The Nelli portal

The Nelli portal allows you to search many different databases through one easy to use web interface. You may search one database at a time or several databases simultaneously. Electronic journals and e-books are also available on Nelli. You can easily create a list of your favourite databases and searches on Nelli's My Space.

Nelli enables access to all the academic high quality electronic resources which Kuopio University Library subscribes to. There are about 120 databases, electronic books and dictionaries as well as about 14500 electronic journals on Nelli. Nelli also contains freely accessible academic resources, such as the PubMed database.

All Finnish universities have their own Nelli portals, the resources on them being specific to each university and for the exclusive use of staff and students of that university. So if you are on the staff of or a student at the University of Kuopio, you cannot access resources available on the University of Oulu Nelli portal, and vice versa. Persons outside Finnish universities may use Nelli, but they can search freely accessible resources only.

Login to Nelli

University of Kuopio students, researchers, staff:
1) Go to http://www.nelliportaali.fi/kuy.
2) Click "In English" on the Nelli top banner.
3) Click "Log In (University of Kuopio students, researchers, staff)."
4) Enter Username: your Hytti computer or Messi computer username and Password: your Hytti or Messi password.
5) Press "Log in" button.

Kuopio University Hospital staff:
1) Go to http://www.nelliportaali.fi/kuy.
2) Click "In English" on the Nelli top banner.
3) Click "Log In (Kuopio University Hospital staff)."
4) Enter Name: your Nelli username you received from Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library and Password: corresponding password. If you do not already have Nelli username and password, please contact Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library.
5) Select Institution: Kuopion yliopisto
6) Press "Login" button.

Main functions

QuickSearch
You may search preselected resources grouped by subject. Please note that these resource groups do not contain all the resources available on Nelli. More resources are available in the Find Database and MetaSearch functions.

Find Database
You can select relevant databases and other resources by title and by subject category, for example. Click the "magnifying glass" icon on the Database List, Actions column, to search a database through Nelli. Please note that not all databases are searchable this way. These databases may be searched using their own search forms, which are accessed by clicking the database names.

Find e-Journal
You may find academic e-journals by browsing, by title of journal, by subject categories, or by ISSN number.

MetaSearch
You may search several databases (6 at most) simultaneously. Please note that not all databases are searchable this way. These databases may be searched using their own search forms, which are accessed by clicking the database names.

My Space
After logging in to Nelli, you may create a list of your favourite resources and e-journals on My Space. You may also save your search queries (History) and search results (eShelf). Search queries may also be saved as Alert. The Alert query is executed automatically at regular intervals; you can choose the execution interval. Nelli sends you an e-mail when new references are found.

Nelli search forms

Search forms are used in Quick Search, Database List, and MetaSearch. All the forms are identical and have two search methods, Simple and Advanced. You can enter a single keyword or several keywords separated by spaces. If you entered several keywords, they all are present in search result (combined with Boolean "and" by default). If you want your keywords to be searched as a phrase, put quotation marks in the beginning and in the end of your phrase. It is possible to truncate a keyword using a question mark. For example, pharma? searches for all words beginning with the stem pharma. Advanced search lets you combine two keywords with the Boolean operators And, Or, or Without. The operator And forces both keywords to appear in the search result. The operator Or requires that either first or second keyword or both keywords are present in the search result. The operator Without removes the second keyword from the result.

Linking from search results to full text

Your Nelli search results are literature references in most cases. Please click SFX links in references to check availability of corresponding complete publications.

Exiting Nelli

Click "Log out" or "End Session" on the Nelli top banner, then shut down your web browser if you used a publicly accessible computer, such as in a library for example.

For more information

Please send your questions and comments to nelli@uku.fi. Good luck with your searching!