Web of Science Research Assistant is on trial

The Web of Science Research Assistant is a generative AI-powered tool that enhances your research. The assistant is designed to keep up with your research needs as they develop. Research Assistant is situated in the middle of top bar of Web of Science.

The access for the University community is valid to 20 October, 2024.

Learn more about the Web of Science Research Assistant here

English-Corpora.org subscription

English-Corpora.org are a collection of highly curated corpora (or collections of text) designed for searching text from a range of resources to observe language, variation, and change between specified dates on specific items. These online corpora are used for many different purposes by teachers and researchers at universities throughout the world. The corpus data (e.g. full-text, word frequency) are used especially in language learning.

Training Sessions on “How to Publish with Oxford Journals”

These sessions will help you determine whether you are ready to publish your work, the following topics will be discussed :

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

Sep 19 th, 2024 (10:30 AM–12:30 PM) Register

Sep 26 th, 2024 (10:30 AM–12:30 PM) Register

Trial access to EBSCO literary criticism databases

The trial access to selected EBSCO Literary databases has been activated and resources are now available in test access for academic community of Vytautas Magnus University:

LitBase

LitBase database supports literary research on the most widely studied authors, poetry, fiction, plays, and nonfiction worldwide, providing resources such as author interviews, bibliographies, biographies, book reviews, classic books, encyclopedias and dictionaries, nonfiction, full-text journals, literary criticism, novellas, plays, poems, short stories, and more. LitBase provides more author interviews, biographies, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, poems, poetry reviews, screenplays, and short stories from antiquity to the 21st century, including works of high culture not produced in the West. Among its 1.5 million records, users will find historical and contemporary texts from around the world, including Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Ireland, Latin America, New Zealand, Scandinavia, the Slavic countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Literary Reference Source eBook Subscription

Additional database to LitBase, containing reference works covering a wide range of literature-related topics, including literary criticism and guides to the study of classic literature.

The databases were added to EBSCOhost platform at https://search.ebscohost.com/ and are available for end users directly within the network of IP addresses and remotely, from home computers and mobile devices.

The access for the University community is valid to 8 November, 2024.

Online session dedicated to LitBase

NEW! LitBase

18th September 2024, 11:00 AM EEST (40 minutes) | Register

Trial access to PressReader (newspapers and magazines database)

PressReader has the largest selection of newspapers and magazines from over 120 countries in over 60 languages. That’s 7,000 trusted publications on a single platform: global news from the world’s most reputable journalists and sources from The Washington Post, The Guardian, Le Figaro, Forbes, National Geographic, GQ, Vogue, Harper‘s Bazaar, etc.

The access for the University community is valid to 7 October, 2024.

Oxsico has become Identific

Educational technology start-up Oxsico has changed its name to Identific. The change was prompted by a change in service profile, such as the addition of artificial intelligence recognition, and the supplier’s desire to more clearly communicate the company’s core values. The news release states: “The word “Identific” conveys the problem areas identified during the training process and the corresponding corrections in response to the marked areas. Therefore, with the new name, we will present a different approach to the plagiarism prevention process as well as new functionality. The system will become an educational tool, making it easier for students to understand and correct mistakes, reducing stress and saving time and administrative burden for lecturers and university administrators.”

All changes will be made within the system. User logins will remain the same, but users should use the identific.com environment to connect to the system.

EBSCO online sessions September 2024

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!

10th September 2024, 2:00 PM EEST (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.

Everything that you should know about EBSCO Mobile App

12th September 2024, 1:30 PM EEST (30 minutes) | Register

Overview of the features available in the new EBSCO Mobile App. We will show you how to download, log in and use the application. We will tell you how to download an e-books within the app. All in just 30 minutes.

NEW! LitBase

18th September 2024, 11:00 AM EEST (40 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.

EBSCO eBooks in practice!

19th September 2024, 1:00 PM EEST (40 minutes) | Register

Practical training during which participants will learn how to use EBSCO eBooks online, how to download full e-books and chapters, how to use e-books on smartphones, tablets and readers and how to download and authorize Adobe Digital Editions.

Searching with Education Source Ultimate

23rd September 2024, 12:30 PM EEST (45 minutes) | Register

During the session, we will review the most important resources available in Education Source Ultimate, a database released in a new version in June 2023. The session will mainly be a search workshop, during which we will present several practical examples of searching for scientific materials in the field of education.

JSTOR Research Webinar

Thursday, September 5 at 8:00 PM EDT

Learn about the latest time-saving features and functionality on JSTOR. These make finding, keeping track of, and sharing all kinds of content on JSTOR easy and efficient.

Explore:

– new and more efficient ways to discover books, journals, and research reports;
– how to unearth millions of primary sources from contributing collections including audio and video files;
– finding and saving Images from museums and collections worldwide;
– updates to the JSTOR Workspace, the place to organize and share content on JSTOR.

Registration

Happy Science and Knowledge Day!

Knowledge is the greatest wealth. May knowledge and the ability to use it become a constant necessity in life, give you confidence and open up new opportunities to achieve your dreams and life goals!

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.