Food Studies

Food science
Climate change
Food quality assessment
Food raw materials
Food waste
Healthy food
Sustainable food systems

Research Assistant VL	An AI tool that uses large language models (LLMs). Allows to explore academic content, analyzes a large portion of the information resources indexed in the Virtual Library and selects five documents that may be most useful. For more information, click here.
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.

Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)       
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, food quality and safety, food raw materials, additives, food microbiology and toxicology.

AgEcon Search: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics        
Multi-disciplinary database including agronomy, agroecosystems, plant protection, crop production and more.

Applied Technologies and Innovations           
Multi-disciplinary database including plant protection and nutrition, soil sciences, crop production, nutrition and food safety and more.

ASABE (American Society of Agricultura l and Biological Engineers) Technical Library         
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, food row, food safety.

BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)          
Multi-disciplinary database including food chemistry, technology, microbiology, food safety, raw materials, food additives.

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)         
Multi-disciplinary database including food science. 

eBooks on ScienceDirect        
Multi-disciplinary database. It is prohibited to use  the content of the database for work with artificial intelligence systems. 
 
Cambridge Core    
Multi-disciplinary database. Including chemistry, nutrition, food industry.
 
Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)       
Multi-disciplinary database including chemistry, biology, food science.

CERES (Cranfield Collection of E-Research)       
Multi-disciplinary database including food safety and quality, soil sciences, crop production, and more.

Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences    
Multi-disciplinary database including agriculture, chemistry, biology, food science.

DART-Europe       
Database of electronic theses and dissertations.

DiVA - Academic Archive Online (Uppsala University Library)        ​      
Master theses of wide range.

Emerald Management eJournals Collection    
Multi-disciplinary database. List of subscribed journals.   

Open Science         
Multi-disciplinary database including biology, chemistry, ecosystems, agriculture and more.

Oxford Journals Open Access         
This collection includes Open Access articles from academic and research journals provided by Oxford, all available free of charge.

Science Publishing Group (Science PG)             
Multi-disciplinary database including biology, chemistry, food safety and quality, agronomy and more.

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 database including biology and genetics. Subscribed till 31 December, 2007, access is provided to licensed content.
 List of subscribed journals.

Wiley Online Library        
Multi-disciplinary database. Including agriculture, food science. List of subscribed Full Collection.

 

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

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

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD)  
Final theses of world science and study institutions. 

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

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

 

Eurostat       
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 

 

AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access)  
Records describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, food and human nutrition earth and environmental sciences and more.

AIMS (Agricultural Information Management Standart) 
The Agricultural Information Management Standards Portal (AIMS) of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO) gathers information on (and access to) standards, technology and best practices. It is also a forum connecting information management workers around the world to discuss open access and open data.

Environmental News Network    
New about flood risk, ecosystems, climate, energy, pollution, agriculture, green building, green energy and more.

FAO (The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)      

International Union for Conservation of Nature   
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is a membership of government and civil society organizations. Together, they work to promote sustainable development and create a just world where nature is protected.

Lithuanian Hydrometeorological Service under the Ministry of Environment (hereinafter – LHMS) 
Forecasts, observed data, reviews.

Lithuanian Standart Board (LST) Standarts Catalogue  
Lithuanian standarts. 

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