Books

Josku

The books and printed journals in the Kuopio University Library and Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library can be found in the Josku database. There are also links to ebrary e-books. Josku doesn't include journal articles. Josku is freely accessible on the Internet.
Lost in Josku? (pdf)

Linda

The Linda database is the union catalogue of the Finnish University Libraries and some other major libraries, including the National Repository Library, the Library of the Parliament and the Library of Statistics. Linda also includes FENNICA, the Finnish National Bibliography. Linda is accessible on the University of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital local area networks. You may also search Linda from your home computer using remote access.
Libraries in Linda (in Finnish)

You can find keywords for searching Josku and Linda in the following thesauri:

General Finnish Thesaurus (Yleinen suomalainen asiasanasto, YSA)

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Electronic book collections

• ebrary Academic Complete
(more than 30,000 e-books from more than 200 publishers)
• FreeBooks4Doctors (more than 600 freely accessible medical e-books)
• Handbooks in Economics Series is published by Elsevier and includes several areas of economics.
• Lecture Notes in Computer Science (e-book series published by Springer-Verlag)
• National Academies Press is an American scientific publisher offering both printed and online books.
• On-Line Books Page lists over 35,000 freely accessible books on the Web.
• Project Runeberg publishes classic Nordic literature.

Reference books and dictionaries

• EDILEX contains Finnish laws and juridical information.
• Encyclopædia Britannica is one of the most comprehensive encyclopedias. It has been published since 1768.
• FINLEX contains Finnish laws and juridical information. It is available free-of-charge on the Internet.
• MOT Dictionaries
• MUISTI is the joint database of digitized national material of libraries, archives, and museums.
• Oxford English Dictionary is a comprehensive English dictionary.
• Statistical Yearbook of Finland contains basic statistical data about Finland.
• Valter is an online version of the glossaries compiled by the Finnish Government Terminology Service.

• More reference books are listed on the library QuickLinks

Subject-specific handbooks

• BNF for Children provides information about prescribing and administration of medicines to children.
• British National Formulary provides up-to-date guidance on prescribing, dispensing and administering medicines.
• Clarke's Analysis of Drugs and Poisons
• Dietary Supplements
• Farmakologia ja toksikologia is a well known textbook on pharmacology and toxicology in Finnish.
• Herbal Medicines
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy is a comprehensive medical reference book. 
• Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs
• Nutrition Care Manual
• Pharmaceutical Excipients
• Stockley's Drug Interactions
• Stockley's Interaction Alerts
• Thieme ElectronicBook Library contains about 40 medical handbooks.

Bookshops on the Internet

• Abebooks (out of stock and antiquarian books)
• Akateeminen kirjakauppa (Academic Bookshop, Finland)
• Amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble
• BookPlus
• Granum sells Finnish scientific literature
• Suomalainen kirjakauppa
• WHSmith