The Helsinki University Library offers unrestricted access to the sources of scientific knowledge.

New fees for the Helsinki University Library

CIRCULATION
€, vat 0%
Reservation fee for textbooks*
1,00
Fee for reservation that is not picked up
2,00
   
Overdue fines:  
28 day loans
0,30, max 4,20 / item
7 day, 14 day and 28 day textbooks
0,70, max 9,80 / item
Night-and short loans
2,00, max 28,00 / item
   
Collection about three months after the due date
collection agency fees
Replacement for lost library card
5,00
 
Compensation for lost or damaged items
minimum 80 €
* For non-textbooks reservations are free

 

SUPPLIES AND OTHER LOCAL SERVICES
Transparency for copy machine
1,00
Reimbursement for lost key
80 € or as invoiced
Cloth bag
1,00
Fax
5,00

Copy Card prices determined by Yliopistopaino (Helsinki University Print).
Prices for withdrawn books, course handouts, reproductions of qualification papers, publications,
coffee machine products, spaces to let etc. varies in different libraries.

INTERLIBRARY LOANS
Customer category 1,
€, vat 0%
Customer category 2,
€, vat 0%
Loans, microfiche and films
Copies from the collection of HULib sent to Finland
7,00
10,00
Copies from the collection of HULib sent abroad*
10,00
25,00
From Finland (incl. National Repository Library)* and Nordic countries from abroad
10,00
15,00
From Finland (incl. National Repository Library)* and Nordic countries from abroad
25,00 or as invoiced
50,00 or as invoiced
 
Copy per article    
From the collections of HULib to Finland (normal delivery)
7,00
12,00
   
Expedited delivery
14,00
25,00
From the collections of HULib to abroad (normal delivery)
10,00
15,00
   
From Finland (incl. National Repository Library)* (normal delivery)
12,00
20,00
From abroad (ml Nordic countries) with normal delivery
15,00 or as invoiced*
20,00 or as invoiced*
Expedited delivery from Finland and abroad
25,00 or as invoiced*
45,00or as invoiced*
Extensive commissions
(search and localisation over 30 min)
40,00 / order
60,00 / order


Customer category 1: HU units, staff, students, graduate students, HUCH and HUCH staff, private
persons, state, municipal and state-aided libraries etc.
Customer category 2: Companies

Expedited delivery not always available.
*) According to the principle of reciprocity loans are free to Baltic and other Nordic countries.
*) Loans and copies from the National Repository Library are free for UH and HUCH if picked up in the library or sent by internal mail.
*) If the prices of the lending library causes the costs to diverge significantly from our prices, the actual price must be paid by the customer.
The British Library, copies of American theses and other special cases according to invoice.


OTHER LIBRARY SERVICES
Customer category 1,
€, vat 0%
Customer
category 2,
€, vat 0%
Individual instruction in information seeking (by appointment)
-
50,00
Information retrieval / subject / hour
40,00 and data bank costs
50,00 and data bank costs
Reference analysis (bibliometric analysis) / search starting at
70,00
80,00
Medic-search
15,00
15,00
Access to the Medic search interface, contract depending on number of users / year
1260,00-2310,00
1260,00-2310,00
Table of Contents Service / year
115,00
-
Table of Contents Summary / year
100,00
115,00
Alert Service / year / subject
30,00
40,00
Open courses in information seeking / person / starting hour
-
20,00
Commissioned courses on information seeking for groups / hour
-
80,00 and rent for the facilities
Expert work, literature reviews, checking of reference lists etc. / hour
60,00
100,00


Customer category 1: UN units, staff, students and graduate students, HUCH units and staff.
Customer category 2: Other customers

*) Fees are agreed on with the customer, case by case.
*) The contents service is only available in the Law library at the City Centre Campus. Extensive expert and repository serviced are priced separately based on service contracts. All serviced mentioned in the price list may not be available in all campus libraries.