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Thesauri and subject terms

General Finnish ontology YSO
General Finnish Ontology YSO is a trilingual ontology consisting mainly of general concepts.
Library of Congress subject headings LCSh
Find English search words by using United States Library of Congress Thesaurus.

MOT Kielipalvelu Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
MOT Kielipalvelu includes multilingual dictionaries and translation (kääntäjä) and proofing (kielentarkistin) functions. MOT dictionaries are available via the Sanakirja.fi service also by mobile phones.
Voit käyttää MOT Sanakirjoja® kätevästi kaikissa laitteissasi myös Jamkin verkon ulkopuolella – tilaa vain kirjautumislinkki Sanakirja.fi-palveluun MOTin kautta!

Jamkin verkossa: Valitse organisaatiolistasta Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu ja syötä Jamkin antama sähköpostiosoite. Saat sähköpostiisi kirjautumislinkin, jolla pääset käyttämään MOT Kielipalvelua® missä vain, milloin vain.
TEPA-termipankki Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Collection of special language dictionaries. Change interface language from the right top of the page. Link to the English page: https://termipankki.fi/tepa/en/
Ympäristösanakirja EnDic (Syke) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Environmental terms in nine languages.
Kielet: suomi, viro, englanti, ranska, saksa, ruotsi, latvia, liettua ja venäjä. -- Languages: Finnish, Estonian, English, French, German, Swedish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian.

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YourDictionary. Thesaurus Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Find another word for what you want to say. Over 2 million synonyms, antonyms, related words, and idioms.

In subject search, the agreed vocabulary terms, in other words, thesaurus is used
The search only targets words that describe the content of the publication in the database's subject field
Accurate search if the relevant word you choose covers your topic well
Useful and effective in a wide range of data, such as a large article database.

Enable different vocabularies and thesauri and enhance your search. You can find thesauri online, as well as in the connection of some databases..

Information seeking is a smart use of appropriate words, not information technology!

Finto.fi Thesauri The Finnish National Library's Finto service provides information seekers with vocabularies and ontologies.

Watch the video: Find search words from thesauri

Use Boolean operators:

AND (narrow) use when you want ALL search terms must appear in resulting publication or document.

boolen AND-operaattori

For example,with terms students AND well-being you will find information on students' well-being .

OR (broaden) use when you want ANY of your search terms must appear in resulting publication or document.
For example, search query well-being OR "life quality" OR welfare broadens the search and produces many results.
NOT (narrow) use when you want to exclude word(s) from your resulting publication or document.

For example, search query students NOT "open university" excludes the last word from results.