Scandinavian Studies

Vaclovas Biržiška Library
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Scandinavian countries
Denmark
Finnish language and culture
History of Scandinavian countries
Swedish language and culture
Norwegian language and culture

Final theses are prepared according to the Harvard citation style.
 
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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 history, politics, economics, etc. of Scandinavian countries.
 
 EBSCO eBook Academic Collection
Multi-disciplinary database. The widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counselling, history and more.
 
EBSCO eBook Open Access Collection
Multi-disciplinary database including cultural and language studies, history and more.
 
JSTOR
Multi-disciplinary database including economics, history, politics, cultural studies, education and more.
Subscribed collections Arts & Sciences I-IV. Lists of subscribed journals.
 
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
Multi-disciplinary database including culture studies, philology, ethnology, regional studies, history and more.
 
SAGE Journals Online
Multi-disciplinary database including culture studies, philology, ethnology, history and more. List of subscribed journals.
 
Taylor & Francis
Multi-disciplinary database including philology, history, cultural studies and more. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997.
 
 

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Books on the languages, literature, culture, history and other fields of Scandinavian countries are collected in the open collection of the Vaclovas Biržiška Library. Older books on this topic are kept in repositories.  
Information about the items available in the library is provided in the VMU virtual library. Most books can be requested. 
 
Information about e-books is available in the VMU virtual library.

More books – in licensed databases. 
 

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Directory of Open access Books DOAB  
Over 99,000 academic peer-reviewed books. It also houses books from Vytautas Magnus University. 

Google books  
E-book search engine.

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Ethnologia Scandinavica 
Publishes peer reviewed articles in English based on all ethnographical branches of material and social culture.

European journal of Scandinavian studies 
The journal's content reflects the international spectrum of Scandinavian studies with the subareas of modern literature and cultural studies.

Scandinavian journal of history (Online) 
Scandinavian Journal of History presents articles on Nordic history and review essays that survey themes in recent historical research about the Nordic region.

Scandinavica  
The scholarly journal focusing on the literature and culture of the Nordic countries. 
 

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Searching for journals in the VMU virtual library

Search for journal articles in the VMU Research Management System (VMU CRIS)

Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ 
DOAJ's mission is to increase the visibility, accessibility, reputation, usage and impact of quality, peer-reviewed, open access scholarly research journals globally, regardless of discipline, geography or language. 

OpenEdition Journals  
The journals platform for the humanities and social sciences.  
 
Aftenposten
Norway's largest daily newspaper.

Dagbladet
A Norwegian daily newspaper. Dagbladet is one of Norway's largest newspapers.

Berlingske.dk
A Danish national daily newspaper, based in Copenhagen. First published on 3 January 1749, Berlingske is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Denmark and one of the oldest newspapers in the world.

Dagens Nyheter
A daily newspaper, published in Stockholm, Sweden since 1864. One of the largest and most popular newspapers in Scandinavia. Covers both national and international news.

Helsingin Sanomat
The largest daily newspaper in Finland.

Morgunblaðið
Iceland's major daily newspaper.
 

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Islandic-English Dictionary
A dictionary of old Norwegian Icelandic prose texts.
 
Nordic Dictionaries
The web is a good source of useful dictionaries, including many in Nordic languages. This page features online dictionaries in one or more of the Nordic languages, which are easy to use and search.

The Danish Dictionary
A dictionary of Modern Danish.
 
The People‘s Dictionary
Interactive Swedish English and English Swedish dictionary.
 
 

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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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dissertations.se
Dissertations.se lets search among university dissertations from Sweden, written in English. Now there are 91287 finished dissertations in the database - and about half of these are available for download as PDF.

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 to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide.

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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.
 
Directory of Open Access Repositories OpenDOAR
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.
 
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. 
 
Lithuanian Academic Electronic Library (eLABa)
Search gate is an integrated search system allowing search in Lithuanian academic libraries and other databases.
 

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H-Skand
The Network for Scandinavian History and Culture. Discussions on a wide range of scholarly and teaching topics related to Scandinavian history are part of H-Skand's purpose. H-Skand will commission original reviews of new books, journal articles, and electronic resources.

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)
An academic association representing scholars, institutions, and individuals across the globe who are interested in the history, language and culture of the Nordic regions.
 
SwePub
Academic publications at Swedish universities. Search among scholarly articles, conference papers and dissertations etc.
 
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study (SASS)
An academic association representing scholars, institutions, and individuals across the globe who are interested in the history, language and culture of the Nordic regions.