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Database quick guides: Oula-Finna

Quick references of the most central databases in the University of Oulu

Oula-Finna

Database quick guide: Oula-Finna and Arto

DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES

Truncation and wildcard

- can not be used as the first character in a search term

*  replaces 0…n characters


Without truncation finds

- words similar to the searched Finnish word

- English s-ending forms

child*
> child, children's childhood

päiväkoti 
> päiväkoti, päiväkodin, vuorohoitopäiväkodissa, päiväkirjani ... kotimaassa

emotion 
> emotion, emotions

? replaces a single character wom?n
> woman, women
Phrases

Double quotation marks = exact phrase

- no truncation 

- suitable for searching for known publication

"computational thinking"

"positiivinen pedagogiikka"

"computer* progra*" 


"International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders"

Operators

Search terms are automatically combined using AND.

Operators must be in capital letters.

health nutrition child*

"participatory design" OR "cooperative design" OR "co-operative design"

Tips

It's possible to use boolean search strings with operators and parentheses in basic search (NB: search terms / phrases are automatically combined using AND).

 

("participatory design" OR "cooperative design" OR "co-operative design") ("user interface" OR "user interfaces")

(monikulttuuri* OR maahanmuut*) AND (päiväko* OR varhaiskasvat*)

((social media) OR instagram OR facebook) AND (brand OR marketing)

More info: Oula-Finna

Oula-Finna:

Books, journals, databases etc.: the library’s books, journals, databases and thesis.

E-materials: International e-materials search; peer reviewed articles either as references or as full texts.

National Repository Library: in Kuopio; free of charge book and article requests.

Finnish articles: The Arto reference database contains mainly Finnish scientific articles. Journal.fi Finnish Scholarly Journals Online.