Databases

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LWW High Impact Collection

Peer reviewed medical journals by LWW publisher.

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Trial access available until 4 November 2026.
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MathSciNet (Mathematical Reviews on the Web)

MathSciNet is an electronic publication offering access to a carefully maintained and easily searchable database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature since 1940.

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Media History Digital Library

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

MEDLINE

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, pre-clinical sciences, and more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) indexing. Time coverage: generally 1946 to the present, with some older material.

Accessible on EBSCO platform.

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MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)

Over 7600 open-access textbooks.

MIT Press Open

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.

Modern Language Association (MLA) Directory of Periodicals

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.

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Modern Language Association (MLA) International Bibliography

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.

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MuIS - Estonian Museums Public Portal

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.

Nature e-journals

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.

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Naxos Spoken Word Library

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

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Naxos Video Library

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.

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Nikkei Asia

Nikkei Asia (formerly Nikkei Asian Review) is a Japanese news and analysis platform. It is a highly valuable source of information on Asian countries, covering developments in politics, economics, technology, society, and culture. It is particularly useful for obtaining objective information about developments in China. The resource also provides valuable insights into Japan's own development trends and offers a distinctly Japanese perspective on global affairs.

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O'Reilly

O'Reilly Digital Library provides access to over 45 000 technology, creative and business books and videos from leading publishers.

To access the database, you will need an account. To register, go to O’Reilly Library Access, choose "Tartu University" from the drop-down menu and enter your university e-mail address (@ut.ee). You will get temporary access to the database and, within 5 to 30 minutes, an email with a link to create your personal account.

OAIster

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.

OECD iLibrary

OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), featuring books, papers, and statistics. This is a free version, so you can read the materials online but cannot download them.

Open Book Publishers

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

Open Textbook Library

A database of open-access textbooks from various fields. These books have been reviewed by faculty from various colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

Optica e-journals and conference papers

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

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Oxford Academic e-journals and e-books

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.

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