About the project

The development of the database Lituanistika was financed by the European Union Structural Funds and State funds. Since 2006, the Research Council of Lithuanian (RCL) has prepared four projects. For the period of 2016−2021, the RCL has signed the Financing Agreement with the European Social Fund Agency (ESFA) and implemented the project “The Development of the Database Lituanistika” (09.3.3-ESFA-V-711-01-0002). The project was implemented under the implementing measure “Strengthening the Capacity of Scientists and Other Researchers” of the priority axis 9 “Educating the Society and Strengthening the Potential of Human Resources” of the Operational Programme for the European Union Funds’ Investments in 2014–2020. The need for the project was declared by the Decree of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania No. 1372 of 14 November 2012 “On the Approval of Directions of the Lithuanian Studies Research Development 2012-2020” and the order of the Minister of Education and Research of the Republic of Lithuania No. V-395 of 10 May 2013 “On the Approval of the Plan of the Implementation Measures for Directions of the Lithuanian Studies Research Development 2012−2020”.

In the above-mentioned documents, a strategic priority is given to the Lithuanian research and studies, which address the key challenges related to the development of the national identity and the development of the nation; emphasize the factor contributing to the quality of the Lithuanian research, i.e. an effective system of peer review of scientific works, clarification of evaluation criteria, and highly qualified experts. Emphasis is also placed on modern infrastructure: the dissemination of data by modern means and a well-functioning open access database, which ensures opportunities for Lithuanian material to enter into a national and international academic space, the international dissemination of research results and a wider international and national visibility for authors of research.

Project objectives:

• To accumulate and disseminate information (also ensure its long-term storage) on research production in Humanities and Social Sciences published in Lithuanian and abroad in various languages, which focuses on the past and present of the State of Lithuania, its society and culture, the Lithuanian nation and language (as a part of the world’s knowledge);
• To implement the criteria for research work quality assessment, to form high research work quality as a goal per se and develop the self-esteem of research work quality.

Results:

• Over more than ten years, the database Lituanistika (hereinafter – LDB) has become a well-functioning open access infrastructure of results and dissemination of the research in the field of Lithuanian studies, which plays an increasingly important role in the international scientific cyberspace and science policy.
• In the database users can find more than 97,9 thousand records of publications in the field of Lithuanian studies and read over 63 thousand open access full texts. More than 45 thousand summaries have been prepared and translated. More than 70 thousand publications were assessed by means of expert evaluation or regulative evaluation.
• The database is integrated into the Virtual Library of Lithuania (www.lvb.lt); into international search engines „OpenAIRE“; „Google Scholar“; the DBL is integrated into the international open access registers OPEN DOAR and ROAR.
• Main scientific and dissemination publications:
  • Adomėnas, M., Chmieliausas, A., Čepas, A, Čičinskas, J., Jokubaitis, A., Kolesinskienė, N., Kraniauskienė, S., Krupavičius, A., Satkauskytė, D., Stundžienė, D., Tautkevičienė, G., Trimakas, R., Valikonytė, I., Vaškelis, G., Zabarskaitė J. (2007). Tarptautinė mokslinė duomenų bazė „Lituanistika“: Galimybių studija, Kaunas, Technologija.
  • Lukšaitė, I. (2008). Kokybinis humanitarinių ir socialinių mokslo darbų vertinimas Lietuvoje ir duomenų bazė „Lituanistika“. Mokslo Lietuva, Nr. 13 (391).
  • Bloveščiūnienė, L., Marcinkevičienė, R., Kolesinskienė, N. Štreimikis, A. (2011). Duomenų bazės „Lituanistika“ plėtros gairės. In Aukštasis mokslas: IKT diegimo projektai, konferencija 2011 m. gruodžio 14 d., Kaunas. 1–11.
  • Bloveščiūnienė, L., Petrauskaitė, R. (2013). From Bibliographic to Full Text Open Access Database on Lithuanian Studies. Sciecominfo: Nordic-Baltic Forum for Scientific Communication, 9 (2), 1–3.
  • Kancewicz-Hoffman N. (2013). Reportofanexpertonthedatabase „Lituanistika“.
  • Leeuwen, T. (2013). Review of the Database of Lithuanian Studies.
  • Sivertsen, G. (2013). Report on the database „Lituanistika“.
  • Stojanovski, J. (2013). Report on the database „Lituanistika“.
  • Bloveščiūnienė, L., Štreimikis, A. (2014). The “Lituanistika” Databaseas a Research Infrastructure for Lithuanian Studies. In LIBER 43 rd Annual Conference. 2–5 July 2014, Riga (Latvia): Abstract.
  • Petrauskaitė, R. (2015). The Multifunctional Thematic Database Lituanistika. Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and ScientificH eritage, (V), 73–78.
  • Lukšaitė, I. (2016). Apie pagrindinius lituanistikos mokslo darbų kokybinio vertinimo kriterijus. Vaizdo įrašas.
  • Sīle, L., Guns, R. and Engels, T. (2017). European Databases and Repositories for Social Sciences and Humanities Research. Antwerp: ECOOM & ENRESSH. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.5172322.
  • Krupavičius, A. (Ed.) (2018). Lituanistikos duomenų bazė: ekspertinio vertinimo analizė: apžvalga-studija. Vilnius : Lietuvos mokslo taryba.