Facta (encyclopedia)

{{Short description|Finnish encyclopedia}}

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| country = Finland

| language = Finnish

| genre = Encyclopedia

| publisher = Tietosanakirja Oy
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| pub_date = 1969–1974

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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.{{cite journal |journal=Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter |date=1977 |volume=46 |pages=52 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cyDpAAAAMAAJ&q=facta%20%20 |access-date=29 March 2021 |publisher=Association of Research Libr |language=en |title=Slavic and East European Resources: Finnish}} Editions were eventually also published on CD-ROM, and Facta finally lived as an Internet service, but was discontinued at the end of 2011 as unprofitable.{{Cite news |last=Tiikkaja |first=Samuli |date=2012-03-26 |title=Internet tappoi suomalaiset tietosanakirjat - myös netissä |language=fi |work=Helsingin Sanomat |url=https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000004864545.html |access-date=2021-12-20}}