FINLAND  
Policy
initiatives
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Ministry of Education, Information Society Programme for Education, Training and Research 2004–2006

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Ministry of Education, Strategy 2015

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Ministry of Education, Development Plan for Education and Research 2003-2008

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The Information Society Council’s report to the Finnish Government: Towards a Networked Finland

 
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Citizen Skills in a Dynamic Civil Society – Citizens’ skills in the information society section

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Ministry of Education, Education and Culture. Annual report

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Citizenship skills in the information society

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Ministry of Education, Library Strategy 2010 – Policy for access to knowledge and culture

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A Wide Range of Culture and Quality Information Retrieval in the Library

· Ministry of Education, Education, Training and Research in the Information Society. A National strategy for 2000-2004
Research
 projects
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Curriculum Plan for Information Literacy

 
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Recommendation for universities for including information literacy competency in the new degree structures

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Question bank: a joint tool for assessing information literacy skills

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Web Searching, Information Literacy and Learning – Web-SeaL

 
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Web-SeaL - Team A: Searching and learning behaviour

 
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Web-SeaL - Team B: Information literacy and learning

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Towards meaningful learning of Information Literacy though a PBL course on educational digital video production

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InfoLit, Information Literacy Competency project

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Academic Information Skills

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TieDot - Creating web-based IR courses for Finnish universities

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Verkosto-Vatti – An academic study skills course for multi-university use

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Citizenship skills in the information society

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Tampere University Web-guides

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IRiX (Research Group on Information Retrieval in Context) projects

 
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Task complexity, information needs and use of information resources in city planning

 
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Characteristics of scholarly domains and patterns of searching and using literature provided by FinElib

 
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Enhancing conceptually structured terminological support for searchers of health information

 
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An integrated study of web image and text searching in learning tasks

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FIRE (Finnish Information Retrieval Expert Group) projects

 
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Journalist's learning environment for information acquiring

 
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Web searching at work

 
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Assessing learning outcomes in two information retrieval learning environments

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REGIS (Research Group on Information Seeking) projects

 
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Searching Behavior of Journalists: Information Retrieval in the Newsroom 

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Information Needs and Information Seeking Behaviour of Scientists

 
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Using the Internet for Non-work Information Seeking

 
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Web Searching in the Context of Information Seeking Related to Self-development

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Research at the Åbo Akademi, Department of Information Studies: Information behaviour in learning environments

 
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Information and learning

 
    ·   

University students' information seeking behaviour in a changing learning environment

 
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Information behaviour of medical students studying in the problem-based and traditional curriculum

 
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The changing role of librarians - a study in a polytechnic context

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Research at the Åbo Akademi, Department of Information Studies: Digital milieus and information behaviour

 
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Information seeking behaviour of scholars in the context of a research group

 
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Five decades of information seeking skills for customers in Finnish libraries

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Research at the Åbo Akademi, Department of Information Studies: Health information behaviour

 
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Bridges and barriers: access to and understanding of medical information among elderly Swedish-speaking Finns

 
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On information, media and health in a societal context

 
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Search strategies in searching health (medical) information on the World Wide Web

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The joint project of the information retrieval and management learning materials - open planning and joint use

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Hatchery - an effective approach for supporting the students' thesis processes

Campus
 initiatives
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Kielikompassi and the University of Jyväskylä Language Centre: courses and activities

 
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FINNISH complementary courses

 
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ENGLISH courses

 
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Degree-specific courses

 
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Elective courses - AEFIN

 
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Language and Society - Intercultural communication, cultural literacy and media

 
 
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Research communication courses

 
 
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Learning skills - Study skills and research communication

 
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International Master’s programmes

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Courses in English at the Language Centre of Tampere University

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Reading and writing in English for academic and professional purposes - Tampere Language Centre

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Reading and writing in English for academic and professional purposes - Helsinki Language Centre

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HANKEN - The Information Literacy Program

· Instructions for writing reports and papers at Hanken
· The ICT Driving Licence at the University of Helsinki: the information seeking module
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Courses at the Tritonia Learning Centre

Events
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Finnish libraries, pioneers of the new information society

· Seniors’ Communications Days
Special interest groups
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The Finnish Research Library Association - Committee for Student Services

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The Information Literacy Team at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

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Research Group on Information Retrieval in Context (IRiX)

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Finnish Information Retrieval Expert Group (FIRE)

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Research Group on Information Seeking (REGIS)

Academic
 library
initiatives
· Courses at the University of Helsinki Libraries
 
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User training at the Arts Faculty Library

 
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Information retrieval guidance at the Faculty of Law Library

 
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User education at the Helsinki University Library, the National Library of Finland

 
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Library training at the Library of Behavioural Sciences

 
·   Activities at the Undergraduate Library: training and projects
 
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User education at the National Library of Health Sciences - Terkko

 
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User education at the Viikki Science Library

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Information skills course at the Pirkanmaa Polytechnic

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Information retrieval courses at the Kuopio University Library

 
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Previous courses at the Kuopio University Library

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Information skills training at the Tampere University Library

 
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Innovations in teaching information literacy at the Tampere University Library

 
 
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Proficiency test for information literacy at the Tampere University

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Courses at the HUT (Helsinki University of Technology) Library

 
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New initiatives after Bologna and the last study structure reform

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Training for students at the Oulu University Library

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Library user education at the Tritonia Academic Library

 
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Information retrieval and information literacy: pilot project and planning

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Training at the Jyväskylä University Library

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Library training at the Häme Polytechnic Web Library - TILA

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User training at the Library of Kajaani Polytechnic

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Teaching of information management skills at the Kymenlaakso Polytechnic Library

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Training at the Library of Helsinki Politechnic Stadia

 
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User training at the Aralis Library and Information Centre

 
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User training at the University of Arts and Design Library

Tutorials
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Library skills tutorial of the Jyväskylä University Library

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Information Systems of Social Sciences of Sport

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Tervetieto – health information tutorial

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University of Helsinki – Undergraduate Library’s Tutorial

Learning
 Resource
 Centres
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Information skills training at the Tampere University Library

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Information Retrieval Laboratory

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Courses at the Tritonia Learning Centre

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University of Kuopio: Learning Centre

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Aleksandria Learning Centre, University of Helsinki