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DATABASES (in alphabetical order)  
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Aleksi - available on the Library's Internet computers
References to articles in 290 Finnish magazines and 15 Finnish newspapers. Magazine article references can be found since 1982 and newspaper article references since 1996.

Arto - free access on the Internet
References to articles in Finnish periodicals.

Building Information - available on the Library's Internet computers
Ratu Net - information on construction planning
RT Net - instructions on the phases of a building project
SIT Net - information on interior design
RT Tarviketieto Net - information on building and interior design products

Digital Archive of Finnish Folk Tunes - free access on the Internet

Digital Collections of the National Library - free access on the Internet
Digitized newspapers, periodicals and books in the collections of the National Library

Doria - free access on the Internet
Multi-institutional repository maintained by the National Library of Finland.

ECCO - Eighteenth Century Collections Online - available on the Library's Internet computers
Digitized English books from the 18th century.

Educator's Reference Desk  - free access on the Internet
Online education information.

EEBO - Early English Books Online  - available on the Library's Internet computers
Digitized English literature from 1473 to 1700.

Elektra - available on the Library's Internet computers
Finnish scientific journals and theses. The database contains full- text journal articles and theses in history. It can be accessed via the Arto reference database.

ePress - available on the Library's Internet computers
Finnish newspapers. ePress provides full texts of the newspapers.

Eur-Lex - free access on the Internet
European Union Law: treaties, international agreements, legislation in force, preparatory acts, case-law, Parliamentary questions. The Official Journal of the European Union can be accessed via the Eur-Lex website.

Fennica - free access on the Internet
The Finnish National Bibliography: references to books, serials, maps, audio-visual material and computer records published in Finland. It also includes material published outside of Finland if the author is Finnish or the publication deals with Finland.

Find articles - free access on the Internet
Articles in English since 1998. Some of the articles can be read free of charge.

Finlex - Finnish legislation - free access on the Internet
Finnish acts and decrees, case-law, secondary legislation, international treaties, Government bills

Finnish Literature in Translation - free access on the Internet
Reference information on Finnish literature in translation

Fono - free access on the Internet
Database of recordings

Helecon Online Databases - available on the Library's Internet computers
Helecon Classic: Finnish economics and business bibliography 1945-1979. The database contains information about books, articles and master's theses on economics and business completed at Finnish Universities from 1945 to 1979.
Helecon Mix
(FINP + THES + BILD) A union database on economics and business: new books and research reports at the Aalto University Library, master's theses at the Aalto University School of Economics, selected references to Finnish economics and business journal articles.
Helecon Finp: references to Finnish journal articles.
Helecon Bild: references to books and research reports with tables of contents.
Helecon Thes: School of Economics theses with tables of contents

Helsingin Sanomat: archive - available on the Library's Internet computers
Full-text articles of the Helsingin Sanomat since 1990.

Kontentti - free access on the Internet
Index to articles of historical Finnish journals

 
Link to World Poetry - free access on the Internet
A reference database on translated poetry produced by the Lahti City Library. The database contains more than 20 000 references to world poetry from the ancient times to the present. The database also has thousands of links to poetry websites in different languages.

Linnea databases - free access on the Internet
Melinda - The Union Catalogue of Finnish University Libraries.
Arto - A reference database of Finnish articles.
Viola - The National Discography of Finland.

Lumme databases - free access on the Internet
Research, literature and image databases at the University of Helsinki.

Medic - available on the Library's Internet computers 
The Finnish Reference Database of health sciences. References to Finnish medical journal articles. In addition, the database contains references to Finnish medical dissertations and University and Research Institute reports. There is material since 1978. Some references also have links to full texts. Lehtisetti - Finnish full text publications in the health sciences

Melinda -  free access on the Internet
The Union Catalogue of Finnish University libraries.

Muisti - free access on the Internet
Historical Finnish material published in digitized form, including books, maps, pictures, manuscripts and printed music.


Naxos Music Library - access on the Internet with a Lahti City  library card
Access to almost 700 000 tracks (more than 48 000 CDs), mostly classical music but also some jazz and ethnic music.

Nosp - free access on the Internet
Nordic Union Catalogue of Serials. The database has not been updated since 2005.

Oxford Music Online - available on the Library's Internet computers
Music reference books in English: The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and The Oxford Companion to Music.

Periodicals Index Online - available on the Library's Internet computers
Index to millions of articles in the humanities, humanities and social sciences

PressDisplay - available on the Library's Internet computers
More than 800 newspapers from more than 70 countries in 39 languages. The newspapers contain all the material that can be found in the paper versions, including advertisements.

PubMed - free access on the Internet
References to biomedical literature, including the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system and preclinical sciences. Citations may have links to full-text content. PubMed is the free version of the Medline database.

Raita - free access on the Internet
Collection of digitized early Finnish sound recordings

Roma - free access on the Internet
References to fiction in Finnish. The database only contains books published before 1996, and it is not being updated.

Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy - free access on the Internet
Information on philosophers, concepts of philosophy and the philosophy of different periods. 

Statistical Yearbook of Finland - available on the Library's Internet computers
Essential statistics about Finland. In addition to new statistics the database contains statistical information from previous decades. An extensive international section provides comparisons to other countries.

Statistics Finland - free access on the Internet
Statfin - A free statistics database provided by Statistics Finland.
Other free databases by Statistics Finland on the Internet:
International statistics - Finland in figures
Statistics by topic - alphabet

  Viola - free access on the Internet
The National Discography of Finland and the National Bibliography of sheet music.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
DICTIONARIES,ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Mot:
English, German, Swedish,
Facta: an encyclopedia in Finnish

available on the Library's Internet computers

NEWSPAPERS ON THE INTERNET
ePress
Archive of the Helsingin Sanomat
PressDisplay 
available on the Library's Internet computers