English Literature:

English Language and Linguistics:

The E-books on the English Language and Linguistics found at the Helsinki University Library are catalogued in the Helka database, but you can also browse and search them via BookNavigator.

Have a look at our new e-books:

Have a look at our new e-books:

via BookNavigator.

The E-books offered by Helsinki University Library can be browsed and accessed either via the Helka database or via the BookNavigator.

       -  Shakespeare Studies

The Past Masters Database Includes:

Dictionaries offered by the Helsinki University Library (purchased)

Free Monolingual Dictionaries of English:

- More Dictionaries related to English on the Linguist's List

Reference Works:

Oxford Handbooks Online (OHO):

Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Oxford Reference Online (ORO):

Oxford Reference is the premier online reference product, spanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias.

Literature Online (LION):

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Linguistics  (the Link to the Resource via Helka) New, Sept.2020-

OpenBook publishers:

Open Book Publishers, founded in 2008, is already the biggest independent open access academic publisher of monographs in the UK and amongst the leaders in the English-speaking world. We are a not-for-profit Social Enterprise run by academics who are committed to making high-quality and prize-winning research available to all, and we are now the hub of choice for a rapidly increasing international network of scholars who believe that it is time for academic publishing to become fairer, faster and more accessible.

(VARIENG) at the University of Helsinki:

Knowledge  Unlatched (KU):

Through Knowledge Unlatched Project you can access the following e-books:
 

1. The Myth of Piers Plowman - Constructing a Medieval Literary Archive

2. Verse and Transmutation - A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry

3. The Emergence of Irish Gothic Fiction - Histories, Origins, Theories

4. Making and Unmaking in Early Modern English Drama - Spectators, Aesthetics and Incompletion

Helda Open Books (HOB):

Other HOB Books ...

Others:

Interlibrary Loans

If you need a book or an article not found at the University of Helsinki, you can ask Helsinki University Library to order it for you as an interlibrary loan.

• Order books or journals (interlibrary loan)   

Acquisition proposal

Alternatively, as a member of University of Helsinki community you can suggest new books  for the library's collections and make an acquisition  proposal.

• Acquisition proposal make a purchase suggestion (works only with the University of  Helsinki  credentials).

The Book Citation Index in Web of Science Core Collection is a bibliographic database that includes the published scholarly literature of  book chapters and books.

English Philology

• English Language Studies theses (from the years 1934 until 2015) i.e. Do call number search "Hc K4 Suljettu kokoelma Opinnäytteet HUM B-Dla" in the Helka database.
   
• English Literary Research theses (from the years 1935 until 2015) i.e. Do call number search "Hc K4 Suljettu kokoelma Opinnäytteet HUM B-Lla" in the Helka database.

Translation Studies

• English Translation Studies theses (from the years 1987 until 2015) i.e. Do call number search "Hc K4 Suljettu kokoelma Opinnäytteet HUM B-Dko" in the Helka database.

Ethos EThOS is the UK’s national thesis service which aims to maximise the visibility and availability of the UK’s doctoral research theses.

• Kaisa House's Call Numbers/ Classification Scheme.
• Printed books on the English Language and Linguistics; English Literary Research and History can be found at the Helsinki University Library's (Kaisa House's)   floor 5 and floor K3. 

• English Fiction can be found on floor K3 under the ground level (access only by elevator). On the Helka database, the Call Numbers for these  are:

•  Hc K3 Kaunokirjallisuus 12 D 1 (British and Irish fiction)

• Hc K3 Kaunokirjallisuus 12 D 2 (North American Fiction)

• Hc K3 Kaunokirjallisuus 12 D 3 (Fiction written in English in other countries i. e. in Australia, Africa, Asia)