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Library

SAMK Library is a meeting place where learning, research and expertise are supported.

Read and borrow

Get a free SAMK Library card and read books, journals and theses. Borrow and return in any campus library.

Find information

Find up-to-date information for your studies. SAMK students have access to international databases and online resources in Finna. Learn information retrieval on Library Moodle. Our book a librarian service, INFOtelakka offers personal assistance for SAMK students by appointment.

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Library Moodle

INFOtelakka – Book a librarian

Visit your campus library

Welcome to our campus libraries in Pori, Rauma, Huittinen and Kankaanpää.

Contact info and library hours

Summer closures and service breaks

Get a library card and borrow

You can borrow materials from all campus libraries with the free SAMK Library card.

As a SAMK student, you can use your digital library card in Tuudo mobile app. You can get a plastic library card free of charge from the library, if you wish.
As a visitor, please fill in a form to get a library card. Go to samk.finna.fi > Login > E-mail (visitors) > Sign up for a SAMK library card.

You should have an official ID card with you. The library card is your personal property and you are responsible for items borrowed with the card. You should return or renew the borrowed items by the due date to avoid overdue fines. Renew online in Finna or in the library. Return your loans to any campus library. Notify the library if your contact details change or you lose your card. The library will send overdue and other notices by e-mail to your e-mail address.

As a SAMK student: Log in to Finna with your SAMK ID. Select Haka Login.
As a visitor: Log in to Finna with your e-mail.

Library rules

As a library customer you accept our borrowing policies, loan periods, overdue fines, charges and code of conduct.

Loan periods

Renew

Return

Overdue fines, charges and borrowing restrictions

You can pay online in Finna and with a debit or credit card at campus libraries in Pori and Rauma.

Requests

Placing a request for an item in the collection of SAMK library: free of charge

Fines for overdue items for SAMK students and customers outside SAMK

Fine after an item has been returned or the loan renewed after the due date: 0,20 €/day/item

Maximum fine per an individual item: 20 €/item

Fine will be charged also in the case when a customer has not received the messages from the library or has not been able to log in the online library.

The overdue fine is added to the library account when the overdue item is returned or renewed.

Losing the borrowing right and regaining the borrowing right

The customer will lose the borrowing right, if they have unpaid fees of 20 € or more. The borrowing right can be regained when the borrowed items have been returned or paid for and fines or other payments made.

Replacement of items

A lost or damaged or not returned item must be paid for according to the purchase price, which is at least 40 € and the costs of collecting debts. If agreed, the replacement can be carried out by purchasing a new, corresponding item and by paying the costs caused by collecting debts.

Loans and copies reserved from other libraries for the students and the personnel of SAMK

A loan or a copy reserved form another library: free of charge

A loan or copy reserved from another library that the customer does not collect: 5 €

Interlibrary loans and copies: free of charge

Loans and copies reserved from other libraries for customers that do not belong to the students or the personnel of SAMK

A loan or a copy reserved from another SAMK library: free of charge

Domestic interlibrary loans and interlibrary copies: 18 €/item

Foreign interlibrary loans and interlibrary copies: 40 €/item

Interlibrary services for others than university of applied sciences libraries

A sent interlibrary item or copy: 10 €/item

Information service

Information searches conducted and personal guidance and counselling given by library personnel (min. 30 minutes) for customers outside SAMK: 50 €/h (incl. VAT)

Guidance (max. 30 minutes) for customers outside SAMK: free of charge

Independent information search at the library: free of charge

The charges are based on the decision made by the President of Satakunta University of Applied Sciences on 3 March 2020.

Place a hold

Need publications not in the library's collections?

Publications by authorities, universities and organizations may be found online in many cases.

You can borrow items from other university libraries and municipal libraries.

Please let us know about items that could make a valuable addition to our collections.

How to find scientific journal articles? Try these:

Interlibrary lending may be used when the desired book, thesis, dissertation or journal article cannot be found in the SAMK library and in the library's databases and online resources. Copies of journal articles can be delivered, not the printed copy of a journal itself. Loan periods vary depending on the sending library.

Find information

Find information for your studies. SAMK students have access to international databases and online resources.

In Finna Discovery Service you will find books, e-books, journals, theses and links to essential online resources and databases. Go to Finna and see E-resources menu for lists of databases and online resources.

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Help and guidance

Our library staff will help you with printed and online collections. If you need quick guidance in information searching, please, contact our staff.

Learn information retrieaval skills and citing on Library Moodle.

Our book a librarian service, INFOtelakka is for SAMK students who need for example information for their theses. INFOtelakka offers personal assistance through appointments.

Library Moodle

INFOtelakka – Book a librarian

E-books

SAMK Library has purchased thousands of e-books from various publishers for students. There are links in Finna for course e-books and other online publications and theses. Use Finna to find a certain e-book or browse the collections. You can find freely available e-publications with Google or another search engine.

Online theses by SAMK students and other Universities of Applied Sciences are freely available at Theseus.fi.

E-books are available in several formats. You can often read a book directly on a web page or download it to your computer as a PDF file.

Commercial publishers' e-books are often protected and the free Adobe Digital Editions software is needed. Note that this is a different software than Adobe Reader.

E-Books

You'll have access to top resources anywhere and anytime.

Course books in accessible format for students with print disabilities

Students with print disabilities often need course books in accessible format. There are different options available.

Sometimes e-books in the university library’s collection are accessible with an assistive device or app. If not, Celia can provide accessible course books for studies in Finnish universities. Depending on the situation, Celia can either produce the course book for it’s own collection or provide access to an audio book in partner organization’s collection.

SAMK students should contact Pasi Lehto. See the staff search page.

Listening and reading aids (celianet.fi)

Making acquisition requests (celianet.fi)

Stay up-to-date with newspapers and magazines

SAMK students have access to thousands of online magazines, journals and newspapers from various publishers. There are also printed professional magazines in campus libraries for you to read and borrow.

Professional magazines

Check out the printed magazines and journals we subscribe to our campus libraries. You can find online magazines in Finna. Search for the magazine or journal title or use the international e-materials search in Finna to find online articles.

E-Journals