Databases

It is allowed to access databases without passwords using all the ISLB's computers. Those, who want to access databases from home, should consult the reading-room's employee or write an email to biblioteka@islb.eu Users are allowed to copy (save on their computers, print, etc.) only small pieces of information for purposes of their work or studies. It is illegal to copy that information completely as well as to use it for commercial purposes or making it available via internet to other persons. It is illegal to pass the access data to other persons.

  • Subscribed databases

    EBSCO - One of the largest databases containing journals of various fields, business bibliographic and fulltext journals database. (Subjects: Accounting, economics, finance,marketing, management, torism and others)

    EBSCO (Log in for Remote Users)

    EMERALD (Emerald Management eJournals Collection) - Multi-disciplinary database of scholarly journals ( Subjects: marketing, management, finance, torism , transport and others)

    Title list

    Remote access is possible with username and password (ask in library)

    Taylor & Francis - Full text journals in all fields of science. Journals available since 1997.

    Title list Access from ISLB network only

    Oxford Art Online - Available without passwords from ISLB. Remote access is possible with username and password (ask in library)

    Oxford Music Online - Available without passwords from ISLB. Remote access is possible with username and password (ask in library)

    Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection - (dictionaries, references, encyclopaedias) - Available without passwords from ISLB. Remote access is possible with username and password (passwords provided in library)

Open access resources 

Slovenian Social Science Data Archive provides access to social studies data related with Slovenia. Besides the data, the collection of materials also includes the codebook and additional material used for a detailed description of the contents and the methodology used in the study, as well as as additional material important for the understanding of the data origins.

ADS Polish Social Data Archive
Archive for Polish social science data.
The upload of ADS data requires former registration which is possible on the Archive website.

arXiv - open access repository
Subject repository in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. open access data archive

CiteSeer - open access repository
It is a scientific literature digital repository and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science.

Co-Action Publishing - collection of open access journals
International list of scholarly Open Access journals and books.

DART-Europe - open access repository Access to almost 200 000 full-text research theses from more than 300 Universities sourced from different European countries collection of open access journals

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
A comprehensive directory of Open Access journals, created at Lund University. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals in all subjects and languages.

E-LIS  (E-prints in Library and Information Science) - open access repository
Archive of more than 11 000 documents in the library and information science.

Economist Online - open access repository
Digital repository of some of the world's leading academical institutions, which contains over 900,000 bibliographic references, many linking to full text publications and datasets.
Collection of open access journals

Google Scholar - mokslinės informacijos paieškos sistema.

Highwire Press - collection of open access journals
An archive of Stanford University publishing house HighWire
Press full text open access scientific journals on medicine, biomedicine, ps

Lithuanian Data Archive for Social Sciences and Humanities (LIDA) - open access data archive
The largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in Lithuania collection of open access journals

NewJour - collection of open access journals
The archive of new journals and newsletters available on the Internet in different topics.

The Oxford Text Archive - open access repository
It is a repository of digital literary and linguistic resources for research and teaching. Thousands of texts in more than 25 different languages. Some depositors require users to register and sometimes also contact them before allowing to download the resource

Open J-Gate - collection of open access journals
Open J-Gate is an electronic gateway to global journal literature in open access domain. Launched in 2006, Open J-Gate provides seamless access to millions of research and industry journal articles available online.

OpenDOAR - open access repository
An authoritative directory of academic open access repositories.
The list of Lithuanian open access repositories in OpenDOAR directory.

PubMed Central - collection of open access journals
Free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, developed and managed by NIH's National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the National Library of Medicine (NLM).

Registry of Open Access Repositories ROAR - open access repository
Registry of Open Access Repositories

RePEc - open access repository
Digital repository of research papers in economics, which holds over 800,000 various items from more than 70 countries. RePEc does not contain full-text journal articles, it provides links to many full text articles. Personal or institutional subscription to get access to full text publications may be required.

Scientific Journals International - open access journals

Search Pigeon - collection of open access journals
Open access scholarly articles in Art and Humanities.

Sociological Data Archive (SDA) Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - open access data archive
The Sociological Data Archive at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic provides access to data files from sociological research projects

SSRN - open access repository
Digital repository of scholarly papers in social science currently containing over 243,400 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format.

TARKI Data Archive - open access data archive
The national digital social science research archive in Hungary operated by TARKI Joint Research Center (TARKI JRC).

The National Hydrocarbons Data Archive - open access data archive It is the primary, long-term data archive for the geoscientific legacy resulting from UK offshore oil and gas exploration and production activity.

Open access e-books 

Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts - collection of electronic books

A collection of public domain and open access documents with a focus on American and English literature as well as Western philosophy.

Bartleby.com - collection of electronic books
Created since 1993, gives access to thousands of open access resources, divided into reference, verse, fiction and notification.

BookBoon.com - collection of electronic books
Free online textbooks, travel guides and business ebooks.

CCOTC textbooks - collection of electronic books

E-Books Directory (Open access textbooks covering a wide variety of topics.)
E-Books Directory is a daily growing list of freely downloadable ebooks, documents and lecture notes found all over the internet.

Ebooks Online Library - collection of electronic books
These collections were received from Gutenberg Project and prepared with regard to specific eyesight needs therefore recommended to people with sight disabilities. Display of different size of letters and colours (background, text) is possible.

Feedbooks - collection of electronic books
Free e-books in a large number of formats.

Flat World Knowledge - collection of electronic books
Flat World Knowledge is the leading commercial publisher of open textbooks.Free online textbooks on Business, Economics, Humanities and Social Sciences, Mathematics, Professional and Applied Sciences.
collection of electronic books

FreeComputerBooks.com - collection of electronic books
It is a huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books and Tutorials very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories.

FreeOnlineBookStore.org - collection of electronic books
Collection of over 1000 full text books covering a wide variety of topics.

FreeTechBooks.com - collection of electronic books
Free online computer science, engineering and programming books and textbooks.

getfreeebooks - collection of electronic books
Full text books covering a wide variety of topics.

Google Book Search - collection of electronic books
Full text books covering a wide variety of topics.

ICRISAT - collection of electronic books
Collection of over 300 books in print of ICRISAT that appeared during 1975 - 1998.

National Academy Press - collection of electronic books
It is possible to access over 4000 scientific resources in electronic Adobe PDF format. Hundreds of these books can be downloaded for free by the chapter or the entire book.

OER Commons - collection of electronic books
OER Commons is based on alliances with providers of high-quality Open Educational Resources.It was launched in February 2007, as a network for teaching and learning materials. It is not only electronic textbooks, but also full university courses, lecture notes, elementary and high school lesson plans.

Online Books Page - collection of electronic books
This website gives access to over 40,000 electronic books covering a wide variety of topics.

Project Gutenberg - collection of electronic books
One of the biggest collections of free downloadable ebooks, created since 1971. At the moment it is possible to download over 32,000 free ebooks. No fee or registration is required.

Questia - collection of electronic books
This website gives access to over 5,000 electronic books covering a wide variety of topics.

The Assayer - collection of electronic books
Free online books mostly about mathematics, science, and computers.

The eBook Directory - collection of electronic books
The biggest directory of free downloadable ebooks online.

The Global Text Project - collection of electronic books
A library of dozens of open access textbooks and out-of-print books with open licenses. Hosted by the University of Georgia's Terry School of Business.

The Online Books Page - collection of electronic books .
Catalog of more than 40,000 free online books, including textbooks. Hosted by the University of Pennsylvania library.

The Orange Grove - collection of electronic books
A searchable and well organized repository of open textbooks and other digital resources. A project of the State of Florida.

Wikibooks - collection of electronic books - collection of electronic books
Wikibooks is a collection of open-content textbooks that anyone can edit and which can be used in a traditional classroom, an accredited or respected institution, a home-school environment, as part of a Wikiversity course or for self-learning.

WitGuides - collection of electronic books
Full text books covering a wide variety of topics.