The catalogue describes official materials (lecture programmes, reports, rules and regulations, staff lists) of universities and academic institutions and collections of presentations and biographies of professors published before 1945, organised in alphabetic order according to the names of towns (locations of the institutions). For place names, see KNAB, Place Names Database of EKI.

The catalogue describes the Russian-language author abstracts of candidate’s and doctoral theses defended in the USSR, published 1946-1968. The catalogue is organised according to UDC.

The catalogue describes the Russian-language author abstracts of candidate’s and doctoral theses defended in the USSR, published 1969-1987. The catalogue is organised according to subjects.

The catalogue describes official materials of educational institutions published before 1945, organised in alphabetic order according to the names of towns (locations of the institutions). For place names, see KNAB, Place Names Database of EKI.

The Collection of Manuscripts is the oldest manuscript collection in the University of Tartu Library. It includes Western European and Oriental manuscript codices or their fragments since the 8th/9th century, charters, Baltic legal and historical sources, as well as other manuscripts in the field of history of culture and science. A number of manuscripts have been separated from The Collection of Manuscripts to form individual archival collections, e.g. Mscr. 971 → F 25 (Christiani, Titus. Personal archive). The sign of The Collection of Manuscripts is Mscr. On older slips in the catalogue, it is missing from the manuscript´s call number and only the number of the manuscript appears at the top of the slip, e.g. 294. The slip catalogue of The Collection of Manuscripts is no longer supplemented, all new acquisitions are described in the e-catalogue ESTER.