Resources
 
Books

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) Restricted Resource Some full text available   
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, food quality and safety, food raw materials, additives, food microbiology and toxicology.


ASABE (American Society of Agricultura l and Biological Engineers) Technical Library Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, food row, food safety.


BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including food chemistry, technology, microbiology, food safety, raw materials, food additives.

Directory of Open access Books (DOAB) Some full text available openURL     
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, microbiology, biotechnology and more.          


Academic Complete (Ebook Central) Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio    .
Multi-disciplinary database including food science. 
 

ScienceDirect  Restricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including food microbiology, chemistry, food additives, food processing, quality and safety.

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

Springer Link  Restricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, agronomy, chemistry, food science and nutrition

 
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, food science.
 
                                                                                          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  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, agroecosystems, plant protection, crop production and more.

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


ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) Technical LibraryRestricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including agroecosystems, soil sciences, crop production and more.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including food chemistry, technology, microbiology, food quality and safety, food additives and more.

Bioline International  Some full text available openURL
Registry of high quality research journals published in developing countries: biology, chemistry, life sciences, medicine, public health and more.
         
Cambridge Core Restricted Resource Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database. Including chemistry, nutrition, food industry.


Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database. Including chemistry, biology, food science.


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

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including food quality and safety, food chemistry and more.
 
HathiTrust Digital Library  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including food quality and safety, food chemistry, agroecosystems, plant protection, horticulture and more.

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

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

IEEEXplore openURL Some full text available Resource contains video  
Multi-disciplinary database. Including biology, chemistry, food science. Scientific articles, conferences, standards.


JSTOR (Arts & Sciences, I, II, III, IV kolekcijos) Restricted Resource Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database. Including food cience.


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

SAGE Journals Online Restricted Resource Some full text available  
Multi-disciplinary database. Including agriculture, food science.


Science Publishing Group (Science PG) openURL Some full text available 
Multi-disciplinary database including energy and environmental, material science, agronomy, chemistry, biology 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 agriculture, food science.
 
                                                                                  Miscellaneous documents

VMU CRIS Some full text available openURL  
Stock of electronic documents including university master theses, doctoral dissertations and other electronic documents.


eLaba Some full text available openURL​                                                                        
Final theses and dissertations of Lithuanian higher education institutions in the Lithuanian e-academic library


AGRICOLA openURL Resource contains images  
Bibliographic database of agricultural scientific articles and publications.


AGRIS openURL   
Information system of agriculture science and technologies. (bibliographical database)


Cambridge University Press  Some full text available openURL​   
Extensive high quality stock of academic content, including journals, research monographs, informational works and textbooks. 


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.

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) openURL Some full text available Resource contains video Resource contains audio
Quality-assured global directory of academic open access repositories.

 
                                                                                       Information resources

Britannica Online Some full text available openURL​ 
General virtual encyclopedia in english.


Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics Some full text available openURL​          

ezodynas.lt Some full text available openURL​  
Proffessional English-Lithuanian, Lithuanian-English vocabulary.           
 
                                                                                     Dissertations and theses

VMU ETD   
University master theses, doctoral dissertations and summaries in VMU Research Management System (VMU CRIS).


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


DART-Europe Some full text available openURL
Database of electronic theses and dissertations.


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

DiVA - Academic Archive Online (Uppsala University Library) Some full text available openURL​      
Master theses of wide range.

DSpace@Cambridge (University of Cambridge) Some full text available openURL​   
ETD works stored in Cambridge university stock.


OpenDissertations (EBSCO Publishing) Some full text available openURL​ 
Constantly filled database of open access dissertations.  
 
Websites

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) openURL Some full text available 
Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture disciplines, 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 ecosystems, climate, agriculture, green building, green energy and more.
 
                                                                                       Search engines

VMU CRIS  
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   
An integral one-stop search system that allows searching in the University Library Catalogue, VMU Research Management System (VMU CRIS), Suscribed Databases and global academic open access resources.

VMU Library Course Reading Catalogue  
Literature recommended for study subjects.

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.

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

FreeFullPDF   
Searching system of scientific resources.


Google Books openURL
Searching system of electronic books.


Google Scholar  openURL Some full text available 
Scientific resourse searching system searching for articles, dissertations, books and other types of data which were released by scientific printing houses, professional associations, universities and other scientific institutes. 

LIBIS  openURL​ 
Integral Lithuanian information system of libraries. 
 
                                                                             Institutions, organizations

The European Federation of Food Science and Technology. Some full text available openURL  
EFFoST facilitates knowledge and technology exchange among food professionals. EFFoST creates opportunities for food scientist, engineers, technologists, policymakers and businesses in food and food-related areas to connect and collaborate with the objective to enhance the uptake of new technologies and developments. 

European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video       
European commission consulting and researching food composition, quality and protection.

FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) Some full text available openURL 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.
 
Reference management tools
  
Mendelay openURL
Mendeley is a free reference management tool. This tool 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, and to prepare a list of references.


Refworks Restricted Resource
RefWorks is a free reference management tool. This tool 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, and to prepare a list of references

Zotero openURL
Zotero is a free reference management tool. This tool 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, and to prepare a list of references.
 
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.






 
Consultant

Gražina Šiaudikienė

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