Databases

A conservation and access project for historical printed materials related to cinema, broadcasting and recorded sound.

Over 7600 open-access textbooks.

MIT Open Press open access e-books and e-journals. Use the Free and Open Access content only filter in https://www.mitpressjournals.org/search/advanced search to find OA articles.

The MLA Directory of Periodicals, produced by the Modern Language Association of America, contains information for the journals and series available in the MLA International Bibliography database. The Directory covers journal articles on language, literature, folklore, and pedagogy.

The MLA International Bibliography is a database to search the content matter of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, journals, and books on literature, folklore, and language.

The database includes thesaurus used to assign descriptors to each record in the bibliography.

Museums Public Portal is the online gateway to Estonian museums, allowing everybody to study the collections of the museums that have joined the system.
Learn about museum objects by using the search engine or browsing the collections by museums.

The SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) under a NASA grant.

The ADS maintains three bibliographic databases containing more than 13 million records covering publications in Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics, and the arXiv e-prints. Abstracts and full-text of major astronomy and physics publications are indexed and searchable through the new ADS “Bumblebee” modern search form as well as the traditional classic search form. A browsable paper form is also available.

NPG is a publisher of high-impact scientific and medical information. NPG publishes journals across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine. Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly international scientific journal.

Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 196,012 CDs with more than 2,998,737 tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Over 600 new titles are being added to the library each month.

Naxos Music Library Jazz is one of the most comprehensive collections of Jazz music available online. It offers over 252,000 tracks from more than 25,500 record-length albums. Over 43,000 jazz artists are represented.

Naxos Spoken Word Library contains audiobooks in English, French and German.

The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 3000 operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, and musical tours of historic places. The database can be used by up to five users simultaneously.

OAIster is a union catalogue of millions of records representing open-access resources built by harvesting from open-access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes over 50 million records representing digital resources from more than 2000 contributors.

Open access e-books on humanities and social sciences from Open Book Publishers.

E-journals and conference papers of Optica. Optica Publishing Group's portfolio offers the largest collection of peer-reviewed optics and photonics content.

Osmosis is a learning platform created by Elsevier that provides visual and clearly structured study materials for students of medicine and health sciences. The platform includes short educational videos, self-assessment questions, and summaries that help users better understand disease mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment. Osmosis is suitable for both independent study and supporting teaching.

To use Osmosis, users must register an account with a @ut.ee email address.

The trial is open until April 30, 2026.

Oxford Academic provides access to a comprehensive collection of scholarly e-journals and e-books from Oxford University Press, covering a wide range of disciplines. Select "Journals" or "Books" from the top menu, depending on which type of material you are interested in. To view all the books accessible within the University of Tartu network, select "All content I have access to" under availability.

Full texts of articles are available from 1996.

The Oxford English Dictionary is a comprehensive historical dictionary that aims to document the English language in all its varieties from the eleventh century to the present day. OED entries describe the origin, meaning, and history of each word by analyzing evidence of usage from the earliest known to the most recent.

Natural sciences and socio-economical studies about the climate and climate change. The encyclopedia is regularly updated.