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The library's collections offer rich and versatile materials from the fields of arts and science in printed and electronic format.

Arts and information

Uniarts Helsinki library collections offer materials for different arts to support students, teachers, and researchers. Journals, books and audio-visual materials from visual arts, music and performing arts are available comprehensively. The library also hosts a significant collection of sheet music and plays. Audio visual materials in various formats can be stramed, borrowed, or listened to in the library facilities. Read more about library locations’ facilities and equipment.

More information about the loan periods and policies is available on the Services page. Printed and electronic materials can be found through Uniarts Helsinki’s search service Arsca.

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Library’s databases provide academic articles, visual materials, music, plays, operas, and more, in electronic format. Suggest new materials for acquisition.

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Library’s Research Guides contain information about materials in your field, tips on how to search for information, and how to use online materials.

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Theses and dissertations

Reference information of Master’s theses

For the reference information of printed and digital theses produced at Uniarts Helsinki, see Arsca search service. An exception to this are records of the oldest Master’s theses completed at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1995–2013, which cannot be found in Arsca. Their reference information is only available as a separate list in Uniarts publication archive Taju.

Digital Master’s theses

You can browse digital Master’s theses completed at Uniarts Helsinki in Taju, for example by degree programme.

Some of the digital theses are freely available on the Internet, while others can only be accessed on Taju terminals in the campus libraries. The publication method depends on the permission given by the author of the thesis at the time of its submission.

Printed Master’s theses

Printed Master’s theses completed at the Sibelius Academy are stored either in Töölö Campus Library or Kuopio Library, depending on the unit from which the student graduated.

Printed Master’s theses completed at the Academy of Fine Arts and the Theatre Academy are stored in Uniarts Helsinki’s publication archive.

Further information

For information on reserving Master’s theses, reading them in the library and ordering them from the archives, see the guides for each topic:

For information about submitting and publishing theses, see the library’s Publishing guide.

Dissertations at Uniarts Helsinki

Digitally published dissertations completed at Uniarts Helsinki are available in Taju, and they can also be found by searching in Arsca.

Printed dissertations are available in Uniarts Helsinki’s library collections.

For more information on dissertations and other Uniarts Helsinki publications, see the Publications website.

Uniarts publication archive Taju

Special collections

The library holds rare exclusive collections that contain materials that have regional or cultural-historical significance. Some of the collections have been received as donations from domestic cultural personas or art institutes. The library also holds a valuable collection of composition manuscripts. The original manuscripts cannot be accessed by customers. In most cases, they can be scanned and published in Taju for research purposes. It is not possible at the moment to print materials from Taju during the Töölö Campus Library’s self-service hours.

Sörnäinen Campus Library hosts artist Lars-Gunnar Nordström’s (1924-2014) special collection of books (catalogue in Taju). Due to the extent of the collection only part of the Nordström’s collections titles are available in Arsca search service.

The Viipurin Näyttämö library collection includes play manuscripts and printed plays which represent plays performed on the Viipuri stage before World War II. Viipurin Näyttämö collection has been catalogued in Arsca and is available for reading room use in Sörnäinen Campus Library. 

In Töölö Campus Library you can use valuable music anthologies and collected works of ca. 130 composers. In addition the library stores: