A Short Introduction to the

Interesting WWW Links

by Heikki Kantola

Chapter V: Books, magazines and newspapers

Reading is a nice hobby and since the advent of the Internet even more and more publications have entered the electronic world. I've collected here some of the most interesting ones, although there sure is many more available, see for example the Online Books page or Google Directory - News > Newspapers for good listings.

Books

• Project Gutenberg
• The Internet Book Information Center
• Project Runeberg - Nordic literature
• The Linköping Science Fiction & Fantasy Archive
• WSOY - large Finnish publisher

Libraries

Even as you can't get books from libraries via the 'Net, you can possibly check which books they currently have on the shelves.

Helsinki City Library

With Helmet search system you can search Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen Public Libraries' Bibliographic Database

HELKA Libraries

The Libraries of various University of Helsinki departments (+ few other libraries) have a common HELKA database, which one can seach via WWW-interface.

Muisti

Project for digitization and network delivery of the Finnish national collection.

Library of Congress

A nifty WWW page with lots of interesting information.

Magazines

City-Lehti

Finnish bimonthly magazine for urban youth

Talentum

Publisher of various Finnish computer and business magazines

Future publishing

British publisher of several magazines

Time

The weekly news magazine's nice online edition

HotWired

Wired's famous online version

Ylioppilaslehti

Student magazine published by the Student Union of the University of Helsinki.

Yliopisto

Biweekly scientific and news magazine of the University of Helsinki.

Universitas Helsingiensis

The Quarterly of University of Helsinki.

heise online

Publisher of c't, iX and few other German computer magazines. Some articles also in English.

Newspapers

The Electronic Telegraph

One of the first electronic news papers

The Times

Online version of the tradional British newspaper

Helsingin Sanomat

Online version of the largest Finnish daily newspaper

Iltalehti

Online edition of the Finnish tabloid.

Ilta-Sanomat

The other Finnish tabloid

Kouvolan Sanomat

The leading newspaper of my home district of Northern Kymenlaakso 

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