Resources
 
Books
 
Academic Complete (Ebook Central) Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, agroecosystems, crop production, agrobiotechnology, landscape design and more.


ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) Technical Library Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including soil science, agroecosystems, food chemistry and more.

eBooks on ScienceDirect  Restricted Resource Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, plant protection, crop science, landscape designe, ecological food products, food chemistry and more.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection   Restricted Resource Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, crop production, plant protection, animal husbandry and more.

FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)  openURL Some full text available 
Publications of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Online Books Page  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database. About 3 mln. books.


Open Science   openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, crop production, plant protection, ecosystems and more.


Science Publishing Group (Science PG)   Some full text available openURL   
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, food safety and quality, biology, chemistry and more.

Springer EBooks Collections Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, crop production, plant protection and nutrition, biology systems, food quality and more.

 
Journals, articles

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO Publishing) Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
Multi-disciplinary database including  agriculture, agroecosystems, crop production, agrobiotechnology, landscape design and more.


AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, agroecosystems, plant protection, crop production and more.


Agronomy openURL Some full text available 
It is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal published monthly online by MDPI.


Applied Technologies and Innovations openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including plant protection and nutrition, soil sciences, crop production, nutrition and food safety and more.

ARAN (National University of Ireland Galway)  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, crop production, plant protection and nutrition and more.
 
Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, soil sciences, crop production and more.


Bioline International openURL Some full text available 
It is a not-for-profit scholarly publishing cooperative committed to providing open access to quality research journals published in developing countries.


CERES (Cranfield Collection of E-Research) openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including soil sciences, crop production, gardening, landscape designe  and more.


Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including soil sciences, plant protection, horticulture and more.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  openURL Some full text available Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
Multi-disciplinary database including soil science, plant nutrition and protection, crop production, landscape design, ecology and more.

Electronic Journals Library   openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, landscape design and more.
  Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, impact of agricultural activities on environment, soil sciences, plant protection, horticulture, animal husbandry and more.


Hindawi  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, biology, biotechnology, pestology, plant genetics and more.


ICRISAT openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including  crop production, plant protection, botany, chemistry and more.

  
MDPI  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, agronomy, biotechnology and more.


Open Science openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, biology, chemistry, ecosystems, forestry and more.

Oxford Journals Open Access openURL Some full text available 
This collection includes Open Access articles from academic and research journals provided by Oxford, all available free of charge.

Science and Education Publishing  openURL  Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including ecology, plant biology, environmental protection, forestry, agriculture and more. 

ScienceDirect Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, agrobiotechnology, plant protection, gardening and horticulture, soil science, landscape design, animal husbandry and more.
 
Science Publishing Group (Science PG) openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including energy and environmental, material science, agronomy, chemistry, biology and more.


SpringerLink Restricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, food science, biotechnology, plant ecology  and more.


Springer Open Access Journals openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database


Taylor&Francis SHH Library and S&T Library Restricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including soil science, crop production, food sciences and nutrition, landscape design and more.


Wiley Online Library Restricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including agrosystems, soil science, plant nutrition, crop science, gardening and horticulture, landscape design and more.
 
Miscellaneous documents


Research Management system (VMU CRIS) openURL Some full text available 
Scientific publications, master theses and doctoral dissertations (ETD), university-published e-books and journals, scientists’ profiles, projects and other documents. Some of the works have an embargo period.


Edinburgh Research Archive (University of Edinburgh) openURL Some full text available 
This collection provides the research found in the digital repository produced at the University of Edinburgh, including theses and dissertations, working papers, technical reports, and peer-reviewed journal reprints, among other publications. Topics covered include a full range of academic disciplines.


The Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) openURL Some full text available 

Scientific publications, dissertations and final theses of Lithuanian scientific institutions. Some of the works have an embargo period.


Norwegian Open Research Archives (NORA) openURL Some full text available 
NORA aggregates scholarly content from over 50 Norwegian archives. It is a collaboration between the university libraries at the University of Bergen, NTNU, University of Troms? with funding from the Norwegian Digital Library.

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
Quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories.


The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) openURL 
Research outputs and knowledge products.
 
Reference resources

Britannica Online openURL Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
Encyclopedia


Dictionary.com openURL Resource contains audio 
Virtual dictionary.


Eurovoc  openURL
Multilingual thesaurus.


Thesaurus.com  openURL
General vocabulary indicating semantic word connections.

 
Theses and dissertations

VMU ETD openURL Some full text available   
University master theses, doctoral dissertations and their summaries in VMU Research Management System (VMU CRIS).


DART-Europe E-theses Portal  openURL Some full text available 
E-theses and dissertations containing over 800,000 open access papers from 619 universities in 28 European countries.


Digital Dissertations openURL Some full text available 
The collection includes dissertations submitted to LMU Muenchen. Subject areas cover a range of academic interests with an emphasis on Biology and Medicine.

eLABa ETD openURL Some full text available 
Final theses and doctoral dissertations of Lithuanian higher education institutions in the Lithuanian e-academic library.


NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Disertations)  openURL Some full text available 
Final theses of world science and study institutions.


OpenDissertations (EBSCO Publishing)  openURL Some full text available 
More than 1.2 million e- theses and dissertations from around the world (from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day).

 
Websites


AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) openURL Some full text available 
Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition earth and environmental sciences and more.


AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standart) openURL 
The Agricultural Information Management Standards Portal (AIMS) of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gathers information on (and access to) standards, technology and best practices. It is also a forum connecting information management workers around the world to discuss open access and open data. 


Environmental News Network openURL 
New about flood risk, ecosystems, climate, energy, pollution, agriculture, green building, green energy and more.

FAOSTAT openURL 
FAOSTAT provides free access to food and agriculture data for over 245 countries and territories and covers all FAO regional groupings from 1961 to the most recent year available.


 
Search engines

Research Management system (VMU CRIS) openURL Some full text available 
Scientific publications, master theses and doctoral dissertations (ETD), university-published e-books and journals, scientists’ profiles, projects and other documents. Some of the works have an embargo period.


VMU Virtual Library openURL
An integrated one-stop search system that allows searching the University Library catalog, VMU Science Management System (VMU CRIS), subscribed databases, Lithuanian Academic Library (eLABa) and global academic open access resources. Some of the works have an embargo period.


BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) openURL Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video  
One of the largest search engines performing search in open access scholarly resources.
 
CORE openURL 
The world’s largest collection of open access research papers.

DataCite 
DataCite support researchers by helping them to find, identify, and cite research datasets. It assigns persistent identifiers to citable datasets. All DataCite DOIs resolve to a public landing page that contains information about the associated dataset and a direct link to the dataset itself. A wide range of organizations contribute records to the DataCite Metadata Store.

Google Books openURL
Search full text of e-books.


Google Scholar openURL Some full text available 
A scientific information search engine that searches for articles, dissertations, books, etc., published by scientific publishers, professional associations, universities and other research institutions
 
The Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) openURL Some full text available 
Scientific publications, dissertations and final theses of Lithuanian scientific institutions. Some of the works have an embargo period.
 
 
 
Institutions, organizations


FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) openURL Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video 
 

The Lithuanian Institute of Agrarian Economics  openURL Some full text available 
Field of activities of the Institute is to implement scientific research and experimental (social) development in the social sciences field of agricultural, food and fishery economy and rural development in Lithuania.

 
Research analytics tools
 
InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (Clarivate Analytics) Restricted Resource 
Customized, citation-based research analytics tool.

InCites Journals and Highly Cited Data (Clarivate Analytics) Restricted Resource 
Customized, citation-based research analytics tool.

Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Restricted Resource 
Customized, citation-based research analytics tool.

 
Referencing tools

Mendelay openURL
Reference management tool that allows to save bibliographic references of information sources; to organize them into folders according to topics or other features, to edit them and perform a record search; to compile lists of references according to different citation styles; to use Mendeley’s Citation Plugin in the MS Word program to insert references to sources in the text.


Refworks Restricted Resource
Reference management tool that allows to save bibliographic references of information sources; to organize them into folders according to topics or other features, to edit them and perform a record search; to compile lists of references according to different citation styles; to use Write-N-Cite tool for citing and referencing in the MS Word program to insert references to sources in the text.


Zotero openURL
Reference management tool that allows to save bibliographic references of information sources; to organize them into folders according to topics or other features, to edit them and perform a record search; to compile lists of references according to different citation styles; to use Zotero plugin in the MS Word program to insert references to sources in the text.
Open educational resources

Coursera
Start, switch, or advance your career with more than 5,800 courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees from world-class universities and companies.
OER commons
A multi-subject digital library providing access to open collections of educational resources and other educational products that can be downloaded, shared, adapted.

 
Librarians

Gražina Šiaudikienė

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