Databases

In addition to the library’s own Anders Web Library and printed collections, the library has a number of on-line databases, CD-ROMs in diskette- and net-format, as well as in the Internet. Some of the CD-ROM databases are also available for customers in the libraries’ workstations.  Most of the databases are so-called reference databases, i.e. they contain information on catalogue details, availability, and, sometimes, short resumes of books, articles and other materials, but not the actual contents, such as full texts of the articles. ALEKSI Aleksi contains references to articles published in 250 Finnish periodicals and chronicles as well as in 12 newspapers. Periodical articles date back to 1982, and newspaper articles to 1996. The database contains more than 200 000 references, and its annual accumulation is c.20 000 references.  Aleksi has a commercial WWW-connection (can be used at library's workstations). LINDA Linda is the research libraries’ joint LINNEA-catalogue. (LINNEA: the National information network for libraries in Finland) The Linda-database contains the Finnish Bibliography, and information on books, magazines and serials, maps, as well as AV-materials stored in the library databases of 22 institutes of higher education, the repository library, and the Parliament Library. Information on domestic materials is comprehensively recorded since the 1920s. Information on foreign books printed before 1980 is not comprehensive as yet. Information on magazines and serial publications begins, for the most part, from the 1970s. LINDA is also available in the Internet (can be used at library's workstations). LINDA does not contain information on a publication's availability. This has to be checked from each institution’s own database.  Further information on research and specialised libraries are to be found in the guide to the Scientific Libraries in Finland. FENNICA Fennica is the Finnish National Bibliography. Fennica offers a WWW-connection.  It contains information on Finnish publications, in Finnish, written by Finnish authors, and materials about Finland. The database covers information from 1910 (at the end of 1997 from 1828), and magazines from 1782. The database also contains 530 000 titles (January 1997), and its annual accumulation is c. 55 000 titles. It also contains advance information on forthcoming domestic publications.