Books Journal articles
Miscellaneous documents Reference resources
Theses and dissertations Websites
Search engines Institutions, organizations
Research analytics tools Referencing tools
Open educational resources  
 
Books

De Gruyter eBooks Restricted ResourceSome full text available
Multi-disciplinary book collection including democracy, politics, immigrants, elections, communication. 

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCO) 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, diplomacy, international relations, journalism, communication, mass media.

Ebook Central (Academic Complete) Restricted ResourceSome full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, diplomacy, international relations, regional studies, journalism, communication, mass media.

ebooks on ScienceDirect 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, public relations, journalism, mass media.

OAPEN Library Some full text available openURL
Academic books including politics, mass media, security.

OECD iLibrary  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, public relations, journalism, mass media.
 
Journal articles

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics,diplomacy, communication.

Cambridge Core (Humanities and Social Sciences Collection)
Multi-disciplinary database including politics,​diplomacy, international relations, communication, journalism, mass media. list

Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO) Restricted Resource
Article database including communication, mass media, journalism.

Electronic Journals Library Some full text available openURL
e-journals including political science, journalism.

Information & Media Some full text available openURL
Deimantinės atvirosios prieigos žurnalas. Jame rasite mokslinius straipsnius informacijos ir komunikacijos mokslų tema.

Internet Policy Review  Some full text availableopenURL
Open access and peer-reviewed journal on internet regulation.

Journals For Free Some full text available openURL
Open access e-journals including politics, communication and information science.

JSTOR 
Multi-disciplinary database including migration, politics, diplomacy, international relations, communication, journalism, mass media. 

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, international relations, diplomacy, migration, communication, journalism, mass media.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO) 
National newspaper articles, TV and radio news.

Oxford Journals Collection
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, diplomacy, international relations, mass media, communication. list

SAGE Journals Online 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, journalism, regional studies. list

ScienceDirect 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, public relations, journalism.

SpringerLink Restricted ResourceSome full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, international relations, communication, mass media. list  archive

Taylor & Francis 
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, communication, politics, diplomacy, international relations, journalism, mass media. Subscribed articles since 1997. list

Wiley Online Library 
Multi-disciplinary database including politics, diplomacy, international relations, communication, journalism. Access to 1700 journals until 23/09/2020.
 
Miscellaneous documents

Research Management System VMU CRIS Some full text available openURL
Journals, books, publications of scientists, profiles of scientists, ongoing projects, research departments, dissertations, final theses published by the University. Some of the works have an embargo period.

 eLABa Some full text available openURL
Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library, which collects and makes available to the public research and study documents and / or their metadata. Some of the works have an embargo period.

Bibliographic base of Lithuanian periodical articles openURL
Bibliographic records of articles in magazines, research papers, newspapers and yearbooks published in Lithuania in 1994–2002.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)  Some full text available openURL
Scientific database including politics, international relations, journalism, communication, mass media. Registration is required,

Council of Europe Online Resources Some full text available openURL
Council of Europe open resources on various topics.

Europeana Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video
Digital library providing access to books, newspapers, film excerpts, maps, photographs and other documents from national libraries, archives and museums in European countries.

Publications Office of the European Union Some full text available openURL
European Union database with digital access to the register of all official EU documents of the EU institutions and the EU open data portal. Here you can find reports, studies, information brochures, magazines and other publications of the EU institutions and other bodies on EU governance, law, security and defense, economics, employment, finance and other EU publications.

Internet Archive Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Global digital library, topics include politics, international relations, diplomacy, journalism, communication, media. Registered users can download books for reading at home for 14 days.

LiDA Some full text available openURL
Lithuanian Humanities and Social Sciences Data Archive.

Lituanistika Some full text available openURL
International scientific database covering research in the humanities and social sciences, the object of which is the development and present of the Lithuanian state, society, culture, Lithuanian nation, language.

Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) Some full text available openURL
Oxford scientific institutional repository.
 
Reference resources

Dictionary.com  openURL

Encyclopaedia Britannica openURL

Encyclopedia.com Some full text available openURL

Meriam-webster.com openURL

Thesaurus.com openURL
General vocabulary indicating semantic word connections.

WordReference.com openURL
Multilingual dictionary.
 
Theses and dissertations

VMU ETD Some full text available openURL
 E-theses and dissertations in the Research Management System VMU CRIS.

 eLABa Some full text available openURL
Theses and dissertations in the Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library. Some of the works have an embargo period.

DART-Europe Some full text available openURL
E-theses and dissertations in the European universities.

EBSCO Open Dissertations Some full text available openURL
Opem access e-dissertations.

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Some full text available openURL
Final theses and dissertations of world science and study institutions. Topics include philology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics, semantics, pragmatics, bilingualism, multilingualism, machine translation.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) Some full text available openURL
E-theses and dissertations.
 
PQDT Open Some full text available openURL
Proquest open access e-thesis and dissertation database.
 
Websites

data.europa.eu  Some full text available openURL
Official website of the European Union data

The Euromedia Research Group(EMRG) openURL
 Information on European media policy

European Social Survey (ESS)
Biennial international survey of the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of people in different countries.

Kanopy 
Video streaming platform. Among topics - media and communications.

Lietuvos laikraščiai internete / Lithuanian newspapers in the internet Some full text available openURL
All Lithuanian newspapers in one place.

Nubuntu.org Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video
Useful information for digital publishing professionals, bloggers, journalists.

Official Statistics Portal Some full text available openURL Resource contains images
Lithuanian official statistical data system.

Parse.hub Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video
A free and powerful web scraping tool for extracting data. Very useful while writing study final works.
 
Search engines
 
ResearchManagementSystem (VMU CRIS) openURL Some full text available
Scientific publicationsmaster theses and doctoral dissertations (ETD), university-published e-books and journalsscientists’ profilesprojects 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. 

 VMU Library Catalogue openURL  
 Books, periodicals, maps, manuscripts, sheet music, audio and video recordings, rare and old, e. documents, etc. 

Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) openURL
Scientific publications, dissertations and final theses of Lithuanian scientific institutions. Some of the works have an embargo period.

Lithuanian Virtual Library Some full text available openURL
Integrated search system allowing search in Lithuanian academic libraries and other databases.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Some full text available openURL
Open access e-science search engine.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Some full text available openURL
Catalogue of open access books including politics, international relations, journalism, communication.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Some full text available openURL
Catalogue of open access scientific journals including politics, international relations, journalism, communication.

Directory of Open Access Repositories – OpenDOAR) Some full text available openURL
Register of open access institutional repositories.

FreeFullPDF Some full text available openURL
Scientific resource search system.

Google Books openURL
E- book search engine. Partial keyword previews are available.

Google Scholar  Some full text available openURL
Search engine that searches for scientific production published by scientific publishers, professional associations, universities and other research institutions.

iBiblioteka openURL
Lithuanian integral library information system.
ResearchGate Some full text available openURL
Scientific information search engine and community for scientists.

WorldWideScience.org Some full text available openURL
Global search engine in the national and international scientific databases and websites.
 
Institutions, organizations

Eurostat Some full text available openURL Resource contains images
Statistical Office of the European Union.

Government of the Republic of Lithuania Some full text available openURL
Information on the activities of the Lithuanian government, ministries and agencies.

Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas / Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania Some full text available openURL
History of the Seimas, information on the activities of the current Seimas, public relations, international relations, the information system of legal acts and the register of legal acts.

Online News Association Some full text available openURL
Non-profit membership organization for journalists working in the digital space.

POLITICO Some full text available openURL
Global nonpartisan organization website. Here you can find information on polics, economics, media and other  topics.

UNESCO Some full text available openURL
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Vision of Humanity Some full text available openURL
A data-led perspective on peace, security and development, founded by the Institute for Economics and Peace.

World Economic Forum Some full text available openURL
Independent international organization, engaging the world leaders from politics, business and other fields of society.
 
Research analytics tools

InCites Benchmarking & Analytics (Clarivate Analytics) Restricted Resource
Customized, citation-based research analytics tool. Personal registration is required. For the first time you need to log in from VMU computer network and click on Register an email address. VMU email address should be used for the registration.

InCites Journals and Highly Cited Data (Clarivate Analytics) Restricted Resource
Customized, citation-based research analytics tool. Personal registration is required. For the first time you need to log in from VMU computer network and click on Register an email address. VMU email address should be used for the registration.

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

EndNoteRestricted Resource
Reference management tool. It is licensed together with Web of Science Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics) database. Register and log in with VMU email data. If you already have Web of Science, ResearcherID ar Publons personal profiles, you should use the same log in data for EndNote.

RefWorks Restricted Resource
Bibliographic information management program. It can be used to save bibliographic records of information sources; sort them into catalogs by topics or other attributes, edit, search for records; prepare bibliographies according to various citation styles; to use the text creation tool “Write-N-Cite” in “MS Word” and to insert references to the sources in the text and to prepare a bibliography.

Mendeley openURL
Free bibliographic information management program. It can be used to save bibliographic records of information sources; sort them into catalogs by topics or other attributes, edit, search for records; to prepare lists of literature sources according to various citation styles; use the “Mendeleyʼs Citation Plugin” in “MS Word” and insert links to sources in the text and prepare a bibliography.

Zotero openURL
Free bibliographic information management program. It can be used to save bibliographic records of information sources; sort them into catalogs by topics or other attributes, edit, search for records; prepare bibliographies according to various citation styles; use the “Zotero” plugin in “MS Word” and insert links to sources in the text and prepare a bibliography.
 
Open educational resources

Alison Some full text available openURL
One of the world's largest free learning platforms for education and skills development. Any level of subjects can be studied online.

Coursera Some full text available openURL
Free online courses from the world's best universities and companies on a variety of topics.

edX openURL
Various distance learning courses and programs, including information on communication, media, journalism.

Harvard University free online courses  openURL
Distance courses on various topics.

MERLOT Some full text available openURL
Distance learning and support materials, content creation tools websites.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course)  openURL
Distance courses on various topics.

OER Commons Some full text available openURL
Digital library that provides access to collections of open educational resources and other educational products that can be downloaded, shared, adapted for your own studies.

Open Textbook Library Some full text available openURL
The University of Minnesota and Purdue Multidisciplinary Open Educational Resource Library. Textbooks are free to use and adapt: download, edit and distribute.
Peace Academy Some full text available openURL
Nonprofit free world-class peace education studies.

Pressbooks Directory Some full text available openURL
Books and textbooks in various fields of science, for the development of distance education and learning opportunities. Including journalism, media.

Skillshare openURL
Dedicated to learning in various fields, including media science, journalism, communication. Use requires a paid subscription (monthly or yearly). The platform offers free small-scale video material that allows you to familiarize yourself with certain topics.

 

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