Area and Cultural Studies: North American Studies : Books

Area and Cultural Studies: Latin American and North American Studies.Resources available via the Helsinki University Library: articles, journals, e-books, books, databases and other digital collections.

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HELDA OPEN BOOKS (HOB) - E-Books

Helda Open Books Collection presents a high quality selection of open monographs and edited books by researchers at the University of Helsinki.

Books in this collections receive a DOI identifier increasing their international visibility. In addition, they are published under a Creative Commons license.

New Books at the Library (selection)

E-Books:

Printed Books:

Expanded collections of new books on trial

NEWS!

The library has acquired an expanded collection of new literature from various publishers for trial use. These trial collections will be available until October 31, 2025.

The most used and requested books will be permanently added to the library's collections after the trial period.

You can find the books on trial in the Helka database and browse the books on the platforms of the participating publishers:

Elsevier

Sage

Taylor & Francis

JSTOR

In Helka, the book details will indicate if the book is on trial. If you need a book for teaching or research in future, please make a purchase request to the library.

Link to the purchase request in Helka

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More information about  the above Collections on Trial :

  • Elsevier Collection on trial contains books mainly from the fields of Life Sciences and
    Health Sciences (about 2500 titles).
  • Sage on trial includes the collection "Sage Reference and Academic Books Complete" (about 6000 titles)
  • Taylor and Francis on trial concentrates mainly on books in the  Humanities and Social Sciences (about 12 500 titles published between years 2022-2025).
  • JSTOR includes around 76 000 titles published up until the year 2021.

All books can be found  catalogued in the Helka library database.

 

Collections in Print

North American Studies - Pohjois-Amerikan tutkimus (PAM) printed books are located in Kaisa House's floor 2(floor map) 

Call Numbers on the Helka database:

  • "Historia ja kulttuurien tutkimus PAM"

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Book Citation Index

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You may also be interested in...

  • English Studies Research Guide (includes E-books on

  - American Literature and Literary Studies

(click the "English Literature - United States" inside the box)

  - Reference Works on American Literature available at HULib.

  • See also other Humanities ResearchGuides published at the Helsinki University Library

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