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Useful links within the field of beauty care
Cosmetics Europe
For more than 50 years we have been an established European association representing over 4000 member companies and associations of different sizes in the cosmetics and personal care industry. Our experts have been a trusted partner to policy makers on regulatory and scientific matters. We are committed to working collaboratively with all stakeholders to shape a successful future for our members.
Fashion Projects
Fashion Projects began in New York in 2004, with the aim to create a platform to highlight the importance of fashion, especially “experimental” fashion.
It's primarily a print journal, however they also publish web-based updates and interviews.
The Museum at FIT
The Museum at FIT is a specialized fashion museum and is best known for its innovative and award winning special exhibitions.
The Museum’s permanent collection encompasses some 50,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the present.
The Sartorialist
A fashion blog.
Founder/blogger/photographer Scott Schuman began The Sartorialist with the idea of creating a two-way dialogue about the world of fashion and its relationship to daily life.
Street-fashion
Street Fashion.net is a worldwide community. It’s about originality and the ability to apply style and design to what you wear.
Trendhunter
TrendHunter.com is the world's largest, most popular trend community.
Dictionaries and Thesauri
Electropedia
Electropedia (also known as the "IEV Online") is the world's most comprehensive online electrical and electronic terminology database containing more than 20 000 terms and definitions in English and French organized by subject area, with equivalent terms in various other languages: Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Finnish, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish and Swedish (coverage varies by subject area).
Electropedia is produced by the IEC, the world’s leading organization that prepares and publishes International Standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as “electrotechnology”. Electropedia contains all the terms and definitions in the International Electrotechnical Vocabulary or IEV which is published also as a set of publications in the IEC 60050 series that can be ordered separately from the IEC webstore.
Finto
Finto is a Finnish thesaurus and ontology service, which enables both the publication and browsing of vocabularies.
TEPA The Finnish Terminology Centre TSK's term bank
TEPA is a free-of-charge term bank maintained by the Finnish Terminology Centre TSK (Sanastokeskus TSK) containing special language terms and definitions in cirka 365 000 terminological entries. TEPA contains vocabularies, dictionaries and terminological databases compiled by both TSK and other experts. The most common languages in TEPA are Finnish, Swedish, English and German.
Legislation
EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex is the entry point to the complete collections of EU legal texts:
- Official Journal of the European Union
- Treaties
- Legislation
- Legislation in preparation
- Case-law
- Parliamentary questions
- Documents of public interest
- Enlargement
Finlex
FINLEX is a freely accessible database of Finnish legislation. The texts are mainly in Finnish and in Swedish.
Statistics
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Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, gives free access to economic and social information on the euro-zone, the EU and the 25 Member States. More than 300 million data, from many different domains, are available online, varying from consumer prices, through poverty or environmental indicators, to detailed external trade data by product.
Ilostat Database
The ILOSTAT database of the ILO is the main source of worldwide data on labour markets and unemployment
OECD Data
The OECD publishes statistics for OECD countries and selected non-member countries.Topics include demographics, health, education and finance.
Statistical yearbooks
Statistical yearbooks from Finland and other countries
UNData
Statistical resources compiled by the UN statistical system and other international agencies. The numerous databases or tables collectively known as "datamarts" contain over 60 million data points and cover a wide range of statistical themes. UNdata is a web-based data service for the global user community.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Globally and internationally comparable statistics on education, science, technology, culture and communication.
World Development Indicators
The WDI database includes statistics worldwide since 1960. The indicators focus on different economic, social and environmental aspects.
Other useful guides
Novia e-books
n the guide there is information about reading, downloading and borrowing e-books. There is also information about Novia's e-book services and some free services.
Guidance
During your studies you have the possibility to make an appointment for guidance in information retrieval within your field of subject. You will get advice on how to find relevant and reliable sources; which databases to use and how to recognize scientific material as well as how to search in different databases to find articles, books and other publications by using effective search strategies.
