Helka Tutorial How to Find Sources (5:25 min, Helsinki University Library 2021, CC BY)
How to Find Helsinki University Library e-Materials in Google Scholar – (0:57 min, Helsinki University Library 2021, CC BY)
Write the name of the book (or some words of it) and choose “Library Catalog".
You can also write names of the authors in order to refine the result.
In Helka basic search you can target your search to specific resource types. The default option is Library catalog (books, journals, databases, theses). You can also target your search to International articles or choose Everything (searches everything Helka contains).
You can choose how your query words appear in the search result.
You may also target the search to different fields: in the title, author/creator, subject, ISBN (for books) or ISSN (for journals and series) etc.
Helka is the starting point to find materials acquired by the library. You can find lots of international articles via Helka. You can easily check in Helka whether a certain article is available online or quickly find some articles on your topic. Search results may also include references to e-articles and e-books without access to full text (references to articles and e-books library has not bought). The International articles search includes most of the databases library has bought but not all. In many cases it is also useful to search in other databases available.
Search international articles in field specific and multidisciplinary databases especially when
You can find field specific and multidisciplinary databases
If you want to find Finnish articles, use the Finna portal.
If you want to search Finnish articles in medicine and nursing, use Medic database (available in University of Helsinki network).
When looking for materials in humanities, search in the National Library's collections as well. In the National Library Search Service narrow the search results to materials available for home loan by selecting the collection Humaniora.
You can refine the search results with various filters in the “Tweak your results” menu on the right.
The Advanced search offers more options to target your search and combine keywords.
A search string example (English and Finnish keywords, words are truncated with * mark)