Info Guides: Learning and Guidance guide: How to start?

Learning and Guidance guide

Welcome to your online guide for information resources in education, e.g. teaching & training, counselling & guidance and special education. This guide offers starting points for your research. All e-resources are available to you online when you're signed in to Jamk network.

How to start?

Welcome to the wonderful world of database searching!

ERIC (EBSCO) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The ERIC database provides extensive access to educational-related literature: coverage of journal articles, conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. Plenty of full-texts.
Finna.fi Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Finna.fi provides free access to material from Finnish museums, libraries and archives.
Janet Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Find both printed and digital material of Jamk Library with Janet Finna. NB! When you login with the Jamk user account, you will have remote access to e-resources purchased by Jamk library.
Journal.fi Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Journal.fi is a journal management and publishing service provided by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. Open publications by Finnish scientific journals can be found at Journal.fi, a journal management and publishing service provided by the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. The site features over 100 Finnish scholarly journals.

Stages of information seeking

Compass of information seeking

Hey, are you looking for reliable information in your field? Take the Compass of information seeking for your use. You are welcome to discover your possibilities.

Information seeking as a process

For a start, consider what is your information need
Explore your topic (think up and outline)
Focus your search (familiarize and zoom in)
Refine your topic (frame and set limiters)
Collect information (search, locate and select)
Use found information (summarize, write and innovate)
Share your knowledge (refer, upgrade and network)
Ask for more and contact the Library!