Library services during coronavirus

According to the general guidelines of the Tampere University community, the premises and customer service of all the library units will be closed according to the current guidelines until 31.7.2021. The closure of the premises also applies to the reading rooms and work areas of all units.

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

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.

The pick-up service point of Linna and TAMK Main campus are open from 1.3.2021 onwards Mon-Fri from 8 to 18.

Only the Hervanta pick-up service point is open to all customers (including customers outside the University community without a key card) Mon-Fri from 8:00 to 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. 

Ordering Material

Begining from 1.2.2021 you can make a reservation for the 14-day and 28-day loan period books on the shelf yourself directly in the Andor search service.

Pick-up points

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.

The pick-up service point of Linna and TAMK Main campus are open from 1.3.2021 onwards Mon-Fri from 8 to 18.

Only the Hervanta pick-up service point is open to all customers (including customers outside the University community without a key card) Mon-Fri from 8:00 to 16:00.

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.

Returning

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. 

When the library's units are closed, it is possible to submit a request for a Library card on the helpdesk.tuni.fi service portal. The service has already been in use for students with a student card and staff, but now those students in the University community who do not have a student card can also order a Library card. A Library card is required to be able to use material pick-up service points during the pandemic.

• If you have a student card or you are waiting for it, 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 or order a library card button under the library services section.
• If you do not have a stundet card, in https://helpdesk.tuni.fi/ service portal you can order a separate Library card for yourself. Once you have logged in to the service with your tuni-ID, the activate or order a library card button can be found under the library services section. We will deliver the card by post to your student register address.   
• The library card activation request also works for staff. Staff can order a library card for themselves at https://helpdesk.tuni.fi/. You can find the order a library card button in the Library Services section. The library card is delivered to the subscriber's internal postal address.

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.

Begining from 1.2.2021 you can make a reservation for the 14-day and 28-day loan period books on the shelf yourself directly in the Andor search service.

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. (Service hours are the same for all customers)

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. 

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.

Chat service

Open online on our webpages Mon-Fri from 9 to 15. 

• 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 Tampere University https://libguides.tuni.fi/asiaportalresources  
• Duodecim Oppiportti https://libguides.tuni.fi/oppiportti Corona-related training materials (in Finnish only). 
• Ebsco Covid-19 portals contain both open access and licensed resources, customized information search terms and instructions for information retrieval. https://covid-19.ebscomedical.com/research and https://research.ebscomedical.com/  
• JSTOR https://libguides.tuni.fi/jstor-arts-sciences has expanded access for subscribers to certain new collections. Some of JSTOR's e-resources are also freely available to all. Access to these e-resources is until 30 June 2021. More information on which materials can be accessed here. 
• Kanopy   removes some of the restrictions on concurrent users. To use Kanopy, you must create a custom ID. The Great Courses collection is available to partnering colleges and universities. https://libguides.tuni.fi/kanopy  
• LitCovid provides a central access corona related articles in PubMed. The articles are updated daily and are further categorised by different research topics and geographic locations for improved access. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/  

Materials open to all  

• 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  
• British Medical Journal (BMJ)’s Coronavirus Hub is updated daily. https://www.bmj.com/coronavirus  
• Brill Covid-19 collection https://www2.brill.com/COVID-19_Collection . Freely accessible until April 30, 2021. 
• Cochrane has opened its vast corona related resources for all users. You can also find several special collections, e.g. Evidence relevant to critical care, Optimizing health in the home workspace, and Support for wellbeing in the healthcare workforce. https://www.cochrane.org/our-evidence/coronavirus-covid-19-resources  
• 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  
• Emerald Open Research coronavirus collection offers over 20 articles free for you to access https://emeraldopenresearch.com/collections/coronavirus 
• Guilford Press offers access to 9 journals including psychology, psychiatry and mental health until 30th 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? 
• JoVE Coronavirus Free Access Resource Center provides access to short educational videos, e.g. Corona Specific Protocols and General Virus Protocols. The resources are available for the time being. https://www.jove.com/coronavirusresource
• New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) has opened its corona related articles for all. https://www.nejm.org/coronavirus  
• 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  https://epubs.siam.org/page/EpidemiologyCollection  
• Springer Nature COVID-19 research papers and articles https://www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/campaigns/coronavirus 
• Taylor & Francis COVID19 material from different disciplines https://taylorandfrancis.com/coronavirus/  
• The Lancet’s Coronavirus Resource Centre brings together coronavirus content from across the Lancet journals as it is published. The contents are free to access. https://www.thelancet.com/coronavirus  
• Wolters Kluwer has made its corona related resources available for all, including selected sections of UpToDate and Lexicomp. https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/know/coronavirus-resources  

The material list is updated regularly. More information:  hankinta.kirjasto [at] tuni.fi ">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.