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Databases
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)


Multi-disciplinary database including social work, nursing.
Academic Search Complete (per EBSCOhost)


Multi-disciplinary database including social work.
Cambridge Core


Humanities, social sciences including psychology, sociology, social politics, education. Full-text. List of subscribed journals
Ebook Central (Academic Complete)



Multi-disciplinary database including social work. Ebook Central offers more than 120 000 authoritative e-books.
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection


Multi-disciplinary database including social work.
Health Source - Consumer Edition (per EBSCOhost)


A full-text database covering a wide variety health topics, like fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (per EBSCOhost)


A full-text database that offers a trusted source of nursing and allied health literature. Topics: pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.
JSTOR Collections


Multi-disciplinary database including social work.
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)



Multi-disciplinary database including social work.
MasterFILE Premier (per EBSCOhost)



MasterFILE Premier provides full text for over 1,800 general interest, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,500 periodicals.
MEDLINE (EBSCO)


Multi-disciplinary database including social work, nursing, medicine.
MEDLINE (per EBSCOhost )


Journals on the topics of medicine and helalth care, social work.
OAPEN Library


The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.
Oxford Journals Collection



Database includes academic and research journals published by Uxford University Press and it is covering a broad range of subject areas.
Science Direct eBooks


Ebooks by Elsevier covering various fields in science and social sciences.
SAGE Journals Online


Full-text journals by the SAGE Publications covering topics in business, humanities and social sciences.
Science Direct


Database contains the full-text of Elsevier Science journals in fields of Science and Social Sciences. Freedom Collection .
Taylor & Francis


Permanent access to ebooks published by Routledge that are covering topics in social sciences.
Taylor & Francis Online


Peer-reviewed journals in various fields of Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
Reference resources
Gerontologija

Journal published by the Lithuanian Society of Gerontologists and Geriatricians.
Highwire Press

Open access journals.
Socialiniai mokslai

Journal published by Kaunas Universitety of Technology.
Socialinis darbas
Socialinis darbas. Patirtis ir metodai
Socialinis ugdymas


The aim of the publication is to publish interdisciplinary research in the fields of social pedagogy, sociology, communication, educology in the fields of social sciences, conducted not only in Lithuania but also abroad.
Search engines
BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
One of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic web resources. BASE provides more than 150 million documents from more than 7,000 sources.
DOAB (Directory of Open access Books)
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
Directory of Open Access Journals.
Google Scholar
Search engine providing search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other websites.
Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa)
This search gate is an integrated search system allowing search in Lithuanian academic libraries and other databases.
Other resources
British Association of Social Workers

British Social Workers Association.

Association of Social Workers.

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