Educational sciences information resources

UEF Primo is a search service, where you can find all the materials that the library has acquired:  books, journals, databases and other resources - both printed and online materials.

In UEF Primo, it is also possible to search for scientific articles in international databases and other resources.

• UEF Primo

• National Finna - find here materials in Finnish museums, libraries and archives; theses in Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences; Finnish journal articles
• UEF eRepository - online archive for the university's publications. UEF Master's theses have been published online starting from the year 2012. If the author has not allowed open publication, you can access the thesis on specific computers at the campus libraries. Please, go to UEF Primo to find older UEF Master's theses
• Research.fi - service offered by the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture that collects and shares information on research conducted in Finland

• ERIC (ProQuest) - international database of education research and information, including ERIC Thesaurus, controlled vocabulary in the field of education
• Education database (ProQuest) - international database of education
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier - multidisciplinary database
• Scopus - large multidisciplinary collection, which offers also tools for analyzing and visualizing search results
• LearnTechLib - The Learning and Technology Library : peer-reviewed journals and proceedings of information technology and e-learning
• Child Development & Adolescent Studies (EBSCO) -  literature in development in early years, early childhood and adolescence

Other databases:

• PsycINFO (EBSCO) - literature in psychology, behavioral science and related disciplines, for example education and linguistics
• Social Science premium collection (ProQuest) - large search service in social science, including education and linguistics
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text (EBSCO) - sports and sports medicine research
• Web of Science (ISI) - multidisciplinary, including Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index. Limited choice of literature in education

• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
• Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI) (ProQuest)
• Arts & Humanities Database (ProQuest)
• Art, Design & Architecture collection (ProQuest) - search service, including Arts & humanities Database and Design and Applied Arts Index
• Social science premium collection (ProQuest)
• SpringerLink
• Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (Proquest)
• PubMed - citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals

• Databases in Domestic sciences in UEF Primo. A few databases in nutrition are available only in Kuopio campus and KUH network.

• SAGE Reseach Methods
• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences - search books and journals in research methods for example with search terms 'research methods education'

Find also in UEF Primo literature about research methods for example with search terms 'research methods education'

• MOT Kielipalvelu  - dictionaries, translators, proofreading and spellchecking
• Zotero and Mendeley - reference management programs
• Covidence and Campbell Library - help for systematic reviews. See the library's starting guide for use of Covidence
• Guide for open publications searching - tools for searching open access publications, selected by UEF-Library