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Vytautas Magnus University Virtual Library is an integral search system that allows searching in the University Library Catalogue, VMU Science Management System (VMU CRIS), Subscribed Databases and global academic open access resources.
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Databases
Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including East Asian culture, philology, translations, regional studies, history and more.

Airiti Library – TEPS Some full text available Restricted Resource
Taiwan academic journals. Multi-disciplinary. Full text. VMU computer network.

Airiti Library – Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations Some full text available Restricted Resource
Chinese-language electronic degree thesis and disertation service database. VMU computer network.

Asahi Shimbun Cross-Search  Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images 
Japan`s leading newspaper "Asahi Shimbun". Multi-disciplinary. VMU computer network.

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)  Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database. The widest range of subject areas including East Asian culture, religion, literature, politics and more.

eBooks on Science Direct  Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including East Asian culture, politics, education and more.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection  Some full text available Restricted Resource 
Multi-disciplinary database including education, religion, linguistics, politics in East Asian regions.

OAPEN Library Some full text available openURL
Academic books including education, religion, linguistics, politics of East Asian regions.

Cambridge Core Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including East Asian culture, art, economy. List of subscribed Humanities and Social Sciences Collection.

Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)  Some full text available Restricted Resource Resource contains images
Multi-disciplinary database including  East Asian religion, culture, history and more.

SAGE Journals Online  Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including East Asian politics, international relations, history and more. List of subscribed journals.

China Core Newspapers  Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images 
China newspapers full-text database Multi-disciplinary. VMU computer network.

Chinamaxx eBooks Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images
China e-books. Full text. VMU computer network.

China Statistical Yearbooks Database/China Data Insights Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images
China statistical databasis. VMU computer network.

Japan Times Archives Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images
Japan’s largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper “Japan Times”. Multi-disciplinary. Full-text.

LawInfoChina (English) Some full text available Restricted Resource 
English-language translations of key Chinese legal documents. Multi-disciplinary. Full-text.

LawInfoChina (PK University) Restricted ResourceSome full text available
Chinese legal documents. Multi-disciplinary. Full-text.

People’s Daily Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images
China’s most influential and authoritative newspaper “Renmin Ribao” (“People’s Daily”). Multi-disciplinary. Full-text.

Yomidasu. Yomiuri Database Service Some full text available Restricted Resource  Resource contains images
Japanese newspaper „The Yomiuri Shimbun“. Multi-disciplinary. Full-text.

 
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Information resources
Electronic Journals Library  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images​​
E-journals prepared by Regensburg University (Germany) Library include topics for East Asian Studies.

eScholarship (University of California, California Digital Library)  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio​​​
A repository of scientific journals, dissertations, conference proceedings, etc. in various fields. These also include sources on East Asian politics, culture, education, history and more.

HathiTrust Digital Library  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images
A collection of over a million titles from around the world. Scientific information in various fields is provided.

Hong Kong Institutional Repositories  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images
The Institutional repository of the Hong Kong Library of Science and Technology, which publishes research data, theses, articles, reports from eight public universities. Reviews, translations of philosophical texts are also published.

Japanese Historical Maps  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video​​
The East Asian Library collection of historical maps of Japan. Rare maps of Edo (now Tokyo), Kyoto, Osaka, and other Japanese cities are also provided.

Korea Science  Some full text available openURL  Resource contains images Resource contains video
The repository of the Korean Science and Technology Center, which contains articles from interdisciplinary journals. Most sources come from authorities, universities, institutes, knowledge services.

Master FILE Premier (EBSCO)  Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including resources for Asian studies.

Oxford Journals Collection Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including topics for East Asian Studies. List of 280 subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect Some full text available Restricted Resource
Multi-disciplinary database including  East Asian culture, religion, history. Subscribed journals Freedom Collection. Some resources are open access.

Science Research.com  Some full text available openURL
Multi-disciplinary database including East Asian culture, religion, history, East Asian art, literature, personalities, history and more.

 
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Search engines
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 Asian art, languages, history, politics, religion.

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 East Asian culture, art, economy, politics.

Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images  Resource contains video Resource contains audio​​
One of the best collaborative, peer-reviewed online publishing platforms in the industry today. Topics include Islam, human rights, migration.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)  Some full text available openURL
Leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in the Humanities and Social Sciences from and about Central and Eastern Europe.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR) Some full text available openURL
Quality-assured global directory of academic repositories. Access may be restricted by cache settings, such as those available on the intranet.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) Some full text available openURL
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.

Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa) 
This search gate is an integrated search system allowing search in Lithuanian academic libraries and other databases.

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) 
The quality-assured, global Directory of Open Access Repositories. Peer-reviewed articles, conference proceedings, books, course material, audio-visual recordings, research data, unpublished works, publications, reports, doctoral or master 's theses, etc.

 
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Britanica Online  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images
Encyclopaedia

Japanese-Lithuanian dictionary  Some full text available openURL

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

OpenDissertations (EBSCO Publishing)  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).

NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) Some full text available openURL
Final theses and dissertations of world science and study institutions.

CrossAsia  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images​​
Database of Asian Studies prepared by the German National Library. Choose the CrossAsia Fulltext Search collection to search for full-text documents.

Voice of the Shuttle  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video
Publicly available since 1995, links to humanitarian resources online.

Internet Archive  Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains video Resource contains audio​​
World Digital Library. Resources of various types and disciplines are provided.

Europeana Some full text available openURL Resource contains images Resource contains audio Resource contains video
A digital library providing access to books, newspapers, film excerpts, maps, photographs and other documents from national libraries, archives and museums in European countries. Copyright and/or related rights to the object apply. Topics include East Asian art, history, economics, politics and more.