Social Work

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Social work

Child and family well-being

Human rights

Inclusion of people with disabilities

Psychosocial support

Social policy

Social gerontology

Working with youth

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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 social work, nursing.
 
Academic Search Complete (per EBSCOhost)    
Multi-disciplinary database including social work. 

Cambridge Core    
Humanities, social sciences including psychology, sociology, social politics, education. Full text. List of subscribed journals

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)    
Multi-disciplinary database including social work.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection  
Multi-disciplinary database including social work. 

Health Source - Consumer Edition (per EBSCOhost)      
A full-text database covering a wide variety health topics, like fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health and more.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (per EBSCOhost)    
A full-text database that offers a trusted source of nursing and allied health literature. Topics: pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more. 

JSTOR Collections    
Multi-disciplinary database including social work. Lists of subscribed journals.

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)      
Multi-disciplinary database including social work. 

MEDLINE (EBSCO)     
Multi-disciplinary database including social work, nursing, medicine.

OAPEN Library     
The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in humanities and social sciences. OAPEN works with publishers to build a quality-controlled collection of open access books, and provides services for publishers, libraries and research funders in the areas of deposit, quality assurance, dissemination, and digital preservation.

Oxford Journals Collection    
Database includes academic and research journals published by Oxford University Press and it is covering a broad range of subject areas. List of subscribed journals.
 
Science Direct  
Database of Elsevier Publisher on physical, life, health, social sciences and humanities.

SAGE Journals Online    
Full-text journals by the SAGE Publications covering topics in business, humanities and social sciences. List of subscribed journals.

Science Direct  
Database of Elsevier Publisher on physical, life, health, social sciences and humanities.

Taylor & Francis    
Peer-reviewed journals in various fields of Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities.
List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997.
 

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VilniausTech eBooks   
Multi-disciplinary. List of eBooks.

Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB)   
Catalogue containing open access books from academic publishers

Online library of open access books (OAPEN) 

Google Books 

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Journals in the VMU virtual library 

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)          
Community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.

 
Newspapers in the VMU virtual library 

 

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Britannica Online      
Virtual encyclopedia.

Dictionary.com    
Virtual dictionary.

Encyclopedia.com    
Virtual encyclopedia.

Eurovoc  ​ 
Multilingual thesaurus.

Gerontologija  
Journal published by the Lithuanian Society of Gerontologists and Geriatricians.

Highwire Press  
Open access journals.

Socialiniai mokslai   
Journal published by Kaunas Universitety of Technology.

Socialinis darbas  
 
Socialinis darbas. Patirtis ir metodai  

Socialinis ugdymas  
The aim of the publication is to publish interdisciplinary research in the fields of social pedagogy, sociology, communication,  educology in the fields of social sciences, conducted not only in Lithuania but also abroad.

Thesaurus.com  ​ 
The largest (more than 550,000) and most reliable online thesaurus. 

Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija      
A scientific information publication providing widely accessible systematic information.




 

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EBSCO Open Dissertations 

Open Access Theses and Dissertations (OATD) 

The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) 

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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.
 
DOAB (Directory of Open access Books) 
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers
 
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) 
Directory of Open Access Journals.
 
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) 
This search gate is an integrated search system allowing search in Lithuanian academic libraries and other databases.

 

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British Association of Social Workers  
British Social Workers Association.
 
National Association of Social Workers 
Association of Social Workers.