Below are links to the main sources of of information in the sociology, social work, social psychology and social policy.
Note: The links open in UEF Primo, through which you can easily log in to the material as a remote user. Remote access is possible for all UEF students and staff.
From UEF Primo you can find all printed and electronic materials acquired by the library, including books, journals, databases and other resources.
In UEF Primo, you can also search for international scientific articles and other electronic publications.
Finna.fi Materials from libraries, museums and archives, such as books, articles (ARTO - Finnish article reference database) and theses
- Research.fi Publications of Finnish research organizations
- Julkari Publication repository of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health’s administrative branch (THL, FIOH, Fimea, STUK and Finnish Centre for Pensions)
- UEF eRepository University of Eastern Finland dissertations and theses
- SocINDEX sociology, social work and social sciences (Ebsco)
- Academic Search Premier social sciences, humanities, behavioural sciences and business studies (Ebsco)
- Child Development & Adolescent Studies behavioural sciences (Ebsco)
- Social science premium collection, social sciences broadly (ProQuest)
- Sociological Abstracts , sociology (ProQuest)
- PsycINFO psychology and psychiatry and related disciplines(Ebsco)
- Scopus multidisciplinary
- Web of Science multidisciplinary, (includes the SSCI ie. Social Sciences Citation Index)
Open repositories:
- SocArXiv / publication archive of the social sciences
- SSRN / social science research networks e-library
FinELib's website contains various services and tools for tracking open scientific articles: Alternative Access
- MOT KielipalveluDictionaries, translations and proofreading
- TEPA Term Bank Finnish terminology Centre TSK: collection of special dictionaries
- Edilex ja Finlex legislation
- Publication Forum JUFO, the scientific level of journals and publishers
- Reference management programs (UEF Library) Zotero and Mendeley
- Covidence (UEF Library) Tool for systematic reviews
- Guide for open publications searching (UEF Library) Guide for searching open access books, journals, articles and other materials
- Artificial Intelligence in information retrieval (UEF Library) Guide on using AI in information searching
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