EBSCO online sessions in March 2025

Registrations for the training cycle organized by EBSCO designed for librarians, researchers, teachers and students, who would like to learn more about EBSCO.

Discover the world of literature with LitBase

13th March 2025, 12:30 PM EET (45 minutes) | Register

LitBase is a database of selected critical texts on literature. It supports research on the most studied authors, poetry, fiction, plays and non-fiction works worldwide. Take part in the training and learn in detail about the content of the database and how to search within the resources.

Introduction to CINAHL Ultimate: nursing knowledge at the highest level

18th March 2025, 11:00 AM EET (45 minutes) | Register

The session consists of two parts. At the beginning, we will provide a brief overview of CINAHL Ultimate, giving participants the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the content available in the database. Then, we will move to the EBSCOhost platform, where we will explore the search options using several examples.

EBSCOhost in a NEW version!

19th March 2025, 12:30 PM EET (60 minutes) | Register

During the session, we will review the new interface of the EBSCOhost platform, which allows searching in subscribed EBSCO databases. Our user experience team has spent years observing students and the challenges they face when using library interfaces. The result is a new EBSCOhost interface to meet ever-changing user expectations. Join the session if you are curious what the updated version of your favorite platform looks like.

Searching for world’s applied life sciences literature with CAB Abstracts with Full Text

25th March 2025, 12:00 PM EET (45 minutes) | Register

CAB Abstracts with Full Text is a bibliographic abstracting and indexing database that provides you with full text access to over 1,200 active journals. The database covers a wide range of subjects from agriculture, the environment, and veterinary sciences, to applied economics, leisure/tourism, and nutrition. Join this session to learn more about the content and see some search examples based on the EBSCOhost platform.

To stay up-to-date with upcoming training sessions, we recommend that you bookmark this site and visit it regularly to sign up for any new trainings

Trial of Sage Catalyst, a social science textbook collection

The collection of social science textbooks collection Sage Catalyst is available to the University community for 30 days. The collection includes 551 textbooks in eTextbook format, curated to offer resources across a wide variety of subjects, including Leadership, Marketing, Management, Entrepreneurship, Communication and Media Studies, Criminology & Criminal Justice, Psychology and more. Content of Sage Catalyst is accessed via VitalSource platform.

Quick Start Guide – how to navigate the platform

Sage Catalyst User Guide for short videos on how to find titles, navigate the eReader, and make the most of the resource

Once logged in, you can select “Continue without an Account.” To save your search history, you can create a personal account in “Access Your Content”: register with any of your email addresses and create a password.

The access for the University community is valid to 23 March, 2025.

A New Era in Library Cataloging: The AI Metadata Assistant

Cataloging publications is one of the core functions of a library, ensuring efficient information retrieval and access to resources for users. Traditional cataloging methods are time-consuming and require specialized knowledge of metadata standards such as MARC21 and Dublin Core. Today, catalogers can benefit from the AI Metadata Assistant integrated into the ALMA Library Services Platform (Ex Libris) – a technology that not only optimizes the cataloging process but also helps librarians enhance bibliographic records using advanced data analysis methods.

By leveraging large language models and machine learning algorithms, the AI Metadata Assistant automatically generates metadata, analyzing a publication’s content, titles, authors, and summaries while suggesting cataloging information based on established standards, processes digital documents, using OCR technology to recognize text from scanned materials and even extract contextual meaning from audio and video sources, identifies subject areas and provides classification and indexing data to improve resource discover.

It is important to emphasize that the AI assistant is not a replacement for catalogers – rather, it is an intelligent assistant that reduces routine workload and allows professionals to focus on more complex cataloging tasks. However, the AI assistant can significantly shorten metadata generation time from hours to minutes, reduce the risk of human errors, and enhance catalog records through automated data enrichment, making it easier for the community to find the necessary information resources.

Scite.ai training session for University community 18/02/2025

After successful trial in October-November 2024, the artificial intelligence-based platform Scite is subscribed for University community. We invite you to participate in the webinar about this platform – an innovative tool that will help you complete scientific research or written work more efficiently and quickly.

Scite analyzes and provides citation context for scientific papers, helping researchers evaluate the credibility and impact of scholarly articles.

Scite tool Assistant lets ask questions and gives an answer with insight and control into its thought process. It is a chat experience like ChatGPT, but with real, up to date references. It is possible to select filters for the Assistant task (Assistant Settings), including: letting Assistant decide whether references are needed, or override its behavior; specifying year ranges, topics, publication types, or journal names as filters when searching for papers; controlling the length of Assistant responses.

Information about the webinar:

18th February 2025, 1:30 PM CET (14:30 Lithuanian time)
ZOOM webinar: https://reprintsdesk.zoom.us/j/82342671867

Description:

Scite presentation.
Scite live platform demo:
How to perform an effective search for scientific articles and cited statements.
Scite search on the platform to show the results and explain the main tabs in the menu: Authors, Affiliations, Type of publications, Editorial notice etc. and how to do a more granular search.
How to create a report in Scite?
Create a dashboard, using search terms, an institution, or your own library (Citavi or Zotero).
How to use our reference Check tool to show the reliability of an uploaded document.
Ethical use of AI with our Scite Assistant.
Q&A: we open the floor to questions and feedback.

VDU CRIS server upgrade works 14/02/2025

On Friday, 14 February 2025, the University’s Research Management System (VDU CRIS) will be down for server upgrade work. We apologize for the inconvenience.

EBSCO online sessions in February 2025

Registrations for the training cycle organized by EBSCO designed for librarians, researchers, teachers and students, who would like to learn more about EBSCO.

EBSCOhost in a NEW version!

14th February 2025, 12:30 PM EET (60 minutes) | Register

During this session, we will review the new EBSCOhost interface, which enables searching across EBSCO databases. Our User Experience team has spent years observing students and the challenges they face when using library interfaces. As a result, the new EBSCOhost interface was created to meet changing expectations of users. Join the session if you are curious about the refreshed version of your favorite platform!

Searching for economic content with dedicated EBSCOhost business interface

19th February 2025, 12:30 PM EET (45 minutes) | Register

A session dedicated to Business Source Ultimate – a rich database of peer-reviewed articles in the fields of business, management and finance. During the training, we will show you a new dedicated interface that makes it easier to search for economic content. Business Source Ultimate is much more than just journals and magazines! During the session, the EBSCO trainer will show you how to find SWOT analyses, country reports, company profiles, videos and much more based on many search examples.

New! Petroleum Source

26th February 2025, 12:30 PM EET (40 minutes) | Register

Petroleum Source is a new full-text database for petroleum research. It provides access to the largest collection of leading journals covering the extraction, refining, and transportation of oil, gas, and petroleum products. In this session, we will provide a detailed overview of the database and demonstrate some practical searches.

Meet Inspec with Full Text

27th February 2025, 10:30 AM EET (40 minutes) | Register

Inspec with Full Text offers access to the world’s scientific and technical literature in physics, electrical engineering, electronics, computer science and other fields. Join the training to learn the secrets of the database and see how to search for information.

To stay up-to-date with upcoming training sessions, we recommend that you bookmark this site and visit it regularly to sign up for any new trainings

Elsevier webinars

We invite scientists, science administrators, and librarians to register and participate in webinars organized by Elsevier.

Webinars topics and dates:

Reaxys (Piotr Gołkiewicz, Life Sciences)

18 February 2025 | 12:00 PM Register

Unlocking the Power of Scopus AI: Comprehensive Introduction and Live Demonstration (Paula Milewska)

24 February 2025 | 13:00 PM Register

Mastering scientific literature: effective eearch strategies with ScienceDirect (Paula Milewska)

26 February 2025 | 11:00 AM Register

Understanding Scopus Indexation Criteria for Journals (Paula Milewska)

27 February 2025 | 12:00 PM Register

Live Q&A with Experts: Scopus Indexation Criteria for Journals (Paula Milewska & Galina Yakshonak)

06 March 2025 | 14:00 PM Register

Sustainable Development Goals reporting in SciVal (Alison Ferett)

12 March 2025 | 11:30 AM Register

Reaxys (Piotr Gołkiewicz, Life Sciences)

18 March 2025 | 12:00 PM Register

Training sessions “How to Publish with Oxford Journals” in February 2025

Training department of Oxford University Press invites to three sessions on “How to Publish with Oxford Journals” scheduled in the month of February, 2025.

The topics covered would be:

Differences between a thesis and an article
How to write a manuscript
Types of journal manuscripts
How to select which journal you want to write for
OUP & DORA – Journal metrics in the context of how they’re calculated
Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
Credit Taxonomy – Levels as a Researcher
How do you upload a manuscript on the OUP platform – Article submission process
The journal publishing cycle
What is Open Access – Kinds of Open Access
Understanding Read & Publish – How it benefits your institution

This session will help to determine whether you are ready to publish your work, discuss the manuscript forms available, and highlight points to consider when choosing the right journal for your research. At the end of the session the learner will be able to walk away with an understanding of the publishing process and the steps you should follow when preparing to publish for the first time.

Please find the links for sessions and register:

Session 1, 4th Feb-2025, 1:30 PM Register
Session 2, 10th Feb-2025, 1:30 PM Register
Session 3, 18th Feb-2025, 1:30 PM Register

At the end of the session, each attendee would be given a personalized e-Certificate of Attendance from Oxford University Press.

Severinas Gečas’ photography exhibition “Postcards”

We invite you to visit photo exhibition “Postcards” by Severinas Gečas, which is displayed in Agriculture Academy library (Studentų St. 11-235, Akademija, Kaunas region).

Severinas Gečas ( April) – Photographer/Photo artist,
3rd year student at Kaunas School of Applied Arts,
laureate of the competition “Thoughts of the Living Earth”,
product photographer and manager at the company “35 Kadras”.

About exhibition

The photography on film is not digital photography, because the photographs have a soul, they speak, further emphasizing identity and history of Šilutė. My ambition was to bring artistic photography to Prussian Lithuania. With this exhibition, I aim to highlight the uniqueness of Šilutė architecture and show the things that people might not notice in their everyday lives. The idea of the exhibition first came up during the centenary of the annexation of Klaipėda Region to Lithuania. The exhibition also sought to promote the name of Šilutė as the capital of ethnographic region of Lithuania Minor among other Lithuanian towns.

In this exhibition, you will see the main architectural monuments of Šilutė, but you will see them from a completely different angle and experience many of them from a new perspective.

All photos in the exhibition are available for purchase.

Exhibition of the competition “Elf World: art in different techniques”

Welcome to the exhibition of the competition “The World of Elves: creating with different techniques” which is exhibited in the library of the Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture (Studentų g. 11-235 room., Akademija, Kaunas district).

On 3 February, the Vytautas Magnus University Academy of Agriculture Library will open the exhibition of the works of the competition “The World of Elves: creativity in various techniques”.

The competition was attended by children from the Noreikiškės Nursery School “Ąžuolėlis” and the school-kindergarten “Gilė”.

The works of the competition were created not only from foodstuffs, but also from twigs, pebbles, etc. found in the forest.

The exhibition will be open throughout February.

You are welcome to visit!