About the Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH)
VILNIUS TECH is one of the leading academic publishers in Lithuania.
VILNIUS TECH is a member of official Digital Object Identifier Registration Agency of the International DOI Foundation (Crossref), The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) and Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA).
The VILNIUS TECH publishes research and study publications, scientific journals, doctoral dissertations and conference proceedings in both print and digital format. All research and study publications are peer reviewed and edited. VILNIUS TECH strives to use advanced technologies and implements innovations of scholarly communication to ensure the highest quality of research journals and other publications publishing.
VILNIUS TECH registers Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and deposit metadata for all published digital content. It ensures the creation of persistent links to publications and also expands the reach and discovery of the scholarly content.
The VILNIUS TECH publishes 15 open access peer reviewed scientific journals. 7 of them are in the field of physical and technology sciences, 5 in the social sciences, and 3 are multidisciplinary. VILNIUS TECH use Open Journal Systems (OJS) platform. It is an open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals. Some journals implement peer review process by using ScholarOne Manuscripts platform. In process of scholarly publishing, VILNIUS TECH applies Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing of Committee’s on Publication Ethics (COPE). The University is proud of one of VILNIUS TECH journal’s has a membership of COPE.
VILNIUS TECH supports Open Access and makes all published articles freely available and reusable. From the year 2018 all articles are published under CC-BY 4.0 licence.
VILNIUS TECH understands the importance of core principles of scholarly communication and puts an effort in publishing articles as soon as possible after acceptance. VILNIUS TECH journals operate a continuous publication model so articles are published as soon as they are ready. The university supports Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC) striving to promote the unrestricted availability of scholarly citation data.
VILNIUS TECH deposits the articles that it publishes in digital archives Portico, CLOCKSS, LOCKSS to guarantee long-term digital preservation.
VILNIUS TECH research journals are indexed in various databases. 10 journals are indexed in Clarivate Analytics Web of Science, 7 of the has Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and 3 are included in Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index). Thirteen journals are indexed in SCOPUS database.
Updated May 10, 2021