so requires.

It is not possible for customers outside the University community to enter the campuses and library units at this moment, nor can anyone enter the library units without the access card / key card.

For our non-university customers who do not have access to campuses, a pick-up service point for the ordered, loanable material is now available at the Hervanta unit, from where the ordered material can be picked up without a key card.

• An external customer must already have customer information and a working library card already in the library system, because at the moment we are not able to make new customers for external persons due to the closure of campuses.

You can order normally borrowed 14-day and 28-day loans on shelf only with this order form. The material which is on loan can still be reserved in Andor.

In Hervanta, the reservation pick-up service point will also serve our external customers in the Logos (A119) room on the 1st floor of the Kampusareena. 

Hervanta's pick-up service point

For external customers is open on weekdays Mon-Fri from 8 to 16.

Tampere University Library Hervanta unit address is Korkeakoulunkatu 7, 33720 Tampere.

The return boxes of the library's units are open. We recommend that you return the material you borrowed to the unit where the material originated. The locations of the return boxes / return hatches at each location are:

• Linna: beside the main entrance of Linna building on Kalevantie street side
• Arvo: near the front door of Arvo building, Teiskontie street side
• Hervanta: in the elevator lobby on the 1st floor of Kampusareena. When the building is closed, you can leave your loans in a box labelled "Library returns" outside the entrance on the Main Building side. 
• TAMK Main campus: When the building is closed, you can leave your loans in the book return box at the main entrance of the campus, Teiskontie street side.
• TAMK Music Academy: return books to TAMK Main campus. 
• TAMK Mediapolis: return books to other Tampere University Library units.

Despite the exceptions, the library's online services operate normally. 

• Our extensive e-material collection, which you can find from our Databases list
• Andor search finds all our material, both electronic and printed
• Our entire online collection is available for the entire Tampere Universities community
• Remote use access to e-resources outside the Tampere University or the University of Applied Sciences by HAKA login> select Tampere Universities as your home organization> use your Tuni ID
• Our Chat Services at the bottom right of our web pages will serve you from 9 am to 3 pm every weekday
• Contact our email address library [at] tuni.fi for targeted assistance with all your library transactions
• If necessary, you can also request that the material you have already reserved before coronavirus exceptios, which has already been arrived for pick up, be delivered from another location to Hervanta using the text / course book form
• Kampusareena is open on weekdays from 8 am to 4 pm, and students must enter the main door (south wall facing Konetalo). No access with key card through the doors.

Extended right to publishers' e-resources

• Asia Portal site, under New & Trial Resources, you will find archives, e-books, newspapers and magazines that have been opened for the University of Tampere https://libguides.tuni.fi/asiaportalresources 
• Duodecim Oppiportti https://libguides.tuni.fi/oppiportti there are corona-related training materials.
• JSTOR https://libguides.tuni.fi/jstor-arts-sciences has extended access to journals and e-books in all JSTOR collections to subscribers to its collections. Access to all materials is until 31.12.2020, except e-books until 30.6.2020.
• Kanopy https://libguides.tuni.fi/kanopy  removes some of the restrictions on concurrent users. To use Kanopy, you must create a custom ID.
• Springer Nature https://libguides.tuni.fi/springerlink   Covid-materials and lists of free e-books can be found from this link https://www.springernature.com/gp/librarians/news-events/all-news-articles/industry-news-initiatives/free-access-to-textbooks-for-institutions-affected-by-coronaviru/17855960

Materials open to all by publishers

• Australian National University open materials are multidisciplinary and focus on Australian and Oceanian as well as indigenous research. Materials can be downloaded directly from the ANU website: http://press.anu.edu.au/ 
• Berghahn has opened access to all its publications. Berghahn publishes journals in the social and humanities fields. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/page/journals 
• Brill e-books for example. epidemics and their prevention, as well as distance learning: https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_Collection 
• Elsevier Novel Coronavirus Information Center ScienceDirect has opened about 21,000 articles, an opportunity also for data mining. The service is open as long as there is a need for the material. https://www.elsevier.com/connect/coronavirus-information-center 
• Guilford Press offers access to 9 journals including psychology, psychiatry and mental health until 30^th of September: https://guilfordjournals.com/
• IEEE Xplore has opened free access to research articles and standards on Covid19 for all.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searchresult.jsp?
• Ohio State University Press the service has 699 e-books in free use for a few months: https://kb.osu.edu/handle/1811/131 
• OpenEdition Books ja OpenEdition Journals has opened more collections and materials for open use during the pandemic: https://oep.hypotheses.org/2515 
• Oxford University Press has opened several services for open access. Some interfaces may require a separate login. https://global.oup.com/about/covid19 
• Project Muse collecting open material from several publishers in the list, a comprehensive list by publisher can be found on the page: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/resources/freeresourcescovid19/ 
• ProQuest Coronavirus Research Database https://search.proquest.com/coronavirus/ 
• Royal Society Publishing e-journals from different fields. https://royalsociety.org/journals/#listing  
  • The publisher also has a separate collection of coronavirus and pandemic research articles: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/topic/special-collections/novel-coronavirus-outbreak 
• SIAM Epidemiology Collection freely available until the end of 2020: https://epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection 
• Taylor & Francis COVID19 material from different disciplines https://taylorandfrancis.com/coronavirus/ 

The material list is updated and maintained at all times. More information: hankinta.kirjasto [at] tuni.fi 

Teaching, guidance and training provided by the library are being held remotely. Due to this situation, we are not cancelling anything, but are transferring all activities online and behind remote connections.

Publishing services and library research support services are available online as usual.

Submitting printed TAMK thesis, see instructions:

Saving the thesis to Theseus (https://submissions.theseus.fi/) works normally.

Proposals can be made normally. Link to the Acquisition form.