Library services during coronavirus

The library facilities and customer service will close on Friday at 16.00.

Saturday 31.10. Linna silent reading room and Arvo learning center are closed for All Saints' Day.

According to the general guidelines of the University community, the facilities are available in accordance with the access rights on weekdays from 8.00 to 19.00. Library working spaces in Linna reading room and Arvo learning centre will be open from Mon to Sat until 22.00. 

To minimize the risk of infection and to identify potential chains of infection, staff and students will have access to campus and library facilities with their key card.

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.

All premises continue to comply with the applicable safety instructions regarding safety intervals and hygiene instructions. We ask our customers to follow the above-mentioned safety instructions on the library premises.

Library premises 

Mon-Fri 8.00 – 19.00

Customer Service 

Mon-Fri 10.00 – 16.00

TAMK Mediapolis unit

Open with Mediapolis access card according to TAMK access policy. Customer service Tue and Thu 10.00 – 14.00, if needed you can contact us by tel. 040 801 6296.

Chat service

Open Mon-Fri from 9 to 15. 

Linna reading room and Arvo learning centre are open until 22.00 from Mon to Sat.  

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. (With an access card, you can get to the pick-up service point from 8 to 19.)

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

• We ask our customers to use the borrowing and returning self service machines in all our locations for returning and borrowing. Our return boxes are also at your disposal.
• During limited service, our customer service desks do not accept returns or borrow books to minimize social contact.
• Our customer service focuses on serving you in all other matters related to the use of the library and information retrieval issues.
• In customer service situations, we ask you to pay attention to safety distances for other customers and our staff.
• The number of customer workstations on the library's premises has been reduced by about half so that we can implement the necessary safety distances in our customer premises. Please keep this in mind when planning to work longer on our premises.
• Hand disinfectants are available at the library's customer services, and you can wash your hands in our toilets.
• Please follow the necessary safety instructions and good epidemic hygiene on the library premises.

he 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 TAMK Main campus.

Interlibrary service

• From 10.8. on our interlibrary services are available for members of University community who have access to campuses to pick up the materials from the service desk.
  • Unfortunately we cannot provide interlibrary services for non-university customers at the moment.
• Our interlibrary services deliver materials for other libraries but there may be some delay in delivery.

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.

Now you can order normally borrowed 14-day and 28-day loans only with this order form. The form is now for external customers only, all members of the university community make reservations normally 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. (With an access card, you can get to the pick-up service point from 8 to 19.)

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 TAMK Main campus.

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:

Opinnäytteiden palauttaminen / Submitting thesis  

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

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