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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.
OECD Data
The OECD publishes statistics for OECD countries and selected non-member countries.Topics include demographics, health, education and finance.
SOTKAnet
SOTKAnet har en bred täckning av statistikuppgifter om finländarnas välfärd och hälsa. Indikatorbanken innehåller också centrala uppgifter om hälsotillståndet samt konsumtionen av social service och hälso- och sjukvård i olika europeiska länder.
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.
Information searching
Information about effective search strategies and different stages of the search process; Defining the search topic, Planning, Searching, Evaluating the search results, Choosing and using sources, Searching for information online, Finna search services, Open access (OA), Google Scholar, Evaluating online sources, Good to know about search engines
