UEF Primo. Search & sign-in
Search service for printed and e-resources. You can also renew your loans and make reservations.
- Customer Service email. Questions about borrowing, service fees and other general library matters. If you are unsure of which address to contact, send your message to this email. Your message will be forwarded when necessary: [email protected]
- UEF Primo and the use of electronic resources: [email protected]
- Information retrieval and reference management training, information specialist services: [email protected]
- Enquiries concerning the collections and the acquisition of information resources: [email protected]
- Material ordering outside local collections and material delivery to other libraries: [email protected]
- Questions concerning UEF CRIS system and collecting publication data: [email protected]
- Self-archiving for UEF eRepository publication archive: [email protected]
- Service email for electronical publishing: [email protected]
- Questions related to APC fees and benefits: [email protected]
- Questions concerning research data management and data sharing: [email protected]
- Kuopio university hospital (KUH) medical library [email protected]
You will receive a reply to your message at the latest on the fourth working day.
You can also use the service forms.
Customer Service phone numbers
- Joensuu campus library +358294458397 (local/mobile call charge)
- Kuopio campus library +358294458400 (local/mobile call charge)
- KUH medical library +358294458402, +35817173766 (local/mobile call charge)
Addresses
- Joensuu campus library, Yliopistokatu 4, 80100 JOENSUU (Carelia-building)
- Kuopio campus library, Yliopistonranta 8, 70210 KUOPIO (Snellmania-building)
- Kuopio university hospital (KUH) medical library, Puijonlaaksontie 2, 70210 KUOPIO (Puijo hospital, door A)
P. O. Box addresses
- Joensuu campus library, P. O. Box 107, FIN-80101 JOENSUU, Finland
- Kuopio campus library, P. O. Box 1627, FIN-70211 KUOPIO, Finland
- KUH medical library, P. O. Box 100, FIN-70029 KYS, Finland
If you are returning books by mail, please see the instructions.
Invoicing addresses and indentifiers of the University of Eastern Finland
Campus maps & virtual tours
Virtual tour of Joensuu campus
The University of Eastern Finland Library, or UEF Library, is a public scientific library open to everyone who is seeking information. As a public academic library we are offering library and information services especially for the university staff and students.
The Library comprises the campus libraries in Joensuu and Kuopio and the Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library. Our main functions are to support teaching and learning and to support research and publishing. The library is one of the six legal deposit libraries in Finland and a European Documentation Centre.
The functions of the library are defined by the Rules and Regulations of the University of Eastern Finland.
The tasks of the Library:
1. to be responsible for the development and administration of the university’s library and information services
2. to offer library and information services and to organise teaching and guidance which promote the efficient use of information sources
3. to operate as a scientific library open to the public and to attend to the tasks assigned to the Library by legislation
4. to promote the availability of information sources by being actively involved in the scientific library network
5. to improve and develop the university’s publication activities and services relating to open science within the scope of operations of the Library
The action plan of the library 2025-2028 defines the vision and the objectives of the library.
Our annual reports are published at UEF Library blog.
Follow news about KUH Medical Library
Kuopio University Hospital Medical Library closed permanently on 2 April 2026. We will update information about the library services in the news below.
Trainings and events
UEF research publications
- UEF eRepository - the open access materials repository of the University of Eastern Finland that contains theses and publications of the University of Eastern Finland, self-archived versions of articles and metadata of research data made available by our researchers
- UEF CRIS Research Database - the Current Research Information System of the UEF: projects, publications, other scientific and academic activities, experts
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Our Service Promise
- We guarantee confidential service and respect for the customer.
- We will promote a peaceful workplace, a comfortable environment and the customer's right to encounter a staff member part of a healthy professional community.
- The customer will encounter a professional library worker committed to their work and will receive competent guidance in order to find information.
- We will develop our operations together with the customers.
Feedback will be processed daily. Easily fixed issues will be solved immediately if they are essential to the service and in accordance with the operating policy. All feedback will be processed in the relevant services. If necessary, feedback will also be processed in the library’s working groups.
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