Online Services

Access to subscribed electronic resources: access is provided to 174,000 e-books and 16,000 academic journals from 11 international subscription databases (EBSCO Publishing, EBSCO eBooks, Taylor & Francis, Emerald Management), as well as more than 3,000 Lithuanian e-textbooks from three subscription databases (VGTU, KTU, VitaeLitera), 20,000 LST electronic standards, and legal acts available in the Infolex database. Subscription databases can be accessed using the higher education institution’s email username and password via the Virtual Library: http://vb.kaunokolegija.lt/.

Access to the higher education institution’s electronic resources: Final theses of students of the higher education institution are available in the institutional repository: http://dspace.kaunokolegija.lt (access requires logging in with the higher education institution’s email account); open-access academic journals and international conference proceedings of the higher education institution are available through the OJS system: http://ojs.kaunokolegija.lt/; publications registered by the higher education institution and the library catalogue are available in the Virtual Library: http://vb.kaunokolegija.lt.

Access to open-access resources: A selection of the best open-access electronic resources for study and research is available under Electronic Resources: http://biblioteka.kaunokolegija.lt/istekliai/elektroniniai-istekliai/

In the Virtual Library http://vb.kaunokolegija.lt/, you can:

• find information about books held by the library and, after logging in to your account, order them or join a waiting list;
• log in to your account to view a list of borrowed books and their due dates, and renew borrowed books.

Library reminders about returning books are sent only to the higher education institution’s email accounts and are generated automatically by the Alma library system. If you do not receive reminders, please contact biblioteka@go.kauko.lt.

• Information and news are available on the library website and social media (Facebook, Instagram).
• Library news is sent to the higher education institution’s email accounts (if you do not receive the news, go to your higher education institution email settings and select membership in the Library News group, i.e. tick the corresponding checkbox).

Consultations and assistance, as well as book renewals by email: biblioteka@go.kauko.lt

Online training and individual consultations for students via Google Meet. Information about group training sessions is provided in the Library News. For individual or additional training, please contact: biblioteka@go.kauko.lt.

Online seminars and training for lecturers and staff (Dissemination of Research, Intellectual Property and Copyright, Use of Scientific Information, Plagiarism Prevention and Detection, etc.). For training enquiries, please contact Lina Šarlauskienė.

Library guide for first-year students: Library Guide

Library guide on how to use library services and resources: Library Guide 2026/2027

Learning materials for the higher education institution’s community in Moodle: Academic Literacy

Library educational videos on YouTube: Educational Videos

Electronic publications:

• Šarlauskienė, L. (2018). Informacijos šaltinių naudojimas studijų ir mokslo darbuose: mokomoji priemonė. Kauno kolegija. https://kaunokolegija.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/370KUOAS_INST/hv82rj/alma992346389307111
• Daubarienė, J. (2018). Literatūros analizė studijų darbuose. Kauno kolegija. https://kaunokolegija.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/delivery/370KUOAS_INST:KK/1261352920007111

Other online learning materials:

• Efektyvus elektroninių mokslo informacijos išteklių naudojimas: Nacionalinio projekto eMoDB.LT mokomoji medžiaga tyrėjams ir studentams [interaktyvus]. 2019. Atviroji prieiga: https://open.ktu.edu/course/view.php?id=37
• Medijų ir informacinis raštingumas: mokymosi kursas moksleiviams, studentams ir besidomientiems [interaktyvus]. 2019. Atviroji prieiga: http://rastingumas.biblioteka.vu.lt/

Independent registration of publications and compilation of publication lists in the eLABa Publications Database: https://www.elaba.lt. Lecturers should log in to the eLABa Publications Database using their higher education institution email credentials. For consultations or information by email, please contact Ramunė Bernotė.

Text similarity checking of the higher education institution’s publications using the Turnitin tool (responsible person: Lina Šarlauskienė). Student papers are checked in the Moodle environment. Lecturers are responsible for conducting these checks.