All University journals in VDU CRIS

The University aims to ensure the maxsimum quality, accessibility and visibility of its scientific journals. The journals use advanced platforms for publishing, such as: Sciendo, the University’s Open Journal System. The journals or individual articles are available in scientific assessment and other databases and popular academic platforms such as CEEOL, DOAJ, EBSCOhost, Google Scholar, Lituanistika, Lithuanian Academic e-Journal, Lithuanian Academic e-Journal, Lithuanian Academic e-Library, Scopus, Web of Science, and many others, but all now and in previous years published University journals and their archives, can be found in one place – in the University Research Management System (VMU CRIS), which aims to preserve the information on all journals and their articles, regardless of their publication and dissemination platforms. This ensures that the University’s journals:

– Long-term preservation of content. Journals remain accessible even decades later, regardless of changes in external platforms changes;

– Reliability of the content, because the preservation of data integrity and security is guaranteed by advanced system (VDU CRIS) technologies;

– Content completeness, as detailed journal metadata is provided: identifiers, editorial collections, websites, access conditions, citation rates, etc., journal issues and articles;

– Openness and accessibility. The University ensures that all scholarly works are accessible to all members of the community and the general public in accordance with the Open Science Policy.

Thus, the strategy of publishing and archiving the University’s journals – to publish journals on various platforms, while preserving their archives in VDU CRIS, not only increases their accessibility and visibility, but also ensures that the University’s scientific information will be stored, remain accessible and safe in the future.

Currently, 22 scientific journals are published at the University, 27 were previously published. The publisher of 16 currently published journals is VDU alone, 6 journals are published together with other institutions. 9 journals are included in Web of Science and/or Scopus databases. All of the university’s journals are open access, and 15 of them are diamond access (an academic publishing model where journals and platforms charge neither authors nor readers). There are 17 journals in the field of HSM (8 – humanities, 9 – social sciences), and 5 in the field of nature, technology, medicine and health, agricultural sciences (3 – agricultural sciences, 2 – technological sciences). More details – on the library’s website and VDU CRIS.