E-journals

Accessing articles and journals

All ordered magazines are listed in the Oula-Finna database. In addition, you can find open access scientific journals and articles online. Scientific journals are primarily subscribed to in electronic format. Information on the availability of journals subscribed to by the University of Oulu Library can be found in the Oula-Finna database.

Users of journals and articles must comply with the terms of use of the materials. The terms of use are provided on the websites of the FinELib consortium, the database, the publisher, or the journal.

Search in Oula-Finna   

  • If the article is published in an international journal, go to the E-materials tab. Links in Oula-Finna grant you access to the full text electronic version of an article.
  • If there is no link, search for a journal title in Oula-Finna Books, journals, databases etc.

If the journal can't be found, go to the National Repository Library tab and check the availability of the journal. Customers can request article copies free of charge..

The interlibrary loan service searches and orders publications for loan and photocopies of publications.

Finding articles in Google Scholar

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. When you find an interesting article through Google Scholar, you can access it if the University of Oulu has access rights to the publication mentioned or it is openly available in some other way.

Haka Login

Log in with your University of Oulu user ID for off-campus access to electronic resources.

Link resolver

Link resolver (Linkityspalvelu)
Link resolver provides seamless access to electronic full-text content across all databases; for example External Link Iconor Check Oula-Finna for availability (opens in a new window) or Libkey link or BrowZine link.

LibKey
Link delivers one-click access to full-text (PDF); for example in International e-material search in Oula-Finna.

BrowZine
BrowZine allows you to browse and search e-journals acquired by Oulu University Library. 

Once you've selected a subject area you can choose to sort journals by title or by their Scimago Journal Rank (SJR). SJR is an open access service that includes indicators developed based on data in the Scopus database for evaluating journals and countries. 

You can open the article as a PDF, and export citation to Mendeley in Export Citation.

Links to BrowZine  appear for example in International e-material search results in Oula-Finna as well as in other databases like Ebsco.

The BrowZine Account feature is not subscribed to Oulu University.

LibKey Nomad 
Browser extension gives you fast, one-click access to scholarly articles provided by University of Oulu.

In databases there is

  • Download PDF or a link to database where the full-text is
  • BrowZine link where you may bworse and search journals.
    For example in Scopus database:

LibKey.io
Go from DOI or PMID to article in one-click.

  • DOI (digital object identifer) is a unique, persistent identifying number for a document published online. 
  • PMID is unique identifier number used in PubMed.

Lyhenteet | Abbreviations

  • Kansainvälisen tieteellisen lehden nimellä on usein standardoitu lyhenne, jota käytetään mm. lähdeluetteloissa. 
  • Journal title abbreviation is standardized short form of journal name, often used in citations and reference lists.