Info Guides: Learning and Guidance guide: Databases & Journals

TOP databases

ERIC (EBSCOhost) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
The ERIC database provides extensive access to educational-related literature. N.B. The Thesaurus allows you to browse for subject terms you can use to search the database. Subject terms are assigned based on article content, allowing you to create a targeted search.
Thesaurus also available. --
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and research. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. Content includes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, dissertations and theses, and books dating back to 1966.

Video: Types of Materials Indexes in ERIC
Institute of Education Sciences

ProQuest databases (ProQuest) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
N.B. Change Databases > Select Databases: Education Database
ProQuest Thesaurus also available.
Coronavirus Research Database‎ -- Ebook Central‎ -- Music Periodicals Database‎ -- ProQuest Central -- Publicly Available Content Database.
ProQuest Central‎:
ABI/INFORM Collection‎ -- Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection -- Advanced Technologies & Aerospace Database‎ -- Agriculture Science Database‎ -- Arts & Humanities Database‎ -- Asian & European Business Collection -- Australia & New Zealand Database -- Biological Science Database‎ -- Business Market Research Collection‎ -- Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database -- Canadian Newsstream‎ -- Career & Technical Education Database -- ‎Computer Science Database‎ -- Consumer Health Database‎ -- Continental Europe Database‎ -- Criminal Justice Database -- Earth, Atmospheric & Aquatic Science Database‎ -- East & South Asia Database‎ -- East Europe, Central Europe Database -- Education Database -- Engineering Database -- Environmental Science Database -- Global Breaking Newswires -- Health & Medical Collection -- Healthcare Administration Database -- India Database --International Newsstream -- Library Science Database -- Linguistics Database -- Materials Science Database -- Middle East & Africa Database -- Military Database -- Nursing & Allied Health Database -- Political Science Database -- Psychology Database -- Public Health Database -- Publicly Available Content Database‎ -- Religion Database -- Research Library‎ -- Science Database -- Social Science Database‎ -- Sociology Database -- Telecommunications Database -- Turkey Database -- U.S. Newsstream‎ -- UK & Ireland Database‎.
Emerald Insight (Journals) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Journal articles in business and economics, education, library and information management, engineering, applied sciences and technology, among others.
SAGE Journals (Premier) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Sage Premier provides full text access to almost 1000 journal titles in the SAGE collection. Subject areas include engineering, health sciences, social sciences, humanities and biomedical sciences. Most of the journals offer access to previous volumes back to 1999.

DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.
CORE Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
CORE includes millions of open access articles. CORE aggregates research papers from data providers from all over the world including institutional repositories, subject-repositories and journal publishers.
OpenDOAR Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Directory of academic open access repositories.

OATD, Open Access Theses and Dissertations OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world. Metadata (information about the theses) comes from over 1100 colleges, universities, and research institutions. OATD currently indexes 6,171,277 theses and dissertations.

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Start information gathering up close

Ready for information search, head to Janet Finna, where you will find the printed and electronic materials of the Jamk Library:

printed books, journals, sheet music, recordings and multimedia
online materials such as ebooks, e-journals and databases

Log in with your Jamk ID for loan renewal, reservations and other services. To access the login page, click Login on Janet's home page. Enter your Jamk ID under Haka Login.

NOTE! When logging in, you will get access to the e-materials provided by the library and remote access as well. Other customers use an email address to renew and make reservations..

Below you will find three video instructions on how to use Janet:

Janet account
Janet search
International Article Search with Janet Database

Check also the last video on the evaluation of information sources and source criticism.

E-resource links

Theseus (Arene) Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Online access to theses and publications from Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences. Electronic theses of JAMK are available since 2006.

Elm Magazine Elm Magazine (European Lifelong Learning Magazine; ISSN 2489-5865) is a free online magazine on lifelong learning and adult education. It is the only journalistic medium of adult education with a European scope and with a continent-wide correspondent network. Elm Magazine headquarters is located in Helsinki, and the main publisher is the Finnish Lifelong Learning Foundation, KVS.
A-Z Database List
Browse databases in Janet

Janet Finna Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan
Janet online library. Access to print and electronic materials.

International Article Search
Note about the search results that you will have full-text access only to the articles, ebooks and other documents to which JAMK Library has purchased a user license.
Resources and user rights (FinElib) After clicking the title of the resource, scroll down to find the user rights in English.

Search engines and networks

Google Scholar Linkki avautuu uuteen ikkunaan Google Scholar provides a simple way to search for scholarly literature.

ResearchGate
ResearchGate is a communal service on which researchers can share their publications, read other researchers’ publications and communicate with other network members. Requires login.
ScienceOpen
ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network to share and evaluate scientific information.