2. Terkko in brief
Meilahti Campus Library Terkko
• Founded 1965, Independent institute of the University of
Helsinki
• Opened to public 2.1.1966 on the university hospital premises
• New library building 1998
Part of the Medical Faculty 1999 – 2009
Part of the Helsinki University Library (Independent institute of
the University of Helsinki ) 2010 ->
Research library of the medical faculty in the
University of Helsinki
Research library of the Helsinki University Hospital
WHO Information Service Centre in Finland
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3. Meilahti Campus Library TERKKO
Main library, Haartmaninkatu 4, 00290 Helsinki
5 branch libraries located at the medical faculty´s
institutions and HUCH´s clinics (University
Hospitals in the Helsinki Area)
Personnel (the main library and the branch libraries
altogether)
• 32 officers
(4 part-time workers)
• 42,3 man-years in all
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4. Open scientific library
Terkko´s main task is to serve the personnel and
students of the University of Helsinki and Helsinki
University Central Hospital (HUCH)
However the library services are available to all those
who need medical and health information.
Available to all visitors:
• Local collections of printed materials
• Lending services with Helka library card
• All electronic resources and services on the library
premises (´walk in use´of the library computers)
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5. Information resources
Electronic resources
• Essential medical databases (Vertex)
• Electronic fulltext journals (JournalNavigator) c.11.000
• Electronic books (BookNavigator)
• Personalized web services (MyTerkko), current awareness
services (FeedNavigator) and tools for reference
management
Local library resources – printed collections (2009)
• Medical journals 4000 titles, 90.000 annual volumes
• Monographs 60.000 volumes, n. 49.000 titles
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6. Acquisition of the resources 2009
Electronic journals 520,3 *
E-books and databases 38,3
558,6
* incl. Elsevier-funding 241.700 €
Printed journals 188,2
Monographs 25,9
214,1
Acquisition in all 772.682 €
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7. Services
Customer services
Lending service
Interlibrary loans and document delivery service
Discipline-specific services
Information service
• Information retrievals, user education, guidance, indexing
Collections
WHO Information Service Centre
Web services
• Discipline-specific web services, developing new digital information services
• Communications
Administration services
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8. Discipline-specific web services
developed in Terkko
Medic – Finnish medicine and health sciences database
MyTerkko – Personalized startpage for medical and health
professionals
FeedNavigator - Current awareness service
DiKK – Digital course library for students
Vertex – An integrated medical information service
Scholar Chart - Lists Finnish medical scholars articles in
real time
Top Cited Articles @UH – Lists top cited articles of the
researchers of Helsinki University
Support services for researchers and students:
collaboration tool Groups and Portti-services
Mobile services
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9. Use of the electronic services 2009
Terkko web sites 2 291 473 page views
Unique visits 697 039
Average visits per day 1900
Top pages visited (besides the homepage):
(unique visits)
• Medic 98190
• FeedNavigator 65 569
• Digital Course Library 55 325
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10. Funding 2009
Staff expenses 1.752.600 €
- Budget funds 1.522,621€
- other funding sources 229.979 €
• Acquisition of materials 530.900 €
Rents for premises 141.900 €
Information technology and communications 5.300 €
Other expenses 114.700 €
Total funding 2.563.800 €
+ Extra funding for Elsevier 241.700 €
(Faculty and HUCH)
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