Resources
 
Books

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)  
Multi-disciplinary database including modeling of water supply and sewer systems, environment protection structures, reliability of building structures, hydropower and more.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including reconstruction of hydraulic structures, technology of irrigation and drainage, wastewater treatment technologies, building legal regulation, optimization of civil engineering works and more.

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) including Academic Search Complete/ Environmental Complete/ Medline/ MasterFILE Premier   
Multi-disciplinary database including reconstruction of hydraulic structures, technology of irrigation and drainage, wastewater treatment technologies, building legal regulation, optimization of civil engineering works and more.

eBooks on ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including environment protection structures, urban hydrology, BIM, hydropower, inland waterways engineering and more.

InTech openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including physical sciences, engineering and technology, agriculture and biological science, wastewater treatment technologies, GIS, hydropower, engineering hydrology and geohydrology, ecology, hydraulic, agronomy, agricultural engineering, renewable energy sources and technologies, energy systems, transport machinery, triboengineering, mechatronic, agricultural mechanical engineering and more.

OECD iLibrary  
Multi-disciplinary database including reconstruction of hydraulic structures, restoration of water bodies, environment protection, ecosystem and more.

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 material science, agriculture, energy, chemistry, physics, ecosystem, aquaculture, engineering and technology and more.

Science Publishing Group (Science PG) openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including energy and environmental, material science, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, general engineering and more.

Springer eBooks Collections  
Multi-disciplinary database including restoration of water bodies and technologies, hydropower, hydraulic, environment protection, modeling of water supply and sewer systems, wastewater and more.
 
Journal articles

Applied Technologies and Innovations openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including physics, chemistry, biology, environmental sciences, geology, engineering, computer science, social sciences, business and economics and more.

Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences openURL Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including soil and water research, agricultural engineering, countryside buildings and related problems from ecology, energetics, economy, argonomy and applied physics and chemistry.

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO) including Academic Search Complete/ Environment Complete/ GreenFILE/ MEDLINE/ Business Source Complete/ Newspaper Source/ MasterFILE Premier/ Education Source     
Multi-disciplinary database including reconstruction of hydraulic structures, technology of irrigation and drainage, wastewater treatment technologies, building legal regulation, optimization of civil engineering works and more.

Emerald Management eJournals Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including hydraulic structures, waterways, building legal regulation, computer design of hydraulic structures and more.

JournalTOCs openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, electronics, hydraulic, engineering, envirionmental studies,soil, water resources, pollution, hydrology, ecology and more.

MDPI openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, water, agriengineering, civil engineering, marine science and engineering, hydrogen and more. 

OECD iLibrary  
Multi-disciplinary database including Hydraulic Structures, waterways, environment, water ecosystems and more.

Open Science  openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including material science, agriculture, chemistry, physics, ecosystem, aquaculture, engineering and technology and more.

Science and Education Publishing openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including energy and environmental, material science, chemical engineering, civil engineering, general engineering and more.

Science Direct  
Multi-disciplinary database including environment protection structures, urban hydrology, BIM, hydropower, inland waterways engineering and more.

Science Publishing Group (Science PG) openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including energy and environmental, material science, agronomy, chemistry, physics, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, general engineering and more.

Springer Journals    
Multi-disciplinary database including restoration of water bodies and technologies, hydropower, hydraulic, environment protection, modeling of water supply and sewer systems, wastewater and more.

SpringerLink Archive      
Multi-disciplinary database including restoration of water bodies and technologies, hydropower, hydraulic, environment protection, modeling of water supply and sewer systems, wastewater and more.

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

Taylor&Francis SHH Library and S&T Library   
Multi-disciplinary database including hydrology, water pollution and wastewater treatment technologies, water ecosystems, GIS, civil engineering works and more.

Wiley Online Library  
Multi-disciplinary database including hydraulic structures, building legal regulation, inland waterways engineering 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.

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.

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)  openURL 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

Construction Glossary from Home Building Manual openURL

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  Resource contains audio
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.

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 
Publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.

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
News 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.

IHS Engineering 360 openURL
The world's largest online destination for engineers, delivering the single source for critical engineering content, information, insight, tools and community for engineers and technical professionals across multiple industries and disciplines.

Lithuanian Standart Board (LST) Standarts Catalogue Restricted Resource Some full text available
Lithuanian standarts. 

OECD openURL
OECD’s statistical databases. Agriculture and fisheries, environment (water, waste, environmrntal risks, forest, land resources, agri-environmental indicators, ecosystem, green growth, energy), industry and service, transport and more. 

UNSD (The United Nations Statistics Division) openURL
The United Nations Statistics Division is committed to the advancement of the global statistical system.
 
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 Resource contains audio
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.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) openURL Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, technology, science (general), environmental sciences, engineering (general), civil engineering (general) and more.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) openURL Some full text available   
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, technology, science (general), environmental sciences, engineering (general), civil engineering (general) and more.

Google Books openURL  
E-books search system.

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.

ScienceResearch.com openURL  Some full text available
Search system for full text of e-books and e-journals.

WorldWideScience.org openURL
A global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world.
 
Institutions, organizations

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) openURL
ASCE stands at the forefront of a profession that plans, designs, constructs, and operates society’s economic and social engine – the built environment – while protecting and restoring the natural environment. Through the expertise of its active membership, ASCE is a leading provider of technical and professional conferences and continuing education, the world’s largest publisher of civil engineering content, and an authoritative source for codes and standards that protect the public.

Civil Engineering Portal openURL
Civil engineering focuses on the infrastructure of the world which include water works, sewers, dams, power plants, transmission towers/lines, railroads, highways, bridges, tunnels, irrigation canals, river navigation, shipping canals, traffic control, mass transit, airport runways, terminals, industrial plant buildings, skyscrapers, etc. Among the important subdivisions of the field are construction engineering, irrigation engineering, transportation engineering, soils and foundation engineering, geodetic engineering, hydraulic engineering, and coastal and ocean engineering.

Confederation of European Environmental Engineering Societies (CEEES) openURL
The CEEES stakeholders are active in the establishment of; national and international standards, codes of practice and the generation of educational material. 

FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) openURL Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video
Fisheries and aquaculture have the capacity – if supported and developed in a regulated and environmentally sensitive manner – to contribute significantly to improving the well-being of poor and disadvantaged communities in developing countries and to achievement of several of the Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to poverty reduction and food and nutrition security, environmental protection and biodiversity.

International Association of Geodesy openURL

Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment (hereinafter – LHMS) openURL
Forecasts, observed data, reviews.
 
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.
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