Economics and Finance

Leonidas Donskis Library
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Economics
Behavioral economics
Finance
Financial behavior
International economy

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Description of the use of text generated by the GDI tool according to APA citation style.

Research Assistant VL	Research Assistant – an AI tool in the VMU virtual library. It responds to user queries by analyzing sources indexed in the virtual library and provides them with citations indicating the source of each part of the response.
ChatGPT	An AI language model that generates human-like responses to queries. It can be used to create teaching materials, personalize the learning process and develop students critical thinking skills. The free version has limitations (e.g., limited DALL-E – a model for translating text into images – functions), while the paid version provides access to the latest and more powerful models (e.g., GPT-5 Pro) and faster response generation.
Elicit	An AI research assistant that helps review literature and academic works, systematize data, automate article selection and extract data. The free version offers unlimited searches, summaries and reports (up to 4 documents at a time), while in the paid "Plus" / "Pro" versions, the number of abstracts increases to 8 documents at a time and unlimited export of data tables to CSV/BIB/RIS formats, more detailed document previews and notifications with the latest information on research in the selected field are also provided.
Gemini	An AI language model that generates human-like responses to queries. "Deep Research" allows you to browse websites, analyze information and create detailed reports, while "Gemini Live" allows you to create learning plans, topic summaries and practice presentations. The paid versions, "Google AI Pro" and "Google AI Ultra", provide access to the more powerful "2.5 Pro" model, more accurate and faster "Deep Research", video generation with "Veo 3" and more options with the "NotebookLM" research and writing assistant.
Keenious	An AI academic research tool designed to help students and researchers find scientific literature. It analyzes the uploaded document and, using interdisciplinary methods, recommends similar or related scientific articles. Provides access to more than 250 million academic works. The free version provides access to all search results and unlimited chats, while the paid version provides full access with a university or organization license (access for students/employees, interface with library resources, training and webinars offered).
Litmaps	A tool for scientific literature research. Creates a visual map of academic literature, finds related sources on a selected topic from more than 270 million resources. The free version provides access to basic search, up to 20 queries and 2 visual maps, while the paid "Pro" and "Teams" versions offer advanced search and an unlimited number of articles and visual maps to analyze.
Perplexity	AI search engine and chatbot. Provides links to sources used for the answer and related thematic questions. The free version offers basic search, limited "Pro" and file upload features (up to 3 files per day), while the paid version provides access to more powerful AI models, unlimited visual generation, file uploads and analysis.
Research Rabbit	AI tool for academic research and literature reviews. Categorizes academic works into thematic sections (collections), creates an interactive visual map based on the selected topic and shows citation tendencies for academic works. All available features are free of charge.
SciSpace	AI assistant that helps manage, write and publish academic works, analyze and visualize data and create websites or presentations.  The free version offers up to 30 query views, 5 bibliography downloads, suggestions and integrated spell checking, while the paid versions, "Researcher" and "Teams", offer unlimited queries and downloads, security and faster support.
Scite	An AI platform that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles using smart citations. Evaluates the reliability and impact of scientific articles, discovers important and contradictory evidence, improves research results. The free version offers a DI assistant function, full-text search, citation reports, while the paid version provides full access with a university or organization license (more powerful DI models and their capabilities, data export and analysis, higher security and confidentiality levels).
Semantic Scholar	An AI academic research search engine that uses machine learning to identify connections, relevance and key findings in scientific articles. All available features are free of charge.

 

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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

Business Source Ultimate (EBSCO)  
E-books on economics and finance.

Cambridge Core  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance. List of subscribed Humanities and Social Sciences Collection.

De Gruyter eBooks  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy of economics, finance and banking. List of eBooks.

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)     
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

eBooks on ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

EBSCO eBook Open Access Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

Emerald Management eJournals Collection  
List of subscribed journals.

HathiTrust Digital Library  
Collection of digitized books from libraries around the world.

JSTOR  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance. Subscribed Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV collections. Lists of subscribed journals.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)    
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

Newspaper Source (EBSCO)     
Articles from the USA and other countries newspapers, TV and radio news.

Oxford Journals Collection     
List of subscribed journals.

Regional Business News (EBSCO)  
Regional business publications covering all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States.

SAGE Journals Online  
List of subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect   
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance.

Springer Journals  
Multi-disciplinary including economics and finance. Full-text. List of subscribed journals.

Taylor & Francis  
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997.

Wiley Online Library   
Multi-disciplinary database including economics and finance. List of subscribed Full Collection.

 

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You can find books dedicated to Economics and Finance are collected in the open collection of the Leonidas Donskis library. Older books on this topic are kept in repositories. 
Information about the items available in the library is provided in the VMU virtual library. Most books can be requested. 
 
Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)  
Catalogue containing books from academic publishers, among which Vytautas Magnus University Press as well.

Google Books 
Search full text of e-books.

Online library of open access books (OAPEN) 
Full-text e-books.


 

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Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary  

Britannica Online  
Encyclopedia.

Dictionary.com  

EH.net Encyclopedia  
History of economics.

Encyclopedia of Business Case Terms  

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

 

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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)  

FreeFullPDF  
Open access scholarly search engine.

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.

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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EconStor  
A portal for economic scientific publications, including economics and finance.

IMF eLibrary  
The IMF’s periodicals, books, work papers and studies, data and statistical tools.

Internet Archive     
Global digital library, including economics and finance. Registered users can download books for reading at home for 14 days.

IFRS Foundation  
Public interest organisation established to develop a single set of high-quality, understandable, enforceable and globally accepted accounting standards.

Scite 
The artificial intelligence-powered platform that helpst researchers better discover and evaluate scientific articles through Smart Citations – citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contradicting evidence.

The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository  
The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products.