Promoting the use of newspapers and journals in research and education

The project is piloting Haka user identification in the Digi system. The following measures will be taken during the pilot:

• Ensuring that the technical implementation enables the appropriate use of newspaper and journal material in research and education
• Developing operations on the basis of feedback
• Ensuring the feasibility of model agreements
• Providing organisations with an understanding of the scope and opportunities of newspaper and journal use
• Promoting and consolidating the use of newspapers and journals in research and education

Haka is the most prevalent user identification system employed by Finnish universities and institutions of higher education (some 296,000 end users). Haka is based on a federation of trust whose membership, comprised of researchers, students and staff, are able to log into the services of several organisations using the user identification provided by their home organisation. The information management of the home organisation is responsible for the user data and identity verification of their users. User data for services accessed through Haka are received directly from the users’ home organisation.

The data available for the organisations participating in the pilot and their permissible uses are determined in a pilot agreement drawn up in collaboration with Kopiosto, a copyright organisation. The pilot organisations are

• Faculty of Arts, University of Helsinki (students, academic and other staff)
• Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki (staff)
• University of Jyväskylä (staff and students)
• University of Oulu (degree programme HIKUVIE)
• University of Tampere (researchers and teachers of history, media and communication, as well as journalism)
• University of Turku (the research group in the discipline of cultural history)

The dataset made available in the pilot encompasses the restricted-use newspapers and journals of the Digi collections up to the year 2010. The use of the material must relate to research and education. Use of the pilot system is free of charge to the participating organisations. Kopiosto will receive copyright compensation from the Ministry of Education and Culture.

All digital newspapers and journals up to the year 2010 are accessible in the Haka pilot coordinated by the National Library of Finland. A list of all the digital newspapers available in the collections of the National Library can be found at digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/sanomalehti/titles while a list of all the journals available can be found at digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/aikakausi/titles.

Newspapers and journals available in digital format in the Digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi service can also be accessed at the legal deposit libraries (see the list at www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/legal-deposit-office).

Instructions for data mining: https://natlibfidigi.gitlab.io/gitbook/