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Find more information about how to read and access to the e-books.
Terms of use of electronic resources.

A good way to begin your search is to use a dictionary or a specialized lexicon of terms (thesaurus) to identify suitable search terms or synonyms and broaden your search. Many databases include this feature, also called "Subject Terms", "Subject Headings", or "Descriptors".

Finto Vocabularies and ontologies (Finnish, English, Swedish)
MOT Dictionaries  
LCHS Library of Congress subject headings
MeSH Medical subject headings
ERIC Education-related terms
Finmesh  English-Finnish medical and health terms
Grove Music Online 
AFO Agriculture and Forestry Ontology
EnDic environmental dictionary

bab.la - Online dictionary for 28 languages
Kielitoimiston sanakirja - Dictionary of standard Finnish
RedFox Dictionary Basic - Free Dictionary includes 41 languages
TEPA Term Bank - Special language terms and their definitions, displayed as multilingual terminological entries
Your Dictionary - English words and grammar
Valter Government Termbank - Multilingual termbank, contains e.g. budget, EMU, education, taxation and court terms

ProQuest databases:
ABI/INFORM Collection  |Help| Articles database
Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection 
Business Market Research Collection 
Asian & European Business Collection 

Ebsco databases:
Academic Search Elite  |Help
Business Source Elite    |Help
Hospitality & Tourism   |Help
Ebsco Support Tutorials

Other article databases:
Emerald  

Company and market research databases:
Statista Working with Statista 
LeadCloud B2b. Kohderyhmäpalvelu - Finnish company information | Uses Standard Industrial Classification TOL 2008
Finnish Business Information System (YTJ) 
Enterprise Finland - Ministry of Employment and the Economy

Business, Economy, Euro - European Commission

You can find e-books in the Janet database (exception: Books24x7).

Books24x7  |E-books on information technolgy 
Dawsonera  |Help|Single e-books, mainly coursebooks at JAMK
Ebook Central (ProQuest)  |Help|E-books from various fields
eBook Collection (EBSCO)  |Help|E-books from various fields
Knovel |reference and handbooks, conference proceedings and other tools on tehcnology (e.g. food and environmental sciences, engineering management & leadership)

Google Books |Help|

Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH)
Espacenet
Patent databases
EPO (European Patent Office) e-learning centre
PATENTSCOPE database (World Intellectual Property Organization)

IEEE Standards  |Help| 
ISO Standards Catalogue |ISO website|
PSK standards
SFS Online  |Help|

Eurostat  Stastical office of the European Union
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Statista | A global market research database providing statistics, analysis, reports, surveys and breaking news on industries, countries and consumers worldwide
United Nations (UN) Statistics Division (UNSD) National Statistical Offices (UN)

Statistics Finland|Statistical databases |
Statistics by The Federation of Finnish Technology Industries 

Finna.fi provides access to the theses of most of the Finnish universities. You can find theses in the universities' library databases and digital archives, too.

Theseus - online access to theses and publications from Finnish Universities of Applied Sciences
Aaltodoc - Aalto University publication archive
HELDA - Digital Repository of the University of Helsinki
JYX - Jyväskylä University Digital Repository
UEF electronic publications - University of Eastern Finland
Jultika - University of Oulu repository
Lauda - University of Lapland's Institutional Repository
LUTPub - Repository of LUT University
Trepo - Open institutional repository of Tampere University 
Osuva open publication archive - University of Vaasa

NDLT  - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations 
OATD - Open Access Thesis and Dissertations
PQDT Open - ProQuest Open Access Dissertations and Theses 
Repository66 - Repository Maps
CORE - world's open access research papers (e.g. theses and dissertations)
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine

BOFIT - Bank of Finland
Centre for Consumer Society Research- University of Helsinki
Etla - The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy
FIIA - Finnish Institute of International Affairs

Finland Futures Research Centre - University of Turku
Finnish Food Authority
Finnish institute for health and welfare | Fineli - National Food Composition Database in Finland
Finnish Work Environment Fund - Finnish Institute of Occupational Health

Labour Institute for Economic Research
Luke - Natural Resources Institute Finland
TTS - occupational productivity and well-being
Valvira - National Supervisory Authority for Welface and Health
VTT Tehcnical Research Centre of Finland | Publications

International institutes
Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World | EDIRC
World Economic Forum

International research institutes in Wikipedia

See also:
BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
Core - world's open access research papers
EconBiZ - journals, working papers & conferences in business studies and economics
RePec - Research Papers in Economics
Valto - Institutional Repository for the Government (Finland)