General information

WHEN IS THE LIBRARY OPEN?

Each Vilnius Tech Library branch offers different hours of operation depending on the time of year. Information about current or upcoming hours can be easily found online >>>

HOW DO I FIND RULES ON USE OF VILNIUS TECH LIBRARY?

Rules You will find here >>>

HOW DO I FIND FULL INFORMATION ABOUT RESOURCES AND SERVICES?

Library courses with all useful information available on Moodle >>>

WHO CAN USE LIBRARY SERVICES?

Students from other university can use Reading rooms, open spaces, but can not borrow books. There is EDUROAM internet for students >>>

WHERE CAN I COPY, SCAN OR PRINT ?

Papers sent for printing can be realised after confirming identity in these devices:

Library main building, Saulėtekio al. 14;
Faculty of Architecture, SNR-I, 1st floor hall near the reading room, Trakų 1;
Technology and Management Sciences Reading Room, SRC Basement Floor C03, Saulėtekio al. 11 (new building);
Faculty of Electronics, ER-I ,3rd floor, Naugarduko 41;
Information Technologies and Systems Center, SRL-I 3th floor, Saulėtekio al. 11;
Faculty of Mechanics, MR-I, 2nd floor, Basanavičiaus 28;
Transport Engineering Faculty, TR-I 4nd floor, Plytinės 27;
Central Room, SRC 2nd floor, Saulėtekio al. 11 (new building);
Business Management Faculty, SRK-I, 6th floor, Saulėtekio al. 11

Self-service machine operation guide >>>

Price List for Library services >>>

HOW DO I GET PLACE FOR INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP WORK?

You need to fill special forms if you want to reserve the room >>>

WHO CAN RESERVE WORK ROOMS?

Only VGTU students.

HOW DO I UPLOAD THE FINAL THESIS TO ELABA ETD SYSTEM?

You need to connect to eLABa ETD with your institution user account.

WHERE CAN I BIND DOCUMENTS?

You can bind documents in Central Library, Customer Service Department Saulėtekio al. 14,101, I-V 9 a.m.-9 p.m.

Price List >>>

BOOKS BORROWING/RETURNING

HOW CAN I ORDER A BOOK OR A COPY OF PUBLICATION PART?

Readers can search and order publications via the Vilnius Tech Virtual library. Only members of the Vilnius Tech community can order and borrow publications at home.

Readers can order a copy of part of a publication via Virtual Library by clicking "Order a copy" of the publication. The service is paid for.

Copy by e-mail - 1 page 0,04 EUR*

Copy by paper (black and white copy) - 1 page 0,04 EUR+ post charge **

*For a copy of publication part in electronic or paper format user has to pay after service receiving via bank or by coming to the library. User must to pay immediately if total sum of all orderings reach 10,00 EUR.
**Price of sending a copy of publication part in paper format depends from weight and post rates of Lithuania.

HOW AND WHERE CAN I RETURN BOOKS?

You can return books in the book return device at the entrance of Central library (Saulėtekio al. 14) at any time.

HOW MUCH IS A LIBRARY FINE PER DAY?

Remember: be attentive and return books in time! Users, who fail to return a book, may be fined (the fine goes every day to every taken book). The fine has been rated by the Rector:
• 0,07 EUR if a book was given for one semester;
• 0,14 EUR if a book was given for a shorter time than one semester.

HOW TO RENEW BOOKS?

The documents can be renewed via online via Vilnius Tech Virtual library connecting to personal account, via e-mail crypt:PGEgZGF0YS1tY2UtaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOmFib25lbWVudGFzQHZndHUubHQiIGhyZWY9Im1haWx0bzphYm9uZW1lbnRhc0B2Z3R1Lmx0Ij5iaWJsaW90ZWthQHZndHUubHQ8L2E+:xx, via phone (8-5) 274 49 00. The term of using the documents can be prolonged, if they are not required by other reader.

WHERE CAN I FIND RECOMMENDATIONS OF LECTURERS?

Recommendations of lecturers you can find >>>

HOW TO GET PUBLICATION FROM OTHER LITHUANIAN OR FOREIGN LIBRARIES?

Readers must an exact bibliographic description of the publication post via special e-form - for book it‘s necessary to write: title, author(s), publishing year, ISBN; - for article it‘s necessary to write: title, author(s), source title, volume, number, year, pages, ISSN.

HOW CAN I GET RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT METHODICAL GUIDELINES?

Information Consultants can recommend how to search electronic information resources in subscribed, free trial, patent and open-access databases. E-mail: crypt:PGEgaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOmluZm9rb25zdWx0YW50YWlAdmd0dS5sdCI+aW5mb2tvbnN1bHRhbnRhaUB2Z3R1Lmx0PC9hPg==:xx or telephone: (8-5) 251 22 54

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HOW CAN I USE THE LIBRARY E. RESOURCES FROM HOME?

Vilnius Tech SSL VPN service is provided to Vilnius Tech academic community. While connecting to the Vilnius Tech network via VPN, the library created and subscribed databases are available from home computer. Instructions of VPN installation >>>

WHERE CAN I GET INFORMATION FOR MY THESIS?

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DATABASES

WHAT IS TRIAL DATABASES?

It is a database which is available only for few months.

WHAT IS SUBSCRIBED DATABASES?

Databases include full-text articles, conference reports, books, statistics and bibliographic documents (full text is not available in bibliographic documents). There is information describing articles, monographs or textbooks – author, title, year, location, summary.

Vilnius Tech community has access to 29 of various disciplines and thematic books and journals databases, 3 archives and 1 bibliographic information management tool.

CAN I COPY THE INFORMATION FROM VGTU LIBRARY SUBSCRIBED DATABASES?

The information from Vilnius Tech library subscribed databases could be copied (downloaded to computer, print) only for personal academic purposes and only for small quantities. It is strictly prohibited information transfer to third parties, using in intranet or for commercial purposes. The transference of login data to third parties is also strictly prohibited. The author’s rights in Lithuania are defended by Copyright and Related Rights Act.

WHERE CAN I FIND MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DATABASES?

For more information about access to databases please contact to information consultants, Saulėtekio al. 14, telephone: (8-5) 251 22 54, e-mail: crypt:PGEgZGF0YS1tY2UtaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOiUyMGluZm9rb25zdWx0YW50YWlAdmd0dS5sdCIgaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOiUyMGluZm9rb25zdWx0YW50YWlAdmd0dS5sdCI+aW5mb2tvbnN1bHRhbnRhaUB2Z3R1Lmx0PC9hPg==:xx

PUBLICATIONS

WHAT KIND OF PUBLICATIONS ARE REGISTER AT VGTU PUBLICATIONS DATABASE (PDB)?

Having VGTU assignment, or assigned to any authority.

WHEN CAN I REGISTER AN ARTICLE?

When a publication that contains an article is giving the numbersequence.

CAN I REGISTER AN ARTICLE WHICH WAS READ AT CONFERENCE ?

possible, if an article was published
not register which was read without publishing data

CAN I REGISTER AN ARTICLE WHICH WAS PUBLISHED AT NEWSPAPER OR INTERNET WEBSITE?

These articles are not accepted at VGTU PDB.

HOW IS COUNTED NOT REGISTER PUBLICATIONS FROM EARLIER YEARS?

Not older than 5 years publications (status-late) are counted on a current year report.
Others are counted on the basis of the date of publication of annual report.

HOW PDB PUBLICATION IS ASSIGNED TO DEPARTMENT AND POSITION?

If author works at few departments - is assigned only for one.
If author has few positions - by registration form specified position.

HOW IS COUNTED AUTHOR'S CONTRIBUTION?

Articles - by equal parts, divided by number of authors.
Books - by author quire, as indicated in the contract for printing or nuber of pages divided by 14.
If there are multiple institutions – author 's contribution still divided by the number of institutions.

HOW ARE DIVIDED PUBLICATIONS FROM WEB OF SCIENCE (CLARIVATE ANALYTICS) DATABASES?

Publications from Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) are divided by database and document type.

By database:

Article from Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (S1) – if an article posted on Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index; Arts & Humanities Citation Index; Emerging Sources Citation Index) databases.
Article from conferences Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (P1a) – if an article posten on Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Science; Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science & Humanities) databases.
Article from other Databases (S4) – if an article posted on other databases.

By document's type:

Article from Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (S1) or article from other databases (S4) – if document‘s type is Article.
Article (review, information, encyclopaedic) (S8) – if document type is Biographical-Item or Editorial materials.
Thesis from Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) (T1a) (T1c) or Thesis from international databases– if document type is Meetings, Abstracts.

WHICH YEAR PUBLICATIONS AFFECT PART OF VARIABLE SALARY?

Publications report of two calendar years – not according publishing but registration’s date.
Document (73-1.1) >>>

HOW TO CHOOSE JOURNAL FOR PUBLICATIONS?

Publisher and specefic journal credibility and recognition of international area you can set with these tools:

Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Master Journal List >>>
Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) Journals Citation Reports (JCR) >>>
The Association of Lithuanian Serials >>>
SCImago Journal & Country Rank >>>

For more information please contact Scientific Information Department via email: crypt:PGEgaHJlZj0ibWFpbHRvOnB1Ymxpa2FjaWpvc0B2Z3R1Lmx0Ij5wdWJsaWthY2lqb3NAdmd0dS5sdDwvYT4=:xx

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