Databases

The Estonian E-varamu portal is part of the Estonian Research Infrastructure Roadmap, funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

The Estonian e-repository is an integrated e-environment created for digitized resources of the Estonian memory institutions: libraries, archives and museums. The e-repository enables linking national heritage collections with the Pan-European library Europeana.

Contains e-books from the publishers BMJ Publishing Group, Brill Academic Publishers, Cambridge University Press, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cornell University Press, CRC Press, Harvard University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, S. Karger Publishers, Lawrence Erlbaum, Marcel Dekker, Inc., The McGraw-Hill Book Companies, MIT Press, National Academies Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge, Royal Society of Chemistry, Rutgers University Press, Sage Publications, Springer/Kluwer, Stanford University Press, Taylor & Francis, University of California Press, University of North Carolina Press, Viking Penguin, World Bank Group etc.

EBSCOhost is a powerful online reference system that is accessible via the Internet. It offers a variety of proprietary full-text databases and popular databases from leading information providers (APA PsycInfo, ERIC, Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, Medline, etc). 

Library users who don't have credentials to enter the UT network can get an EBSCO username and password by writing to paring@ut.ee or calling 7375729 or 7375780.

The search portal for academic literature EBSCO Discovery allows searching through a single search box in several databases. It mainly addresses the needs of students and professors in search of new research information. Discovery finds journal articles, e-books, research works, and other materials. Search in EBSCO Discovery is similar to a regular EBSCO database search. Link Content Provider in the left-hand column of search results shows the databases searched. To get more exact results, it is also advisable to search these individual databases. Discovery works in the UT computer network, but it does not include all databases accessible to UT (Beck Online, WestlawNext and some others).

EconPapers provides access to RePEc (Research Papers in Economics), the world's largest collection of on-line Economics working papers, journal articles and software.

Open access peer-reviewed journals.

Emerald Insight contains over 300 e-journals from Emerald Group Publishing, mainly on economics, management, librarianship and engineering sciences. 

PS! There is no access to full texts of case studies.

EOD Search is the fastest way to find already digitised items or books offered for digitisation. EOD search engine gives free access to the full text of nearly 40,000 copyright-free books and nearly 6 million other books offered for digitisation for a moderate fee at the request of users. The items in 30 languages available via the EOD Search cover science, social science, history, medicine, language and literature, law, philosophy, psychology, religion and other subjects.

ERIC provides access to education literature and resources. The database contains more than 1.3 million records of journal articles, books, dissertations and theses, conference papers, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides dating back to 1966. Full-text articles are available only from the journals that the university has subscribed to. 

A freely available version of the ERIC database is available here: http://eric.ed.gov/.

Most electronic publications and data corpora in the server are in Estonian, which belongs to the Finno-Ugric language family. The server offers a wide range of information on oral heritage, folklore, and folk belief and on the institutions actively engaged in folkloristic research in Estonia and researchers and research projects. The covered aspects of folklore also include the heritage of other peoples of the Uralic language group. The server features two online and in-print journals since 1996: Mäetagused and Folklore: An Electronic Journal of Folklore. 

The Estonian Subject Thesaurus is a universal controlled vocabulary in Estonian for indexing and searching various library materials. EMS enables one to browse subject terms by subject fields, to search terms by English equivalent and to search by every term in the online catalogue ESTER, in the database of Estonian articles ISE or Google. 

Selected Estonian open access textbooks in the UT digital archive DSpace.

ETERA is the digital library of the Tallinn University Academic Library. In ETERA, you can find both old and new books, magazines, newspapers, photographs, postcards, maps, educational materials, and theses defended at Tallinn University.

Find, read about, and research all 7,111 living languages. Ethnologue is the ultimate source of information on the world's languages.

EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to:

-The Official Journal of the European Union;

-EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.);

-preparatory acts (legislative proposals, reports, green and white papers, etc.);

-EU case law (judgements, orders, etc.);

-international agreements;

-EFTA documents;

-other public documents. 

 Public Opinion Analysis sector of the European Commission.

International market and consumer reports database and provider of strategic market research.

UT members: If you would like to use the database, please get in touch with Hiie Villako (hiie.villako@ut.ee), Pille Naggel (pille.naggel@ut.ee), or Anne Kliimask (anne.kliimask@ut.ee). Once your email address has been confirmed, you will receive a registration link to create your own account.

European Sources Online gives information on the EU's and its member states' economics, politics and legislation. It contains full texts, overviews, legal acts and press releases.

Eurostat, or the Statistical Office of the European Union, is the main source of comparable data within the EU.