Databases

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.

PEDro is the Physiotherapy Evidence Database, a free database of over 62,000 randomised trials, systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines in physiotherapy.

Collection of e-journals on the humanities and social sciences (Standard Collection) + open access books and journals. Use the filter Only content I have access to when searching.

Free access peer-reviewed journals on medicine and biology.

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.

Over 1000 books, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks, two major works collating a selection of journal articles, newly commissioned videos.

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

American Association for the Advancement of Science journals. Access to the following journals:

Science (alates 1880)

Science Robotics

Science Signaling

Science Translational Medicine

More than 100 e-books, encyclopedias, and handbooks are available in full text within the University of Tartu's network. To view the titles accessible to UT, use the filters for Books, Handbooks, and Reference works, and refresh the Subscribed & complimentary filter (toggle it off and then back on).

ScienceOpen is a freely accessible research network for publishers, researchers, and authors to share and evaluate scientific information. Aggregated open-access articles from a variety of sources are opened up for comment and discussion.

Bibliographic database of Elsevier Science publishers, abstracting more than 24 000 scholarly journals. This multidisciplinary database excludes only journals on the humanities. According to the publisher, the database contains about 80% of international pre-reviewed scholarly journals.

SCOPUS AI

Starting January 1, 2025, all members of the University of Tartu can use the new Scopus AI feature of Elsevier's Scopus citation database while connected to the university network.

This tool is based on natural language processing (NLP). Instead of using keywords or Boolean logic operators, you can type a question, statement, or hypothesis in natural language into the search bar. The AI will analyze your query and generate a response based on the abstracts of articles available in the Scopus database. Questions can be asked in multiple languages, but responses will always be provided in English.

For the best results, it is important to formulate clear and detailed questions about your research topic. The more precise the question, the easier it is for the AI to find relevant articles.
A comprehensive user guide can be found on the Scopus learning materials page.

To use Scopus AI, go to scopus.com, where you’ll find the tool located above the search bar.

Sinica Sinoweb is one of the e-databases supported by the National Central Library (NCL) in Taiwan after the Taiwan Resource Centre of Chinese Studies (TRCCS) was set up at the University of Tartu in 2021.

Sinica Sinoweb is the most in-depth, complete, and accurate research tool for Taiwan's humanities. Access the latest research in modern and oral history, philology, drama and art, Chinese literature and philosophy, and more. Read up on the latest archaeological findings from the prestigious Bulletin of the History and Philology Institute or access the Contemporary Neo-Confucianism Database, Legein Monthly, containing the most complete writings of the great master of Mou Zong-San (牟宗三). Sinica Sinoweb delivers these and more from the deep archives of Academia Sinica in Taiwan.