Sociology and Anthropology

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Sociology

Social anthropology

Consumption

Intercultural communication

Migration

Social analytics

Social processes

Final theses are prepared according to the following citation styles: APA, Harvard
 
Description of the use of text generated by the GDI tool according to the APA, Harvard citation styles.

 

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 sociology, anthropology. 

Ebook Central (Academic Complete)     
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology, anthropology. 
 
eBooks on ScienceDirect   
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology.

EBSCO eBook Academic Collection    
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology.

JSTOR    
Multi-disciplinary database including social anthropology, sociology, statistics, health care.

eBooks by KTU Publishing House "Technologija"   
Ebooks published by Kaunas University of Technology publishing house „Technologija“. Database covers various disciplines including science, social sciences, physics, chemistry and more. 

MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)    
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology, anthropology.

eBooks by Mykolas Romeris University   
The ebooks are presented by advanced and modern means in the portal ebooks.mruni.eu. The readers may read all books presented in the portal online or to download them into his/her computer or other reading device.

OECD iLibrary   
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology. Subscribed till  November 1, 2012, access is provided to licensed content.

ScienceDirect    
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology. Subscribed journals  Freedom Collection.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)    
Sociology.

Taylor & Francis   
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology. List of subscribed journals. Access to articles since 1997.

Wiley Online Library   
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology. Access to 1700 Wiley journals in all subject areas till 23 September, 2020.
 
Academic Search Complete (per EBSCOhost)   
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology and anthropology.
 
Anthropological Journal of European Cultures  
Anthropology, migration & refugee studies, geography, history, and film studies.
 
Cambridge Journals Online    
Provides full text for archive of journals published by Cambridge University Press. Includes titles in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Fulltext access to journals published from 2003 to 2006.

Emerald Management eJournals Collection     
Peer-reviewed journals with fulltext covering field of social sciences. Topics: marketing, human resources, management, information and communication sciences.

JSTOR Collections   
Multi-disciplinary database including saociology. Subscribed Arts & Sciences I, II, III, IV collections. Lists of subscribed journals.

 MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO Publishing)   
MasterFILE Premier provides full text for over 1,800 general interest, business, consumer health, general science, and multicultural periodicals. In addition, this database offers indexing and abstracts for over 2,500 periodicals.

SAGE Journals Online  
Full-text journals by the SAGE Publications covering topics in business, humanities and social sciences.
 
Science Direct    
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology. Subscribed journals  Freedom Collection.

SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO   
Moksliniai žurnalai socialinių mokslų temomis, tarp temų − sociologija.
 
Taylor & Francis Online    
Multi-disciplinary database including sociology cultural studies and more. 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 

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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Encyclopaedia Britannica  
 
European Commission website 
Official website of the European Union.
 
HASSET 
E-dictionary of Humanities and Social sciences.

Philosophy. Sociology  
Periodic scientific journal, published four times  per year since 1990.

Sociological Research Online 




 

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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 largest search engines that searches open access scientific resources (journals, institutional repositories, digital collections, etc.).

Google Scholar 
A search engine that allows you to search for information in peer-reviewed journals, dissertations, technical reports, university websites and books.

Lietuvos elektroninė akademinė biblioteka (eLABa) 
An integrated search engine that allows you to search the catalogs of Lithuanian academic libraries and open access resources.

OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories)        
Data repository register. Peer-reviewed articles in various scientific fields, conference presentations, books, training course materials, audio and video recordings, research data, unpublished works, reports, doctoral dissertations and theses, unpublished conference presentations, etc.

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 Eurostat    
Statistical office of the European Union.

Scite 
The artificial intelligence-powered platform that helpst 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.