Library's services for researchers

 E-materials and alerts | Evaluation | Publishing services | Information retrieval courses and guidance | Forms and contact information | Useful webpages

Information package on library's researcher services (PDF) (spring 2013) New!

Workshops on publishing and information seeking for researchers New!

E-materials and alerts

• NELLI
  • NELLI-quick quide
  • Remote access
  • Problems with remote access?
  • Terms and conditions for remote access
  • E-journals
  • E-reference library
  • E-books (Click E-books databases link in NELLI in the menu on the left )
• Journal title abbreviations:
  
  • Web of Science
  • Medline
• Reference manager RefWorks
  • Guides for Refworks in Finnish and English
• Alert services for Journals
  • EvidenceUpdate
  • JournalTOCs
  • ticTOCs - Journals Tables of Contents Service
• Guides for databases

Evaluation

• Evaluation of journals, impact factors
  
  • Journal Citation Reports (JCR) - impact factors
  • Web of Science with Cited Reference Search it is possible to check who and where has cited a certain article or author. 
  • SJR- ja SNIP-indicators can be seen in Scopus'list of journals (Sources). 
    • SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) is a prestige metric based on the idea that ‘all citations are not created equal’. With SJR, the subject field, quality and reputation of the journal has a direct effect on the value of a citation.
    • SNIP, Source Normalized Impact per Paper measures contextual citation impact by weighting citations based on the total number of citations in a subject field. The impact of a single citation is given higher value in subject areas where citations are less likely, and vice versa. See and article by the creator of SNIP Henk F. Moed: Measuring contextual citation impact of scientific journals

Publishing services

• Publishing services
  
  • Publishing a dissertation
    • Dissertations
  • Publishing a thesis 
    • Master's and Licentiate theses
  • Self-archiving/Open Access
    • TamPub-electronic publications
  • Tampere University Press
    • Virtual bookstore Granum
    • Bookshop TAJU
• SoleCris - Current research information system of Tampere University

Information retrieval courses and guidance

• Courses in the library
• Information servces at the University of Tampere library
  
• Make an appointment for personal guidance on information seeking (Book a librarian service)

Forms and contact information

• Acquisition suggestion
• Interlibrary loan and document request
• Information service order
• E-forms
• Library opening hours and contact information

Useful web pages

Support for research (University of Oulu)

Copyright in Finland

Instructions for writing in journals

Tips for writing scientific journal articles

Dr Pekka Belt, Dr Matti Mottonen & Dr Janne Harkonen have published a guide for doctoral students and researchers of all fields, providing tips for writing scientific journal articles. The guidebook attempts to provide tangible tips that have been identified as beneficial for writing articles. This guidebook includes learnings from over fifty journal publication attempts, most of which have eventually been successful. Dr Eva Braidwood, Ms Suzy McAnsh, Dr Riitta Sallinen and Dr Outi Toropainen of the University of Oulu language centre have provided important contribution to this guidebook on language issues in writing a scientific journal article.

Practical tips for doctoral students

Dr Pekka Belt, Dr Matti Mottonen & Dr Janne Harkonen have published a guide for doctoral students and researchers providing tangible tips for writing doctoral dissertations and scientific journal articles. The document aims to provide tips to PhD students in all fields, for writing a doctoral dissertation, and for writing scientific articles. The central focus is on how to conduct the work effectively and speed up the process. The intention is to enable researchers to rationalise their graduate studies and the writing of their doctoral thesis, while maintaining high scientific standards. The document is continuity for a document “Vinkkejä väitöskirjaprosessin nopeuttamiseen” originally published in Finnish. This English version is more advanced and includes acknowledging the received feedback from multiple scientific disciplines, as well as the feedback from the cases the authors have personally guided.

For further information on activities for supporting doctoral studies by the authors:

Group for improving the efficiency of postgraduate studies (GIEPS) (University of Oulu)