Kaunas University of Technology

Gene Duobiniene, Library DirectorGintare Tautkeviciene, Head of Information Services

Department

KTU LibraryKTU Library

Was founded in 1923 01 01;

Collection – 1,33 mln. volumes;

Readers – 23 thousand per year;

169 computers (96 – for users);

more than 1 mln. items are borrowed per year;

64 full time employees.

KTU LibraryKTU Library

Central and 6 faculty libraries;

10 reading rooms with 543 seats including 96 computers for users;

Group study room;

Interlibrary loan services;

DB “Publications” – 41 thousand scientific publications;

Computer catalogue –119257 records (361450 items);

Partnership in Projects

Since 1997 the Library participates and is an active partner in a project “Development of Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network” (LABT) ratified by Lithuanian Rectors’ Conference and financed by the Government.

The continuation of LABT - “The Conception of LABT Development: Lithuanian Virtual Library”. The project is an integral part of the main program “Lithuanian Virtual University” financed by the Ministry of Education and Science.

E-resources at KTU

• Subscription to e-resources - 44 DB (ISI Web of Knowledge, EBSCO Publishing, ScienceDirect, Emerald Fulltext, SpringerLINK, Oxford Journals, IEEE/IEL, American Institute of Physics, American Physical Society, Institute of Physics Journals, SAGE Journals, Wiley Interscience, Annual Reviews, Bentham Science Publishers, Morgan & Claypool, ACS Publications, Ebrary, etc.).

• Access to:

– 22,8 thousand peer-review journals,

– 137 000 full-text conference proceedings,

– 19 000 e-books.

Lithuanian Research Library Consortium

• founded on December 4, 2001

• 47 members, including national, academic, county, public and research institute libraries.

• The objectives: creation of virtual library, preparation and implementation of advanced technology and innovative projects in the libraries; subscription to electronic databases for Consortium members and other libraries.

eMoDB.LT: the opening of scientific resource databases to Lithuania

• project permits an access to full-text e. resources to Cosortium members;

• budget - 30 mln. Lt. (~ 8,68 mln. EUR).

Main activities scheduled in the Project are: 

• to subscribe 60 full-text data bases;

• to create learning modules of usage of electronic resources;

• information literacy education to researchers and students (Master’s and Doctor’s studies).

Lithuanian Virtual Library, http://www.lvb.lt

Open Access movement in Lithuania (1)Workshops :

• Open Access and Scholarly Communication, 2005 /

LMBA, OSI; speakers Melissa Hagemann, Raym Crow, Lilian van der Vaart, Jean-Claude Guédon, et al.

• Open Access - Revolution in the Scholarly Publishing / LMBA, LABT. 2005

• OA in EU and Lithuania/ SPARC, LMBA, the Ministry of Education and Science. 2008

• Quality Assurance of Scientific Information in Open Access / Open Access Day – October 14, 2008/ the Ministry of Education and Science, the Research Council of Lithuania, LMBA

Conferences:

Open Access section at the conference “Innovation and Creativity in e-learning”, 2009, Lituanian Virtual University

Open access movement in Lithuania (2)• State level: Law on science and studies (May, 2009).

• Article 45. Publicity of the results of scientific activity:

1. In order to guarantee the quality, transparency of the scientific research and to stimulate scientific advancement carried out utilising state budget funds, all the results of the scientific activity carried out in the state science and study institutions must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial, state or work related secrets.

2. Results of scientific activity carried out at non-governmental institutions of science and studies using state budget funds must be made public (via the internet and by other means) if this is in agreement with laws regulating intellectual property and protection of the commercial or state secret.

• Institutional level: – Regulations of Open Access to Scientific Information of Vilnius University

(accepted by the University Senate Committee in October, 2009).

– Regulations of Vytautas Magnus University study and research documents submitted to eLABA

Open Access movement in Lithuania (3)

Lithuanian ETD Project designed in the framework of the UNESCO program, 2004.

Three National projects partially funded by European Structural Funds were run in 2005–2008:

• Creation of Lithuanian Electronic Publishing System;

• Lithuanian Virtual Library: Development and Creation of Full-text Database;

• Science and Study E-documents: Storage and their Presentation to Users.

Institutional repository eLABa – Lithuanian electronic academic library, http://elaba.library.lt

eLABa – Lithuanian electronic academic library, http://elaba.library.lt

eLABa in the international projects

• NDLTD (The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations);

• OpenAIRE (Open Access Infrastructure for Research in Europe);

• DART-Europe;

• DRIVER;

• PEER (Publishing and the Ecology of European Research);

• BASE.

Information Literacy Education on the Internet

• Web-based Information Literacy Education Course in Physics and Chemistry (DEDICATE), 1999, http://biblioteka.ktu.edu/kursai/default1.htm

• Blended information literacy course “Information Research” for Master’s students taking the education course, since 2004, http://webct.liedm.lt/

• Information Literacy Course in virtual environment WebCT “Information Resources for Studies and Research”, 2007, http://webct.liedm.lt/

• Information Literacy Course on the Internet “Information Resources for Studies and Research”, 2008, http://biblioteka.ktu.edu/kursas/default.html

Web-based Information Literacy Education Courses in Physics and Chemistry http://biblioteka.ktu.edu/kursai/default1.htm

Blended Information Literacy Course “Information Research” for Master’s Students in Education, http://webct.liedm.lt

Information Literacy Course in virtual environment WebCT, http://webct.liedm.lt/

“Information Resources for Studies and Research”, http://biblioteka.ktu.edu/kursas/default.html

Subject Directory, http://biblioteka.ktu.edu/istekliai/katalogas.htm

Library website:http://www.ktu.lt/biblioteka (LT)

http://en.ktu.lt/content/structure/library (EN)

Contacts:gene.duobiniene@ktu.lt

gintare.tautkeviciene@ktu.lt