Info Guides: Health and Social Studies guide: Prepare to search and find

Thesauri for your use

A good way to begin your search is to use a dictionary or a specialized lexicon of terms (thesaurus) to identify suitable search terms or synonyms and broaden your search. Many databases include this feature, also called Subject Terms; Subject Headings, or Descriptors.

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

MOT Kielipalvelu Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan MOT Kielipalvelu includes dictionaries and translation (kääntäjä) and proofing (kielentarkistin) functions. The most popular MOT dictionaries are now available via the new Sanakirja.fi service also on mobile phones — for studying and free time use. Using JAMK’s network: choose “Jyväskylän ammattikorkeakoulu” from the organization list and enter your JAMK email address. You will receive a login link to your email to access MOT Kielipalvelu anywhere, anytime.
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.

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
MeSH is the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus.
MeSH / FinMeSH (finto.fi) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan MeSH / FinMesh : Mesh terms translated in Finnish & in Swedish inside Finto service
TERO - Terveyden ja hyvinvoinnin ontologia (finto.fi) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
TERO, the Finnish Ontology of Health and Welfare, change language in English : https://finto.fi/tero/en/
TERO on osa Finto.fi-palvelua. -- TERO is one of the thesauruses/ontologies in Finto.fi.

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
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.

Focus the search with subject terms

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!

find concepts related to your topic
look for exact terms as well as wider entities
also note other alternative or similar concepts

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

Combination of search terms

How to combine search terms?

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.

Health and Social Studies guide

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Thesauri for your use

TOP Thesauri in Health

Focus the search with subject terms

Combination of search terms

How to combine search terms?

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

OR (broaden) use when you want ANY of your search terms must appear in resulting publication or document.

NOT (narrow) use when you want to exclude word(s) from your resulting publication or document.