Places to start your journey

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Places to start your journey

• Viikki Science Library
• http//www.tiedekirjasto.helsinki.fi/english/
• Nelli portal
• http//www.nelliportaali.fi

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GOOGLE
NELLI PORTAL
News Statistics
Medline
ScienceDirect
BIOSIS
Critical evaluation required
Web of Science
CSA ILLUMINA
Books
Critical evaluation required
HELKA
LINDA
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Marketing of forest products in North America
Marketing Sales
North America United States Canada
Forest products Wood products Etc.
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Combining search terms AND

• Use AND-operator to combine search words from
  different concepts.
• Use AND-operator when you want all the search
  words to appear in the search result. This
  operator limits the search result. 
• Forest product AND marketing

Forest product
marketing
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Combining search terms OR

• Use OR-operator to combine search terms from the
  same concept, for example synonyms or broader and
  narrower search terms.
• The operator OR is used when we want one of the
  search words to occur in the search result. This
  operator expands the search result.
• Forest product OR wood product

Forest product
Wood product
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Combining search terms NOT

• Use NOT-operator to exclude a word from the
  search result.
• Be careful it may exclude very useful
  information by mistake!  
• Forest industry NOT timber industry

Forest industry
Timber industry
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Marketing of forest products in North America
Marketing Sales
North America United States Canada
Forest products Wood products Etc.
(marketing OR sale)
AND
(forest product OR wood product)
AND
(north america OR united states OR canada)
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Thesauruses

• Agriforest Viikki Science Library
  Thesaurushttp//www-db.helsinki.fi/eviikki/eVIIKK
  Ifreimi.html
• Agrovoc Thesaurus
• http//www.fao.org/aims/ag_intro.htm
• Thesaurus of each database, for example - CSA
  Illumina -gt Search tools -gt Thesaurus- Ebsco -gt
  Academic Search Premier -gt Subject terms
• - FSTA -gt Select Descriptors form the
  drop-down menu of the search box and click the
  icon next on the right
• - CAB -gt Search Tools -gt Thesaurus

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Thesaurus

• Ebsco Academic Search Premier
• If you Subject terms for
• corporate social responsibility,
•  
• you get a hint
• Use social responsibility of business

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Web of Science

• Covers all subjects fields (9,300 journals)
• Provides access to the following reference
  databases Science Citation Expanded (SCI)
  Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) Arts
  Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
• Citations search allows you to
• Navigate backward in time using
• Cited References
• Navigate forward in time using Times Cited

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Online Materials - Remote Connections

• User authorization for access to the libraries
  online resources is based on IP identification.
  University staff and students can access the
  online resources from any computer linked to the
  university network.
• Staff and students can also access the same
  resources from a home PC outside the university
  network as a proxy service just by logging into
  Nelli.
• Further information on the terms of use of the
  University of Helsinki online resourceshttp//www
  .helsinki.fi/kirjastot/english/online/rights.htm

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Online Materials Terms of Use

• You may print or download reasonable amount of
  articles for your own studies
• You may print or download small parts of an ebook
• You may not print or download large amounts of
• search results and articles
• You may not print or download an entire e-book or
• journal
• You may not give material to anyone outside the
• http//www.tiedekirjasto.helsinki.fi/english/teach
  ing/terms_of_use.pdf

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Information need
Information resource

• Reference databases
• do not contain full text
• may have links to the full text articles (SFX,
  SLinks)

Need to find everything about the topic
Need to find quickly some new material, no need
to cover thoroughly everything published on the
topic
Nelli Portal, Google Scholar
E-journal services of publishers - ScienceDirect,
SpringerLink
Nelli Portal -gt Find e-journal Helka/Linda
(printed journals) Google (search by title)
Need to locate a certain article
Helka/Linda E-books
Need to locate a certain book
Google, weblogs, news archives
Current topic
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How to find scientific information
Locate information resources Home page of Viikki
Science Library and Nelli Portal ?
eViikki, CAB, CSA Illumina, Ebsco, Web of
Science, ABI/Inform, ScienceDirect
Search terms Agriforest Thesaurus,
eViikki, Thesaurus of each database
Information retrieval in different databases --
AND, OR, NOT (Boolean operators)-- truncation
(symbols ? !)-- limit fields (author, title,
descriptors, year)
Save relevant references to RefWorks
Save good queries as an alert service
Locate good articles or books-- E-journals
Nelli -gt Find e-journal (SFX, SLinks) -- Printed
books and journals Helka, Linda -- Interlibrary
service of the Viikki Science Library
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Further information

• Viikki Science Library web site
• http//www.tiedekirjasto.helsinki.fi/english/teach
  ing/learningmaterial.htm
• Viikki Science Library staff
• Tieto-palvelu_at_helsinki.fi
• Information Retrieval Help Desk, 3rd floor