Facta (encyclopedia)

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Facta
Language Finnish
Genre Encyclopedia
PublisherTietosanakirja Oy
WSOY
Publication date
1969–2011
Publication placeFinland

Facta is an encyclopedia in Finnish. It was published as a series of 11 volumes with more than 150,000 entries between 1969 and 1974. It describes subjects from a Finnish point of view. It was run by editors in chief Veli Valpola and Maija Numminen and published by Tietosanakirja Oy. [1]

Facta was followed in the 1980s–2000s by the Facta 2001 series with additional volumes, the 22 volumes of which contain approximately 100,000 search terms. [2] The Facta 2001 book series has also been published in digital editions, including the encyclopedia CD-Facta (1994) published on CD-ROM. [2] Finally, Facta (whose last volume was completed in 2007) lived on as an Internet service for several years, but it was discontinued at the end of 2011 as unprofitable. [3]

References

  1. ↑ "Slavic and East European Resources: Finnish". Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter. 46. Association of Research Libr: 52. 1977. Retrieved 29 March 2021.
  2. 1 2 "Hyllymetri tietoa yhdessä cd-levyssä WSOY:n cd-rom-tietosanakirjasta löytyy myös kuvaa ja ääntä" (in Finnish). Helsingin Sanomat. 1994-04-14.
  3. ↑ Tiikkaja, Samuli (2012-03-26). "Internet tappoi suomalaiset tietosanakirjat - myös netissä". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). Retrieved 2021-12-20.


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