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Information seeking guide for the students of Business

Legislation

EUR-Lex - Access to European Union law

Finlex is an online database of up-to-date legislative and other judicial information of Finland. Finlex is owned by Finland's Ministry of Justice.

N-Lex - Access to European Law

Statistics

Eurostat - your key to European statistics

Findicator - up-to-date information on key social indicators

Statistics Finland

UNdata - a world of information

UNECE statistical database - country overviews, economic statistics, forestry statistics, transport statistics and gender statistics

Tulli - Foreign trade statistic Finland

World Bank - Enterprise surveys

Other resources

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine is a search engine especially for academic open access web resources. BASE provides more than 70 million documents from more than 3,000 sources and you can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents. Search tips for Base

European Small Business Portal

GEM - Global Entrepreneurship Monitor

PRH-logo

Finnish Patent and Registration Office (PRH) offers variety of services: apply, renew, or search for trademarks, apply for a patent, registered details of businesses and company search.

PSK Standardising  compiles standards that are required for the investments and maintenance of industrial mills and plants. PSK closely co-operates with the Finnish Standards Association SFS, which is the channel for publishing national SFS standards.

 

SFS-Online  provides a collection of SFS and ISO standards. There are publications in English and in Finnish. Start and click ONLINE and "Open Contract", after that You are able to search certain standards

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MOT Kielipalvelu® is updated on a regular basis and includes the following:

·      MOT Dictionaries®

o   English, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Italian

o   general language vocabulary as well as specialist vocabulary, for example from the fields of medicine, technology, commerce, economics and law

·      dictionaries by Oxford University Press

o   English, German, Spanish, Chinese, Italian

·      dictionaries by NE (Nationalencyclopedin)

o   Stora engelska ordbok, Svensk ordbok

o   more dictionary content coming soon

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o   25 languages, 597 language pairs

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o   proofreads texts and suggests corrections

o   supported languages: English, German, French

 

When you are connected to the organization’s network, you can access the service by simply navigating to https://www.sanakirja.fi

If you want to access the service outside of the organization’s network, follow these steps (same instructions in video format):

  1. Go to https://www.sanakirja.fi/korkeakouluille
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