Databases

Digital resources on the Estonian language (dictionaries, text and speech corpora, linguistic databases) and language technology tools (software).

The databases of EKI (The Institute of the Estonian Language) contain various resources on the Estonian language (dictionaries and linguistic databases).

A selection of De Gruyter e-journals and e-books (some are open access).

Dentistry & Oral Science Source covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry. The database is updated weekly on EBSCOhost.

DIGAR’s collection of Estonian articles aims to provide a unified web portal for all digitally created or digitised newspapers, journals and other serials published abroad in Estonia or here in Estonia and make them accessible.

The users are provided access to all newspapers published since 2014, journals and other serials published since 2017, and a selection of older newspapers. Every day, the database is supplied with new publications.

You can access older journals and other serials (published before 2017) in the digital archive DIGAR.

The National Library of Estonia’s digital archive DIGAR stores online publications, print files and digitised copies of publications. DIGAR contains books, newspapers, journals and magazines, maps, sheet music, photos and postcards. Archived publications can be searched via the e-catalogue ESTER and bibliographic databases created by the National Library of Estonia.

The Estonian University of Life Sciences digital archive contains:

The aim of the Digital Collection of the TalTech Library is to provide web-based access to the dissertations and graduation theses of TalTech and to the digitized textbooks and publications about TalTech history.

Digital Collection of TalTech Library is mostly an open access repository, but some publications, protected by the copyright, are available only in the university's or library's computer network.

The European Union supported the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (CEES) through the European Regional Development Fund in 2016–2023. The centre assembled 15 research groups with more than 60 researchers with a doctoral degree and more than 50 post-graduate students from the Estonian Literary Museum, the University of Tartu (from the sphere of the humanities and arts as well as natural and exact sciences), the Institute of the Estonian Language, Tallinn University, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and the Institute of Cybernetics at the Tallinn University of Technology.

Includes over 45,000 open access books & chapters published open access by 500+ publishers.

Open access peer-reviewed journals.

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.

The Business Searching Interface (BSI) is EBSCO's highly focused user interface, making it easy to find reliable and up-to-date information for academic and practical purposes. Business Searching Interface provides an easy way to browse and search for company profiles, industry information, country economic data, and market research.

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.

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.

The Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition Online is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for studying Islamic culture, history, and religion, covering a wide range of topics from the early Islamic period to the modern day.

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.

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.