Estonian geology (Academic Library of Tallinn University)

The database contains publications on geology that are related to Estonia (research papers, articles from periodicals and collections).

Along with material from the Academic Library collections, the database has been built using the collections of the Geological Survey of Estonia and TalTech Department of Geology.

All records are indexed.

Development of the database started in 2001 and it covers publications from 1981-2000, earlier publications are available as printed issues.
The following publications have been issued:

  • Geology of Estonia : bibliography 1840-1959 / [compiled by E. Maier, L. Liblik]. Tallinn, 1960. 175 pp.
  • Geology of Estonia: bibliography 1960-1970 / compiled by Joosep Kari, Õie Oviir. Tallinn, 1998. 214 pp.
  • Geology of Estonia: bibliography 1971-1980 / compiled by Joosep Kari, Õie Oviir. Tallinn, 2001. 247, [1] pp.
  • Geology of Estonia: bibliography 1981-1990 / compiled by Joosep Kari, Õie Oviir. Tallinn, 2003. 414, [1] pp.

The database is no longer updated.

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Z39.50 is a standard international client-server, an application layer for searching and pulling data from the database. The search can be carried out in UTF-8 and MARC-8 encoding.

Connection parameters:
IP address: ester.ester.ee
Port: 212 (UTF-8), 210 (marc8)
Name of database: innopac
Data format options: MARC21, OPAC, SUTRS, XML

Via Z39.50 standard, it is possible to enquire by the following fields:
author
title
subject
word - fuzzy search across different fields
ISSN
ISBN
UDC
record number

The standard does not support the download of all online catalogue records at one time.

The guidelines in the form of a standard are available at: https://www.loc.gov/z3950/agency/Z39-50-2003.pdf

For pulling the metadata of one particular publication if the record number of the system is known.

The result gives a record similar to MARCXML.

Example: https://artiklid.elnet.ee/xrecord=b2865278