Oula-Finna-opas

• 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: Finnish scientific articles, incl. Journal.fi Finnish Scholarly Journals Online.

Without truncation finds words similar to the searched Finnish word

puhehäiriö > puhehäiriöt, puheenkehityksen häiriöt, kielihäiriöisten puheterapia...
"sosiaalinen media" > sosiaalinen media, sosiaalista mediaa...

and English s-ending forms

emotion > emotion, emotions

*  replaces 0…n characters

econom* > economy, economics, economically...

? replaces a single character

organi?ation*  > organisation, organizationally... 
also: organisation* OR organization*

Phrases

"social media" > social media
"sosiaalinen media" > sosiaalinen media, sosiaalista mediaa...
"reading disorder" > reading disorder, reading disorders

Titles

"International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders" 
"ihmisen psykologinen kehitys" 
 

No truncation inside quotation marks

"remote work*" > remote work
"remote wor*" > did not match any resources.

Search terms are automatically combined using AND.

health nutrition child*

OR-operator

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

Basic search

When the entire search query, including all keywords with OR and AND operators, is written into a single search box, the OR terms must be enclosed in parentheses.

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

Advanced search

Words combined with OR operator are written in their own search box so parentheses are not needed.

• first row: "sosiaalinen media"~2 OR "social media" OR instagram* OR facebook*
• second row: bränd* OR brand* OR markkin* OR market*.

Available online: link to

• e-version with or without logging in with UniOulu or Oamk username
• OuluREPO: most of the publications are openly accessible
• electronic legal deposit material accessible on designated legal deposit workstation.

Content type: Book material

• Book: printed books
• eBook: mostly logging in with UniOulu or Oamk username
• Audiobook: logging in with UniOulu or Oamk username or legal deposit material accessible on designated legal deposit workstation.

Content type: Thesis

• Doctoral dissertation: from UniOulu, other Finnish universities or other countiries even
• Pro gradu: UniOulu, OuluREPO
• Master's: UniOulu, OuluREPO
• Bachelor's: UniOulu, OuluREPO
• Bachelor's (UAS): Oamk, Theseus
• Master's (UAS): Oamk, Theseus.

• Uses thousands of international databases: Ebsco, ProQuest, Scopus, Web of Science, IEEE, ACM, PubMed, Medline, JSTOR, DOAB, DOAJ etc.
• All fields incl. full texts.
• Title: incl. article and journal title.
• Double quotation marks: "heart attack" > heart attack, heart attacks.
• Truncation: econom* > economy, economics, economically...

Boolean operators

• Operators must be in capital letters: AND, OR, NOT.
  • narrat* NOT "narrative review"
  • "systematic review" OR "narrative review"
  • anesthe* OR anaesthe* > anaesthesia, anesthesia, anaesthetic, anesthetic, anaesthetics, anesthetics, anaesthetise, anesthetise, anaesthetize, anesthetize, anaesthetising, anesthetizing, anaesthetist, anesthetist, anaesthesiology, anesthesiologists...
• Search terms are automatically combined using AND.
  • teach* "narrative review" 
• When the entire search query, including all keywords with OR and AND operators, is written into a single search box, the OR terms must be enclosed in parentheses.
  • (stor* OR narrat*) AND (game* OR gaming* OR videogame OR videogam* OR "video game").

Advanced search from International e-materials

• Between search boxes is always AND operation.
• Matches exactly is for one phrase search: social media > "social media".
• Choose Boolean operator between search terms: All terms (AND) or Any term (OR).