Agricultural Economics

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Keywords

Agricultural economics
Bioeconomy
Food Supply Chain
Green deal
Regional Policy
Resources
Rural Development Policy
Smart Rural Communities
Sustainable development
Sustainable Management of Local

Citation style

The final works are written in APA (American Psychological Association) citation style.

The rules how to cite content generated by Generative Artificial Intelligence tool (GAI tool) according to APA citation styles.

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Databases

Academic search Ultimate (EBSCO)

Multi-disciplinary database.

ASABE (American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers) Technical Library

Multi-disciplinary database.

Cambridge Core

Multi-disciplinary database. Full-text. List of subscribed journals. Non-commercial text and data mining (TDM) is permited.

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)

Multi-disciplinary database.

eBooks on ScienceDirect

Multi-disciplinary database. It is prohibited to use the content of the database for work with artificial intelligence systems.

EBSCO eBooks Academic Complete

Multi-disciplinary database. Additionally subscribed e-books.

EBSCO eBooks Open Access Collection

Multi-disciplinary database.

Emerald Management eJournals Collection

Multi-disciplinary database. List of subscribed journals.

InTech

Multi-disciplinary database.

JSTOR

Multi-disciplinary database.

MDPI

Multi-disciplinary database.

OECD iLibrary

Multi-disciplinary database.

Online Books Page

Multi-disciplinary database.

SAGE Journals Online

Multi-disciplinary database. List of subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect

Multi-disciplinary database. It is prohibited to use the content of the database for work with artificial intelligence systems.

Science Publishing Group (Science PG)

Multi-disciplinary database.

Springer Journals

Multi-disciplinary database. List of subscribed journals.

SpringerLink Archive

Multi-disciplinary database. List of subscribed journals.

Springer Open Access Journals

Multi-disciplinary database.

Taylor&Francis

Multi-disciplinary. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997. VGTU journals are available at http://journals.vgtu.lt/

Wiley Online Library

Multi-disciplinary. List of subscribed Full Collection.

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Books. E-books

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)

Catalogue containing open access books from academic publishers

Online library of open access books (OAPEN)

Google Books

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Journals. Newspapers

Journals in the VMU Virtual library

Newspapers in the VMU Virtual library

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

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Reference works

Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary

Glossary of Accounting, Business and Economic Terms.

Britannica Online

Encyclopedia

Dictionary.com

The world’s leading digital dictionary.

Encyclopedia.com

A virtual encyclopedia that allows you to search over 200 individual encyclopedias and reference books.

Encyclopedia of Business Case Terms

Encyclopedia of Business Terms.

Thesaurus.com

General vocabulary indicating semantic word connections.

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Theses. Dissertations

EBSCO Open Dissertations

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)

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Datasets

E urostat

Eurostat Statistical office of the European Union.

FAOSTAT

FAO Food and Agriculture Statistics Database.

FRED: Federal Reserve Economic Data

Federal Reserve Bank portal providing access to economic and financial data.

Official statistics portal

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Search engines

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

One of the largest search engines performing search in open access scholarly resource.

Google Scholar

Search engine providing search across many disciplines and sources. Google Scholar helps you to find relevant works across the world of scholarly research.

The Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa)

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Other resources

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics
An open access repository containing scientific literature on agricultural and applied economics topics.

FAO

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

O fficial website of the European Union

OKR (The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository)

The World Bank's repository, through which it assembles, distributes, and stores knowledge and research results in digital form.

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Academic writing tool.