VU Library has updated Digital Collections webpage, so when visiting it, users might notice easier and simpler search options, more convenient display of search results. Undoubtedly, users will be happy to find research periodicals published in the 20th and 21st that have been added to the webpage in digital form within the EODOPEN project.
Simpler search options
One of the most noticeable improvements to the webpage is the fundamentally updated search. Automatic search suggestions are being provided when searching for a document based on keywords, while the search itself provides more accurate results.
Updates to viewing search results should make things easier for researchers, as it now includes more metadata, making it significantly easier to find the content. Besides that, the webpage allows the search not only for books or other digital objects, but also for the collections themselves.
The webpage also has a number of functionality improvements that make it faster, while better viewing of digital object make it easier both to navigate through the pages of a book and look through the text of scanned books in a more convenient way.
Documents of EODOPEN collection
An option to use research periodicals that were published in the 20th-21st century and were digitised within the EODOPEN project is yet another new addition to Digital Collections webpage. A five-year lasting EODOPEN project, the participant of which was VU Library, unites 15 European libraries, aiming to digitise and make available for the European netizens 15,000 documents and literary creations from the 20th-21st century. All these documents, including books and from now on research periodicals, are available through Digital Collections webpage, in the EODOPEN Collection.
We would also like to point out that the Digital Collections webpage allows to browse and search for documents in Rare Books, Manuscripts, Graphics and Photography collections – the main collections that are available in here – that are intended for studies, research or cultural education. The most valuable documents that are kept at the Library, including incunabula, archives of the Lithuanian nobility, early Lithuanian printings, historical maps, photographs made by distinguished photographers and other objects of cultural heritage of exceptional value, are now made available to the public.
Digital collections: https://kolekcijos.biblioteka.vu.lt/en
2022-12-01