Electronic resources, such as e-books, e-journals and databases, can be accessed through your own university’s Finna. Remember to log in with your HAKA username to Finna to access e-resources remotely as well.
By clicking the link you can browse the databases in University of Vaasa Finna suitable for the subject.
In Finna, you can see the description of the database by clicking its name or the arrow in front of the name. It is good to search information in databases' own interfaces because their narrowing options are often more versatile. Watch this video tutorial on the search function Browse databases for more help.
You can browse databases in Finna according to material types. By choosing your field as Category and E-books as Material type, you will find e-book databases in your own field. See more information about different e-book services in the guide E-books. You can also watch this video for help.
You can browse e-journals in Finna according to category. Watch this video tutorial on e-journals for more help.
Industrial Management & Industrial Systems Analytics
Smart Energy
Publication forum (JUFO) classification: Search for journals, series, conferences and book publishers that have a Publication Forum rating. The classification has three levels: 1 = basic; 2 = leading; 3 = top.
Industrial Management & Industrial Systems Analytics
Smart Energy
Electronic theses, dissertations and other publications of University of Vaasa can be found in the open publications archive Osuva. Osuva includes references, abstracts and full text of the publications.
Through University of Vaasa Finna, you can access MOT Kielipalvelu (Dictionaries), a service that include several dictionaries, a machine translator and a proofing tool.
The students and staff of University of Vaasa can access the e-resources of Novia University of Applied Sciences and Vaasa University of Applied Sciences on the computers in Tritonia. Material can be saved to a USB flash drive or printed.
Instructions are available in the Keenious Help section.
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Entering licensed materials into AI tools is only permitted if the terms of use for the material grant permission to do so. You can find the terms of use for licensed materials in University of Vaasa Finna and in the library guides. For more details, please contact: infoservice(a)uwasa.fi
Keenious is a versatile research tool that complements traditional academic databases. It can be especially helpful, for example, when...
Users at the University of Vaasa also see links to Finna in their search results, allowing them to access articles licensed to the university through Keenious.
There are several ways to search in Keenious:
When uploading a PDF file, you can also choose to analyse only part of the text (see the Keenious instructions for more information).
The search results will appear on the right, sorted by relevance. If a publication recommended by Keenious is openly available, you will see an open access icon and a link to the article. Click on the 'Check Uwasa Access' link to see if the article is included in the university’s subscriptions:
You can either ask Keenious to narrow down the search results, or you can use the options in the 'Filters' section. For example, you can filter by publication date, citation count or topic. You can also refine the results further by adding keywords to your search.
When you are logged into Keenious, you have access to features for further handling of search results: you can add article citations to a word processing program, save them as bookmarks, or export them to a reference management tool.
Clicking on the 'Cite' button allows you can copy the citation and paste it into a bibliography in a word processor. Alternatively, you can download the citation in RIS format and import it into a reference management programme (e.g. Zotero or Mendeley).
Clicking the star icon saves the item to your personal Keenious account bookmarks. To view your bookmarked articles, click on the 'Bookmarks' button.
Keenious can also be used directly within word processing software such as Microsoft Word and Google Docs. With the Keenious Research Explorer add-on, you can search for related articles or specific parts of text. Click the Keenious icon in your word processor to access Keenious features.
Staff at the University of Vaasa can access the Keenious Research Explorer via the 'Add-ins' tab in Word. Students can follow these instructions to access it. If you're using Google Docs, follow these instructions instead.
