Information seeking in KUMU (= ethnology, anthropology and cultural policy)
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Databases
Finnish databases
is the Ä¢¹½Ö±²¥'s portal to various types of data. In JYKDOK you can find the most relevant basic information on publications, i.e. availability information (location and availability/reservation information), all books, journals, JY theses. JYKDOK also gives you access to materials stored in JYX. For history students the JYKDOK is not complete, some older material is missing from the JYKDOK. Ask for help at the library's helpdesk.
- Remember to also use the services and collections of the
- is a search service of Finnish libraries, archives and museums. Check availability at the JYKDOK for example by copying the title of the book.
- (former ARTO) : use the JYKDOK Finnish articles tab.
International databases
- International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition) (Elsevier): Reference work which attempts to map state, fields, history and methodology of social and behavioral sciences. Comprises articles and includes bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes.
- JSTOR: scholarly journal archive, fulltext articles.
- ProQuest's newspapers: for example
- : multidisciplinary reference and abstract database.
- : multidisciplinary reference and abstract database.
Things to consider about KUMU's information seeking
There is no database that covers KUMU's research well. You can search for databases that cover ethnology, anthropology and cultural policy to some extent by selecting "Databases" from the JYKDOK home page shortcut menu and entering for example "ethnology" in the search window.
Vocabularies to support information seeking
Your search for information will become more precise and efficient if you learn to identify the established vocabulary describing your research topic. A search using keywords will produce more comprehensive results than one based on a random search.
- : The General Finnish Ontology (YSO) is a general vocabulary covering all fields of science and knowledge, which brings together the most common terminology in different fields. YSO is intended to be used for searching books, articles, electronic material and other types of material. Established subject headings include (although not all are found in the YSO): countries, time expressions [e.g. 1900s, 1960s], names of people [Urho Kekkonen, , Erasmus of Rotterdam], community names [e.g. European Union], often also historical phenomena and events [e.g. World War II; Finnish War; Roman Empire; Peace of Paris (1856)], etc.)
- : launched in 2015, the project aims to map common terminology in the humanities and to make it available in an open database. A key form of collaboration is to develop interdisciplinary definitions and descriptions of scientific terms that are common to several humanities disciplines. The work will include mapping the current areas of use of common terms as well as the conceptual history.
- MOT or Redfox are not vocabularies, but these contain dictionaries from which you can check the spelling of words in different languages.
Data management
In connection with the Master's thesis seminar, KUMU's students will do an LIB1DATA online course in which a data management plan related to their own research topic will be prepared. It discusses, among other things, matters related to the collection and processing of personal data, as well as matters related to the documentation, secure storage and rights of the research data.
See also library's data management websites.
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