Music

Music Academy Library
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Accordion
Conducting
Music artist
Piano
Singing
String instruments
Wind and percussion instruments

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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 music.
 
Cambridge Core
Multi-disciplinary database including music theory, music history, music pedagogy, and performance art.
 
Ebook Central (Academic Complete)
Multi-disciplinary database including music.
 
EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Multi-disciplinary database including music, and music pedagogy.
 
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including music, music pedagogy, and performance art.

OAPEN Library 
Open access academic books in the humanities and social sciences.
 
SAGE Journals Online  
Multi-disciplinary database including music, and music pedagogy. List of subscribed journals.
 
Taylor & Francis
Multi-disciplinary database including music, and music pedagogy. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997.
 
Wiley Online Library (Social Sciences and Humanities kolekcija)
Multi-disciplinary database including music. Access to 1700 Wiley journals in all subject areas till 23 September 2020. 
 

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GROVE MUSIC ONLINE
Online music encyclopedia.

Lithuanian Music Link
E-magazine about Lithuanian contemporary compositional music, practices of its creation, performance, and public events. Jazz, experimental electronic music, post-folklore.
 

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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)
One of the largest search engines performing searches in open access scholarly resources.
 
Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME)  
DIME is the centerpiece of the multifaceted digital projects of the Mozart Institute. 
 
ePaveldas: Bibliotekos – Muziejai – Archyvai 
A data bank of digital cultural heritage content from Lithuanian archives, libraries, and museums provides access to digitized manuscripts, old books, newspapers and magazines, metrics, and other most valuable national cultural heritage objects.
 
Google Scholar
A Search engine provides search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts, and court opinions from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities, and other websites. Google Scholar helps you to find relevant works across the world of scholarly research. 
 
Lietuvos elektroninė akademinė biblioteka (eLABa)
Scientific publications, dissertations, and final theses of Lithuanian scientific institutions. Some of the works have an embargo period. 
 
Lituanistika 
Database providing bibliographic information and full-text approach to a variety of genres in social sciences and humanities research, the object of which is the past and present of Lithuania's state, society, culture, nation, and language.
 
medici.tv EDU
Classical music video collection - concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries about musicians, ballet dancers, recordings of music master classes.
 
New Music USA Online Library  
The vast and comprehensive digital database contains over 57,000 works by more than 6,000 composers and includes over 14,000 media samples (recordings and scores).

Open Music Library (OML)  
Information about composers and performers, articles, books, sheet music, large audio library and video library.
 
Petrucci Music Library 
International music library.
 
ScoresOnDemand 
Music scores.
 

Kompozitoriaus G. Kuprevičiaus svetainė 
Lithuanian composer G. Kuprevičius sheets (PDF) and recordings.
 
Lietuvos muzikos informacijos centras
Information about Lithuanian composers of modern and contemporary classics, authors and/or performers of jazz, electronic experimental works, new folklore, popular music, old stage, and artifacts of their works. Rental of scores and parts of orchestral works by Lithuanian composers. Database of Lithuanian music composers and performers, library, records.
 
The International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM)
Profiles of contemporary composers from fifty countries of the world, sheet music (PDF), and recordings of their works. Information about conferences, competitions, and festivals.
 
Scite 
The artificial intelligence-powered platform helps 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.