The e-resources are protected by the Finnish Copyright Act. The University of Eastern Finland Library and the KUH Medical Library have agreed on the terms of use through licensing agreements.
Staff and students of the University of Eastern Finland (all with UEF username and password)
Once you have a UEF username and password, you can use electronic resources in two different ways. You can choose the login method depending on your needs.
- A narrower way — use without UEF-Primo customer functionalities
Find the material you want in UEF Primo, open the link from the search results, and enter the remote access server your UEF username and password. You can also use the Quick references on library’s homepage. This way you can access e-resources, but UEF Primo's customer functionalities (e.g. saving search results or adding to favorites) are not available to you.
- Wider method — use of UEF Primo's customer functionalities
Register as a library customer online using a customer registration form. Log in to the customer registration form with UEF username; enter the username in the form username@uef.fi. After registering, log in to UEF Primo with your UEF username and password and access e-resources remotely through UEF Primo. At the same time, you get access to UEF Primo’s customer functionalities such as renewing loans, saving favorites and searches. Logged in to UEF Primo, you get more search results than without logging in: in part of the databases, the right to retrieve content is limited only to those users who have access to the resources. Such databases include Scopus, Web of Science, and CAB Abstracts, among others.
Login is irrelevant in search of printed material. For more information, visit the Information retrieval and training page on library’s website.
Registration does not require retrieving a library card from the library - a library card is only needed when borrowing printed books.
If you are not able to log in to the customer registration form, check if you've already signed in to another organization's Microsoft account. Contradictory login is not possible. You can then fill in the form, for example, on a mobile device.
If you already have a library customership, but you are unable to log in into UEF Primo, the problem is most likely in your customer information. To solve the problem, contact library@uef.fi. You don’t need to register as a customer again.
KUH staff
Register as a library customer online using a customer registration form. After registering, you will receive a separate remote access ID by visiting KUH Medical Library, or if you already have a library card, emailing kys.kirj@kuh.fi. Log in to remote access via a separate login page.
If you are a member of KUH staff, but also have a UEF username, act like staff and students at the University of Eastern Finland (see help above).
If you already have a library customership, but you are unable to log in into UEF Primo, the problem is most likely in your customer information. To solve the problem, contact library@uef.fi. You don’t need to register as a customer again.