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Scientific search engines

Google Scholar
A web search engine for scientific information. When you log in with your University of Oulu user ID, you have access to the licensed electronic resources also from outside the University of Oulu Network. Google Scholar quick guide
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A search engine for freely accessible scholarly literature.

More information about the database
CiteSeerX
An evolving scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on literature in computer and information science.
Microsoft Academic
Microsoft's response to Google Scholar. However it contains more tools for researchers evaluation.

More information about the database

Evaluating Internet sources

Internet sources must be critically evaluated, taking in consideration information reliability, permanence of source, availability of the document and copyrights.

Instructions on how to evaluate Internet sources:

Finding search terms

Use the tools listed below to find terminology related to your subject area. More about finding search terms in Finding scientific information

MOT Dictionaries
General language and specialist dictionaries from Finnish into English, Swedish, French, German and a large selection of other languages.

Scopus
Start searching with concepts and terminology familiar to you. You can find more potential search terms in the Keyword category of the Refine Results box.

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Scopus is a large abstract and citation database covering over 21,000 titles in the fields of science, technology, medicine (100% Medline coverage), social sciences and Arts & Humanities. It includes 6.5 million conferences papers, book series and trade publications. Scopus also cross-searches 24 million patents from five patent offices (US Patent & Trademark Office, European Patent Office, Japan Patent Office, World Intellectual Property Organization and the UK Intellectual Property Office).
Wikipedia
Useful resource for getting to know the subject and finding synonyms.

Key reference databases

Scopus
Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database: journals, conference papers, trade publications, book series, patents. With SFX link you can see whether the item is available electronically and link directly to the full-text.
Scopus quick guide | User rights | More information about the database
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary abstract and citation database: journals and journal and book-based proceedings. With SFX link you can see whether the item is available electronically and link directly to the full-text. Web of Science quick guide | Rights to use | More information about the database

Web of Science provides access to 6 citation databases: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Science, Conference Proceedings Citation Index- Social Science & Humanities and Emerging Sources Citation Index. More information.
SciFinder-n (Chemical Abstracts)
An easy-to-use interface for the world's leading chemical information sources, millions of literature and patent references, as well as chemical compounds and reactions containing information of CAS databases, such as the Chemical Abstracts database. Also contains Medline. Only the students and staff of University of Oulu are entitled to use this database. All users need to create a personal account to use SciFinder. You will get instructions for registration from elele@oulu.fi. SciFinder quick guide | Rights to use | SciFinder Content
Ebsco Databases
Several databases in many different subject areas. Full text and reference databases. With SFX link you can see whether the item is available electronically and link directly to the full-text. Ebsco quick guide | Ebsco tutorials (YouTube)
ProQuest Databases
Contains several databases in several subject areas. Searches can be carried out for one or multiple databases at once. With SFX link you can see whether the item is available electronically and link directly to the full text. ProQuest quick guide

Full text databases

IEEE Xplore - IEEE/IEE Electronic Library
Full-text access to 121 IEEE transactions, journals, magazines and over 400 conference proceedings published since 1988 plus select content back to 1950, and all current 900 IEEE standards. IEEE quick guide | Rights to Use

The IEEE/IEE Electronic Library provides a single source to almost a third of the world's current electrical engineering and computer science literature, granting unparalleled access to publications from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE). Available online through the IEEE XploreTM interface.
ACM Digital Library
Full text articles and bibliographic citations mainly in computing sciences and a reference database. ACM quick guide | User rights
ScienceDirect (Elsevier)
Multidisciplinary ejournals since 1995. Quick guide. User rights and description.
Wiley Online Library
E-journals in multiple subject areas Quick guide | User rights and description
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
Full text of over 9000 publications in nearly every academic field of study. Ebsco quick guide | Content info
arXiv e-print archive
e-Print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. arXiv quick guide

Information on citing articles available. The contents of arXiv conform to Cornell University academic standards. arXiv is owned, operated and funded by Cornell University, a private not-for-profit educational institution.
ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
International literature in business research. ProQuest quick guide

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Accessing a journal article

It is often difficult to access individual journal articles. Try searching for journal articles with the following useful tools:

Oula-Finna library catalogue
Search by Article title.

Google Scholar
Search by article title. Use also Google. Quick guide | More information
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
A search engine for freely accessible scholarly literature.

More information about the database

Universal borrowing
Through Universal Borrowing the staff and students of the University of Oulu can request journal articles free of charge from the National Repository Library, which is located in Kuopio. Instructions
Interlibrary loan service

Alternative access to articles
How to access a scholarly article when the organisation does not have a valid licence agreement for the journal? Useful tips from the FinELib.

Evaluating articles

Guide for Evaluation based on scientific publishing : Evaluating articles

RefWorks

RefWorks enables you to
- create your personal database
- share references
- create a bibliography
- create in-text-citations

New RefWorks Guide

Freely available reference management software: Mendeley, JabRef (with BibTeX), Zotero.

Citation Alerts

Making a citation alert means that you will be automatically kept up-to-date when a certain article or a particular researcher has been cited.

Citation alerts in Scopus and Web of Science databases