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Copyrights
Until which year are newspapers or journals available in this web service?All newspapers and journals until 31.12.1939 are available online. Swedish language newspapers are available until 1949. The later newspapers are available at legal deposit libraries. The material from 1940 onwards is not put to general public use at the moment. Some newer titles are digitised and opened with collaborations. The newest materials can be read at the legal deposit workstations.
Can I use content of the webservice in my book/newspaper etc.?
- Copyright-free material can be used for this kind of purposes.
- Some material can have copyrights, even if it can be read in this service.
- Then use your own consideration: if the author or photographer has been mentioned, clarify the years of their birth and death before possible republication. You can ask for permission from original author or ask advice at neuvonta(at)kopiosto.fi.
Why should I use Haka login?
Newspaper and journal material of years 1930-2021 is available via Haka-login. Project Tutkain makes it possible to utilize Finnish digitized newspapers and journals from collections of National Library of Finland in research use with user accounts of participating organizations. Read more at: https://www.kansalliskirjasto.fi/en/news/research-use-digitised-newspapers-and-journals-continue-2023-2027
Lifetime of author and copyrights?
If it is passed over 70 years from the death of the author , can images of that person's articles or pages of books put online freely? Yes. If it has been over 70 years of the death of the author, materials can be used freely without copyright limitations. If author's death has occurred less than 70 years ago, can I cite them? Yes, if protection period is in force, you can cite materials can be cited according to good manners and appropriately to the purpose. Also photos can be used if it is a scientific publication. Republishing online is not citing.
Can I put article I found to social media?
- Copyright-free material can be used in this manner
- For example, in advertisements, notifications there usually is no copyrightable content, so those can be used in social media.
- If article is in-copyright, you can do create a clipping and use link to it or to the page.
How can I cite materials?
When you use materials, mark the source e.g. Wiipuri, 31.12.1904, nbr 100, page 2. National Library's Digital Collections, https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi. Next to materials there is the citation tool ("), which gives citation for the material.
Can I get a print of a newspaper page?
You can order copies from National Library. Read more from reprographic service.
Can I get a print of a newspaper page?
You can order copies from National Library. Read more from reprographic service.
I would like to read more on copyrights?
There are lots of material about copyrights online, see e.g. https://tekijanoikeus.fi, Kopiosto, https://www.opettajantekijanoikeus.fi, Kuvasto and Sanasto.
How do I get non-digitised material into use?
All newspapers have been microfilmed. The material until end of 1944 is primarly accessible in National Library. Younger newspapers need to be subscribed from storage. You can find number of the microfilm from Finna.fi-service and order desired microfilm with name of the newspaper, publication time and number of microfilm.
Where can I read in-copyright material?
There are many options.
- All material can be read at legal deposit libraries
- If you belong to Tutkain-pilot about research use of digitised materials. You can read materials 1930-2010 , by logging in with Haka-login.
- Historical labour newspapers are readable onsite in several Labour libraries, archives and museums.
Can I read materials available in the Digi.nationallibrary.fi service abroad?
Yes.
Search and metadata
How does search function?
You can write the search terms to the text search field, search starts with clicking search button. You can add search operators like title, publication place, time period or combine these as needed.
How the accuracy is defined in search?
The search engine counts a value for each search hit, which calculates search term repeatability in proportion to the total words of a page. In fuzzy search it is compared how near a word is with the search term.
Some newspapers are missing their issue number?
There have been different kinds of practices in issue numbering of the newspapers. Usually number 0 means sample number.
How to search with characters of different languages?
You can search with different characters directly. For example nordic characters (æ,Æ) (search example of æple). There can be OCR errors with these so ? for replacing one character or star (*) to replace several characters can be useful.
General
Until which year are the historical digitized newspapers available in this service?
All the digitized newspapers until 31.12.1939 are available via this web service and the Swedish-language newspapers will be available until 1949. For the rest of the material you need to visit one of the legal deposit libraries in Finland. Do remember to check the opening times of the libraries, as there can be changes during public holidays and holiday season.
How can I support National Library of Finland?
Please use Digi.nationallibrary.fi -service and tell about it to others. You can support preservering of cultural heritage via donating through the University of Helsinki donations. . Pick your sum, and choose the target, for example Cultural Heritage Fund of the National Library of Finland and add Donor's message to the university e.g. Digi.nationallibrary.fi or specific collection. You can always send suggestions via Digi.nationallibrary.fi feedback form.
Where can I find instructions to using this webservice?
You can find some instruction videos in Youtube-channel of National Library, short generic help: https://youtu.be/h2pPpnUAw7o, hints with collections: https://youtu.be/6QpEa5hMUUg and search: https://youtu.be/v5yldQpjmOs .
Why certain ephemera does not show the hit environment?
There has been no text recognition done for industrial ephemera, so they do not show the hit environment.
Why certain ephemera shows 1810 as publication year?
If ephemera has no publication year visible, then we show the particular ephemera collection years, for example 1810-1944. In these kinds of cases Digi does not tell accurately that it is unsure of year or year range.
What are principles based on which National Library digitises?
We create with long-term digitisation critical masses for research- and citizen use. We will progress digitisation and with it the visibility, accessability and usability of unique collections.
Almost all the newspapers are in Swedish. When will newspapers in Finnish be available?
The majority of the newspapers in Finland were published in Swedish in the 19th century. All the newspapers published in either of the two official languages up to 1939 are available online and the rest via the legal deposit libraries in Finland.
Line breaks in the Article Index usually involve hyphen-ated words. Could this be helped?
The hyphens come from the typing of the Article Index and cannot be removed automatically because in that case words such as "Keski-Suomi" would be written as "KeskiSuomi". It would take a lot of work to correct hundreds of thousands of entries manually.
Why don't search terms always get highlighted on the page?
The keywords are colored based on the coordinates created for each word in the text recognition phase. If the words are not highlighted correctly, most often the reason may be an error in text recognition (e.g. c->e), or even a special character in a search word or between words. In the additional functions of the top bar and 'search inside this binding' tool, you can check the keywords that have entered the page and edit them if necessary. If you have any other problem, please send feedback and a link to the page where the problem occurs.
I would like guidance to our digitisation project?
First clarify the rights of the rights holders. Permission is needed for digitisation, and additionally to the republishing to public. Based on copyright law 16§ some libraries like National Library can digitise material that belong to their collections for internal usage purposes. Permission needs to be asked from each author and photographer, unless they have moved rights onwards via a contract. Kopiosto represents rights holders in case of newspapers and journals.
Technical issues
Login does not work
Check that you use correct account and password.
Facebook login is not anymore in use.
You can ask transfer of clippings to another account or to new Digi-specific account via Feedback form.
It can be useful to take a backup of clippings via Own Clipbook > Download as Excel-file feature. You can
also use latest version of Digi Downloadtool, to get clippings to your own computer.
Error in Haka login Please empty cookies of Digi. E.g. in Firefox : Tools > Settings ; Get Cookies -> Manage > Remove digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi cookies
Error in Digiweb loginYou can renew forgotten password when selecting Digiweb at login window and
the renew link is visible at the bottom of the screen.
Cannot send feedback via feedback form?
If the feedback form shows 'sending failed' message, it most often mean that necessary cookies are not approved. You can either empty cookies or try private mode in browser. Alternatively you can send feedback via email to kansalliskirjasto@helsinki.fi .
Clippings
What happens to clippings if usage permission to material expires?
If certain material is accessable via a contract for certain period, the access ends when the contract ends. Clippings remains existing, but only accessable in places where required access exists.
What is a clipping? Who can see clippings?
Clipping is kind of 'bookmark' of some interesting part of the material, which can be a news item, advertisement or a picture. All clippings are visible to everybody in generic Clippings area.
How do I backup my clippings?
Login with the account which backup you want. Go to 'Clipbook' page. Click 'Download resuls as Excel-file' button, so you can get clippings with text to your machine. (If you want text of clippings, check from Settings that Clippings Excel: show OCR Text of clipping is on).
How do I remove a clipping?
Login with an account which clipping you want to be removed. Choose 'Own Clipbook' and change the view style to 'row mode'. Click the trashcan icon from right side to remove the clipping. The removal of clipping removes clipping from own clipbook, but it remains in generic Clippings area.
How do I create a clipping?
Go to page, where you want to make a clipping and click scissors. If you are not logged in , you are requested
to do so. Select the area (or several) for the clipping. Give the metadata for the clipping on the right side,
at least title, impact and keywords. Press 'Save'. Clipping is saved and visible in Own Scrapbook and Clippings area.
Making clippings and logging in at legal deposit workstations
At legal deposit workstations, you can only make clips with a digiweb username and password, so please request them before you go to work at legal deposit workstation. These clips cannot be used anywhere other than at the legal deposit workstations, if clips are from in-copyright material.
I don't have social media accounts? How to create a clipping?
You can ask digi-specific digiweb-account via feedback form. Account does not give special rights to material, but enables e.g. creation of clippings.
Other
Printing of a area or a page
Open a content page, enlarge or shrink to desired size and click 'Print'-icon. You can mark the desired areas from
one or several pages and you can see selection in preview window. Print shows areas and sends them to printer. If you need
the full page, using print feature of browser (File->Print). Digi fits the page to A4. If you want larger, enlarge the visible areaa
before selection / printing.
I am searching for a particular title?
Use the title search to find particular title, search by title name or ISSN.
How do I search papers of particular date?
Use the publication dates fields. You can write desired date directly or search it via calendar.
What kind of interfaces there is to Digi?
Digi has OAI-PMH interface, which enables harvesting metadata of materials. Read more of interfaces