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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 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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Reference resources
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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Search engines
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.
 
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Other resources
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.