Philosophy

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Philosophy
Aesthetics
Didactics of philosophy
Ethics
Existentialism
Hermeneutics
Logic
Metaphysics
Phenomenology
Political philosophy

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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 philosophy.

Cambridge Core  
Multi-disciplinary database including ethics, philosophy, religion. List of e-books.

Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)  
Leading provider of academic e-journals and e-books in humanities and social sciences, including history of philosophy, philosophers and more. Registration required. Some resources are full text.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection   Emerald Management eJournals Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, religion, ethics, politics, law, etc.

eBooks on ScienceDirect   
Database on humanities and social sciences including philosophy, ethics, logic, religion and more.

HathiTrust Digital Library  
A collection of over a million titles from around the world. Provides scientific information on philosophy topics.

JSTOR  
Multi-disciplinary database including where you will find scientific publications about philosophy. Subscribed Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV collections. List of subscribed journals.

Logos  
The journal is mainly devoted to scholarly studies in all areas of philosophy. The journal also publishes Lithuanian translations of important philosophical texts. Scholarly articles on religion, art, and general cultural issues are also accepted.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. Photographs and maps are also available.

Online Books Page  
Multi-disciplinary database with access to more than 3 million books. Topics include philosophy, ethics, religion.

Oxford Journals Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. List of subscribed journals.

SAGE Journals Online  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. List of subscribed journals.

ScienceDirect  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy. Subscribed journals Freedom Collection. Some resources have open access.

Taylor & Francis  
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, religion, politics, history, law, etc. List of subscribed journals.

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Encyclopaedia Britannica   
Encyclopaedia Britannica is a general knowledge English-language online encyclopaedia.

Encyclopedia.com  
Encyclopedia.com, you get free access to over 300,000 reference entries from sources you can cite. Plus, more than 50,000 topic summaries feature related pictures, videos, topic summaries, and newspaper and magazine articles from around the world.

Dictionary of Philosophy   
A guide to antiquity, the Middle Ages and modern times.

Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names   
A concise dictionary of philosophical terms and personal names.

LIDA tezauras  
Lithuanian data archive for searching related terms, including philosophy.

Meta-Encyclopedia of Philosophy   
Comparison of topics in the most important encyclopaedias and dictionaries of philosophy on the internet is presented.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy   
An online dictionary of philosophy, launched in 1995, meets the highest academic standards.

Thesaurus.com  
General vocabulary indicating semantic word connections.

Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia   
Digital version of Universal Lithuanian encyclopedia.

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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) 
One of the largest search engines performing search in open access scholarly resources.

DOAB (Directory of Open access Books) 
Catalogue containing full-text e-books from academic publishers, among which Vytautas Magnus University Press as well. Topics include history of philosophy, the most famous philosophers and their works.

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) 
Directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed multi-disciplinary journals. Topics include philosophy, religion, culture, ethics and more.

Google Scholar 
A scientific information search engine that searches for articles, dissertations, books, etc., published by scientific publishers, professional associations, universities and other research institutions.

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

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)       
Quality-assured global directory of academic repositories. Topics include philosophy, religion, ethics.

ScienceResearch.com 
Multi-disciplinary database including philosophy, religion, ethics, aesthetics, logic.

WorldWideScience.org 
Global search engine for national and international scientific databases and websites.

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Athena: filosofijos studijos  
An annual philosophical journal issued by the Department of Contemporary Philosophy of the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. The purpose of the journal is to provide a non-formal platform for high quality research in contemporary philosophy. “Athena: Philosophical Studies” publishes original scholarly articles and research papers devoted to all kinds of problems in contemporary philosophy.

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

Foucault Studies 
International journal in the English language devoted to the work and influence of the thinker Michel Foucault, often listed as the most cited contemporary author within the human and social sciences. Issues available since 2004.

Kanopy  
Video streaming platform. Among topics – philosophy, law, history, etc.

LiDA 
Lithuanian humanities and social science data archive.

Lituanistika  
International scientific database covering research in the humanities and social sciences, the object of which is the development and present of the Lithuanian state, society, culture, nation, language, public services, activities of organizations and municipalities.

Open Dissertations (EBSCO Publishing)   
An open access dissertation database that contains dissertations from the early 20th century to the present day.

Problemos   ​
Phlosophical journal publishing original scholarly articles and research papers devoted to all kinds of problems in philosophy. The journal also publishes translations of the original texts, book reviews, and the chronicle of academic life. The submissions are subject to double-blind peer-review by two scholars.

Soter  
A publication classified as scientific works in the fields of religious studies, philosophy, and theology.

Man and the Word  
A publication classified as a scientific work in the fields of philosophy, philology and education.