E-book databases

The University of Tartu Library provides access to several multidisciplinary and special e-book databases. The selection of e-books and reference works is constantly expanding, you can get a more detailed overview by filtering the databases by faculties and then selecting the type e-books on the left.

E-book databases:

NB! You can access full texts by the following links only in case you use the VPN connection. 

Ebook Central – a multidisciplinary database containing books from many different publishers; instruction videos on using this database can be found here.

Oxford Scholarship Online – access to 171  e-books from the Oxford University Press from key disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, science, medicine, and law. List of accessible titles.

O’Reilly (previously Safari Books Online)  digital library provides access to over 45000 technology, creative and business books and videos from leading publishers. 
You need to register with your university e-mail (@ut.ee) HERE to use this database .
From the Select your institution menu select Not listed? Click here. Then enter your UT e-mail address (@ut.ee). You will get temporary access to the database and in 5 to 30 minutes an e-mail via which you can create an account.
Outside of the University network use the VPN connection.

Sage Research Methods – books, articles and videos on research methods in social sciences. 

 

Reference works:

Oxford English Dictionary – online version of the 2nd edition of the 20-volume OED

Oxford Reference Online – contains more than 100 reference works on different subject areas by the Oxford University Press – dictionaries (the Concise Oxford Dictionary, The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English, etc.), terminological dictionaries (Concise Medical Dictionary, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics, etc.), biographical reference books (Who’s Who in the Twentieth Century, Dictionary of Political Biography, etc.).

Grove Music Online – the online version of the 29-volume The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2. ed), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2. ed)..