Gathering literature for your thesis requires skills for information searching. Where to search for, how to perform a query? Revise and update your knowledge with open study materials.
There are several literature databases available, which one is the best for me? Check it from the discipline-specific services.
If you need guidance in information searching, you can book an appointment with information specialist. See discipline specific services for contact person in your field of study.
You can ask instruction for a small group of fellow students wrestling with similar questions. Send an email to information.services@uef.fi
You can easily access the material if it belongs to the library collection (printed or electronic). You need your UEF username and password when accessing the electronic material outside of the campus network.
You can always try your luck with Google. Open access publications can be reached smoothly.
Books and articles can be requested from other libraries, if the publication does not belong to your library’s own collection. Read more about interlibrary loans.
If the book you need is rather new and could benefit others too, you can make an acquisition request. The library may then consider purchasing the book for collections.
Did you know that there are programs available for managing the references you collect? These programs can also create a custom bibliography and even insert citations in your manuscript.
Zotero and Mendeley are examples of reference management programs. Read more about these programs.
Even if you don’t use a reference management program, always remember to save the citation information of your sources!
The citation style to be used depends on the discipline. Check Study communities in Kamu for guidance in your own discipline.
Thesis guides and other methodology books are among the most popular resources of the library.
Therefore, remember the online resources, for instance SAGE Research Methods. This link gives a quick glance through resources in UEF Primo.
If your thesis contains research data collected by yourself, you can consider archiving it for further use. This is worthwhile especially if the dataset is extensive and of high quality.
On the other hand, you might utilize research data the others have given in openly available. Read more about management of research data.
When your thesis is ready for submitting for an assessment, it must contain an abstract page with keywords given by yourself. It is wise to use a formal vocabulary for selecting proper keywords – the common language helps both information seekers and providers.
General Finnish ontology YSO is one option for a vocabulary. If you cannot find a suitable term from YSO, other terms are allowed as well.
Read more about the vocabularies and indexing tools.
You only need a couple of keywords – make sure that they describe the most essential content of your thesis.
The library will publish your thesis. You don’t need to do anything – the library will get the manuscript automatically when it is accepted and graded. UEF eRepository is the final destination of your thesis.
When you submit your thesis into UEF//e-services for evaluating, you are asked about the publicity of your thesis. We recommend the open access - your thesis can quite well be useful and of interest to other students and public.
In every October the library raffles off a grant of 100 euros among all the students who published their master's thesis openly. Sign up using this form.