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

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)   Resource contains audio
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Some full text available openURL
Catalogue containing full-text e-books from academic publishers, among which Vytautas Magnus University Press as well. Topics include history of philosophy, the most famous philosophers and their works.

eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)  
Multi-disciplinary database including different kinds of philosophy.


eBooks on ScienceDirect Restricted Resource Some full text available
Database on humanities and social sciences including philosophy, ethics, logic, religion and more.



KTU eBooks  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy studies. List of e-books.



MRU eBooks Some full text available openURL
E-Books on humanities and social sciences: manuals and other study materials and monographs in Lithuanian. Books can be read online. If you want to download and read books, you have to register and download program iPublishCentral Reader.

OAPEN Library Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy studies.

Online Books Page Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database with access to more than 3 million books. Topics include philosophy, ethics, religion.

Vilnius University eBooks  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy studies. Instruction.
 
Journal articles


Athena: philosophical studies Some full text available openURL
An annual philosophical journal issued by the Department of Contemporary Philosophy of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute.
The purpose of the journal is to provide a non-formal platform for high quality research in contemporary philosophy. “Athena: Philosophical
Studies” publishes original scholarly articles and research papers devoted to all kinds of problems in contemporary philosophy.



Cambridge Core (Humanities and Social Sciences Collection)  
Multi-disciplinary database including ethics, philosophy, religion. List of e-books.

Cambridge Journals Online (archive) Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, religion and more.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) Some full text available openURL
Leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in humanities and social sciences, including history of philosophy, philosophers and more. Registration required. Some resources are full text.

Cogprints Some full text available openURL
Archive of articles covering various topics, including philosophy.

Electronic Journals Library Some full text available openURL
The library of e-journals prepared by Regensburg University (Germany) Library. Topics include of philosophy branches and directions.

Foucault Studies Some full text available openURL
Žurnalas, skirtas prancūzų filosofo Michelio Foucault darbams nagrinėti. Pasiekiami žurnalo numeriai nuo 2004 m.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) Restricted Resource Some full text available
Database on humanities including philosophy, ethics, religion and more

Erudit Journals Restricted Resource Some full text available openURL
Over 150 scientific and cultural journals in various fields are presented. Current topics: philosophy, demography, psychology, sociology, religion, women's studies.


eScholarschip (California Digital Library)  openURL
A repository of scientific journals in various fields, final theses and conference proceedings. Topics include philosophy, religion, ethics, aesthetics, logic.



Filosofija. Sociologija / Philosophy. Sociology  openURL
Original research articles in the fields of philosophy and sociology. Philosophical and sociological articles are published as separate issues of the journal. The philosophical issues cover, but are not restricted to, the following topics: history of philosophy, epistemology, phenomenology, cultural studies, etc.


Focault Studies Some full text available openURL
International journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of the thinker Michel Foucault, often listed as the most cited contemporary author within the human and social sciences. Issues available since 2004.



HathiTrust Digital Library Some full text available openURL
A collection of over a million titles from around the world. Provides scientific information on philosophy topics.



Humanities International Complete (EBSCO) Restricted Resource Some full text available
Database on humanities including philosophy, religion, ethics, aesthetics, logic.

JSTOR  
Multi-disciplinary database including where you will find scientific publications about philosophy. Subscribed Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV collections. List of subscribed journals.


Kant Studies Online Some full text available openURL
The peer-rewied journal devoted to the study of Kant's philosophy.



Logos Some full text available openURL
The journal is mainly devoted to scholarly studies in all areas of philosophy. The journal also publishes Lithuanian translations of important philosophical texts. Scholarly articles on religion, art, and general cultural issues are also accepted.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO) Restricted Resource Some full text available Resource contains images
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. Photographs and maps are also available.

Oxford Journals Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophyList of subscribed journals.
 
Problemos Some full text available openURL
Phlosophical journal publishing original scholarly articles and research papers devoted to all kinds of problems in philosophy. The journal also publishes translations of the original texts, book reviews, and the chronicle of academic life. The submissions are subject to double-blind peer-review by two scholars.

SAGE Journals OnlineRestricted Resource Some full text available
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. List of subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophySubscribed journals Freedom Collection. Some resources have open access.


Science Research.com Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, religion, ethics, aesthetics, logic.



SpringerLink  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophyList of subscribed 2048 journals, archive.
 
Miscellaneous documents

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL) Some full text available openURL
Leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in humanities and social sciences, including history of philosophy, philosophers and more. Registration required. Some resources are full text.
      
Lituanistika 
International research database providing bibliographic recordsabstracts and full-text documents about the past and present of the Lithuanian statesocietyculturenation and language.

Europeana Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
Digital library providing free access to books, newspapers, images, films, maps and other documents from Europe’s leading galleries, libraries, archives and museums. 
 
Reference resuorces

Encyclopaedia Britannica openURL
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language online encyclopaedia.

Dictionary of Philosophy Some full text available openURL
A guide to antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times.

Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names Some full text available openURL
A concise dictionary of philosophical terms and personal names.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Some full text available openURL
An online dictionary of philosophy, launched in 1995, meets the highest academic standards.

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy Some full text available openURL
Comparison of topics in the most important encyclopaedias and dictionaries of philosophy on the internet is presented.
 
Theses and dissertations

VMU ETD Some full text available openURL
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.

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

eLABa ETD  
Final theses and doctoral dissertations of Lithuanian higher education institutions in the Lithuanian e-academic library.


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



Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)  
Final theses of world science and study institutions.

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) Some full text available openURL
Final theses of world science and study institutions. OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.
 
Websites

History of Philosophy without any gaps Some full text available openURL Resource contains audio
The website is designed to provide an overview of the main philosophers, as well as the ideas, lives and historical context of lesser-known philosophers, thinkers.
 
​Search engines


VMU CRIS Some full text available openURL
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. 

 VMU Course Reading Catalogue openURL
 Information resources recommended for study modules. You can search by study module code or title. 

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


BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio 
One of the largest search engines performing search in open access scholarly resources.



Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Some full text available openURL
Directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journals. Topics include philosophy, religion, culture, ethics and more.

FreeFullPDF Some full text available openURL
Scholarly search engine including different branches of philosophy, biographies and more.

Google Scholar Some full text available openURL
A scientific information search engine that searches for articles, dissertations, books, etc., published by scientific publishers, professional associations, universities and other research institutions.

Scite 
An Al-powered research platform. Scite analyzes and provides citation context for scientific papers, helping researchers evaluate the credibility and impact of scholarly articles.
 
Research analytics tools

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

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

Mendeley 
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  
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 
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

Alison openURL
One of the largest free learning websites devoted to education and skills development, covering a wide array of disciplines such as philosophy, politics, law, business, education, history, literature, and public administration.

Cousera openURL
Distance education is offered by universities and institutions on a variety of topics, such as philosophy, psychology, law, politics, administration, and more. With over 5,800 training courses available, participants can earn professional certificates and degrees. The offers include e-books, statistics, case studies, seminars, and other educational resources.

edX openURL
A platform offering a variety of distance courses and learning programs, providing information on philosophy, European politics, law, public administration, international relations, communication, and more.

Harvardo universiteto nemokami internetiniai kursai openURL
Harvard University's open access online courses on a wide range of topics including philosophy, politics, economics, law, history, education, arts, literature, public administration, and more. 

H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online openURL
A network created by an international consortium with the shared objective of improving teaching and research in the arts, humanities, and social sciences through the implementation of advanced content management and communication technologies. It contains a lot of useful information on philosophy, law, politics, education, history, pedagogy, art, and more.

Merlot openURL
A website that offers tens of thousands of discipline-specific distance learning resources, covering subjects such as philosophy, law, psychology, public policy, public administration, politics, communication, and other topics.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Course) openURL
Distance courses on various scientific topics, including philosophy, psychology, law, politics and more.

OER Commons openURL
A library of open educational resources, providing access to collections of open resources and other educational products that can be downloaded, shared, and adapted to your own studies. 

OpenLearn openURL
Distance courses on a variety of topics, including philosophy, law, psychology, education, public policy, history, literature, art, and more. 

OpenStax openURL
Books and textbooks covering a diverse array of scientific fields aimed at fostering distance teaching and learning opportunities. The content covers various subjects, including philosophy, politics, law, education, communication, public administration and more.

Pressbooks Directory openURL
Books and textbooks covering a diverse array of scientific fields aimed at fostering distance teaching and learning opportunities. The content covers various subjects, including philosophy, politics, history, public administration and more.

Stanford openURL
Stanford University's free online courses offer the opportunity to study new subjects, including philosophy, politics, business, public policy, public administration, law, philosophy, education, history, literature, engineering, and more.

 
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