Databases

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Oxford University Press Premium reference portal Oxford Reference Online connects more than 100 reference works in different fields of science. Dictionaries (The Concise Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, etc.), subject dictionaries (Concise Medical Dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, etc.), biographic lexicons (Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of Political Biography, etc.).

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

Free access peer-reviewed journals on medicine and biology.

Official database of Estonian legal acts. The database contains the translations of Estonian legal acts into English.

The translations published in Riigi Teataja are unofficial texts – they do not have legal force, and you cannot rely on them in judicial or any other official proceedings. In Estonia, legislation has legal force only in Estonian.

Royal Society Journals is a prestigious collection of peer-reviewed scientific journals covering various disciplines, including biological, physical, and mathematical sciences. As one of the oldest scientific publishers, it offers access to cutting-edge research and historical archives dating back to the 17th century.

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) e-journals is a leading collection of peer-reviewed journals focusing on chemical sciences and related disciplines. It provides access to high-quality research articles, reviews, and papers from experts in the field, covering the latest developments in chemistry.

Access to RSC portal Chemistry World.

SAGE Journals Online is a comprehensive database offering access to a wide range of peer-reviewed academic journals across various disciplines, including social sciences, humanities, health, and engineering. It provides researchers with high-quality articles and up-to-date research, making it a valuable resource for scholarly work.