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Language technologies
Linguistics
Literature
Multilingualism
Publishing
Rhetoric
Sociolinguistics
Translation

Final theses are prepared according to the following citation styles: Chicago, Harvard
 
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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 Complete (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, computational linguistics.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)  
Database providing access to academic e-journals and e-books in various topics, including philology, language studies, translation,
computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, etc.

Wiley Online Library   
Multi-disciplinary database including linguistics, literature, language and cultural studies, computational linguistics. Access to 1700 journals till 23 September 2020. Some resources have open access.

Online Books Page  
Multi-disciplinary database containing more than 3 million books. Topics include philology, semiotics, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, academic writing, language teaching and learning.

Project Gutenberg  
Library of over 60,000 free eBooks. You will find the world's greatest literature here, with focus on older works as well.

ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, translation, children's language.
Some resources are open access.

Cambridge Core  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. List of subscribed Humanities and Social Sciences Collection.

Literary Reference Center (EBSCO)  
Literary database including literary criticism, biographies, fiction, book reviews, encyclopedias of literature.

JSTOR  
Multi-disciplinary database including  philology, linguistics, children's language. Subscribed „Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV“ collections. Lists of subscribed journals.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)   
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, corpus linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics. Photographs and maps are also available.

Pragmatics  
Journal. Pragmatics, semantics, discourse analysis.

SAGE Journals Online  
Multi-disciplinary database including literature, linguistics, translation, discourse analysis, bilingualism, language teaching. List of subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, translation, computational linguistics, discourse analysis. Subscribed journals Freedom Collection. Some resources have opes access.

SpringerLink  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, translation, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis. List of subscribed 2048 journals, archive.

Taylor & Francis   
Multi-disciplinary database including linguistics, literature, language and cultural studies, translation, bilingualism, multilingualism, language learning, discourse analysis, onomastics, creative writing. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997. Some resources have open access.

Lituanistika  
International research database providing bibliographic records, abstracts and full-text documents in humanities and social sciences about the past and present of the Lithuanian state, society, culture, nation and language. Topics include Lithuanian philology, press publications, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, semantics, pragmatics, translation, publishing.
 

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Foreign language textbooks, books on linguistics, literary translation, etc. Collected in the open collection of the Vaclovas Biržiška Library. Older books on this topic are stored in repositories. Information about the publications in the library is provided in the VMU virtual library. Many books can be ordered.
 
Information about e-books is available in the VMU virtual library.

More books – in licensed databases. 
 
eBooks on ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, aesthetics, cultural studies.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics.
 

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Searching for journals in the VMU virtual library.

Searching for newspaper in the VMU virtual library.


Oxford Journals Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, digital humanities. List of 280 subscribed journals.

Oxford Journals Open Access  
Over 450 journals in the humanities, social sciences, law, science, and medicine, two-thirds of which are published in partnership with learned and professional societies.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)  
Database providing access to academic e-journals and e-books in various topics, including philology, language studies, translation,
computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, semantics, etc.

Electronic Journals Library  
E-journals prepared by Regensburg University (Germany) Library. Topics include linguistic and literary studies, writing, discourse analysis, multilingualism, cultural studies.

Darbai ir dienos / Deeds and Days  
Journal in humanities and social sciences published by Vytautas Magnus University. It covers articles on various areas, including philology (linguistics and literary studies).

Kalbotyra (Linguistics)  
The journal of linguistics published by Vilnius University for research into various aspects of language studies and the ones addressing cross-linguistic issues.

Kalbų studijos / Studies About Languages  
Scientific journal published by Kaunas technology University since 2001 for research of comparative linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation and other linguistic fields.

Respectus Philologicus  
International journal published by Vilnius University and Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce for linguistic researchers, including issues of literary narratives and contexts, the influence of advertising discourse, theory and practice of translation, audiovisual research.

Žmogus ir žodis / Man and the World  
Academic journal (access since 1999) which promotes interdisciplinary research in humanities and social sciences, peer-reviews research papers in humanities (philology).

Kalbų studijos / Studies About Languages  
Scientific journal published by Kaunas technology University since 2001 for research of comparative linguistics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation and other linguistic fields.

Darnioji daugiakalbystė / Sustainable Multilingualism  
Scientific journal covering topics of language policy, development of plurilingual competence, language teaching and learning in higher education and problems in the development of intercultural dialogue. Focus is on the phenomenon of multilingualism from perspectives of various fields, including didactics, learning and acquisition, applied linguistics, foreign language teaching, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics and other fields of science.

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Cogprints  
Archive of articles covering electronic publishing, language philosophy, linguistics, including comparative semantics, pragmatics, language learning.

eScholarship (University of California, California Digital Library)  
Repository content includes postprints (previously published articles), as well as working papers, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), student capstone projects, and seminar/conference proceedings.

HathiTrust Digital Library  
A partnership of academic and research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.


 

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Dissertations and theses in the VMU science management system (CRIS ETD)

Dissertations and theses in the Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa ETD)

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EBSCO Open Dissertations
This platform allows researchers around the world to more easily access electronic versions of dissertations. The database contains more than 1.5 million dissertations from various fields of science.

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations NDLTD
The international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination, and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations. Support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.

Directory of Open Access Repositories (OpenDOAR)  
Quality-assured global directory of academic repositories. Topics include linguistics, bilingualism, semantics, translation, literature,
literary criticism. Access may be restricted by cache settings, such as those available on the intranet.

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.

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.

Europeana     
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 linguistics, Lithuanian literature, press publications, culture.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)  
Catalogue containing full-text e-books from academic publishers, among which Vytautas Magnus University Press as well. Topics include applied linguistics, bilingualism, multilingualism, sociolinguistics, literary and cultural studies.

FreeFullPDF  
Open access scholarly search engine. Topics include linguistics, semantics, computational linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,  literature and literary criticism.

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. Topics include  philology, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, translation.

 

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One Stop English     
Over 9000 resources, including lesson plans, worksheets, audio, video and flashcards, onestopenglish is the world's number one resource site for English teachers.

Collins Dictionary  
Online dictionary and reference resources draw on the wealth of reliable and authoritative information about language, thanks to the extensive use of our corpora - vast databases of language - both in English and in other languages.

Online Oxford Collocation Dictionary of English  
A completely new type of dictionary with word collocation that helps students and advanced learners effectively study, write and speak natural sounding English.