Use on the legal deposit terminals

Due to copyright-related reasons, legal deposits can only be used on the legal deposit terminals in the legal deposit libraries. 

On the terminals:

  • all materials can be searched, viewed and listened without user ID   
  • digital copies cannot be taken of their content
  • the contents cannot be saved onto a customer's own memory device
  • there is no Internet connection and emails cannot be sent

The materials can be photographed or recorder directly from the screen or recorded through the loudspeakers, but only for private use.  Internet pages and digitised journals can be printed. Printing is subject to a charge.

Legal deposit terminals

Service prices of the National Library of Finland

Valid legislation: The Copyright Act (404/1961)