ISE Social sciences

Compiled on the basis of newspapers, journals, article collections and serials published in Estonia.

Subject fields:

  • issues related to Estonian constitutionsl institutions and government agencies
  • Estonian legal system and legal issues, general law
  • positions, forecasts, expert opinions and proposals from interest groups related to laws and draft laws
  • Estonian politics, politics of other countries, politology
  • economy, incl. finance, banking, etc.
  • entrepreneurship, business, management
  • organisation of industry, trade, communication and transport
  • military matters
  • demography
  • social welfare, social work

As of 1 January 2017, the database is updated selectively

Search in database Social sciences

Supervised by: National Library of Estonia
Feedback: ise@elnet.ee

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