Periodicals is a collection of records of the online catalogue ESTER that contains newspapers, journals and magazines, and serials but excludes single numbers with an independent title (e.g. single numbers from transactions).
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