Doctoral (PhD) studies are third-level studies and doctoral (PhD) students are postgraduate students and researchers. The purpose of doctoral studies is to train scientists capable of performing independent scientific research and experimental development as well as able to solve scientific problems.

Doctoral (PhD) studies include PhD courses, focused research, dissertation preparation and defense. The full-time and part-time PhD studies are available at Vilnius University. The duration of a full-time PhD programme is four years, the duration of part-time PhD programme is six years.

More information about the doctoral (PhD) studies at Vilnius University.


The studies begin on the 1st of October.

Within two weeks from the beginning of the doctoral studies, a doctoral student, assisted by the supervisor, shall prepare an individual PhD studies, research, result publication and dissertation preparation plan, and the studies‘ timeline. The plan must include projected research activities and elective PhD courses that are assessed at examinations.

At the end of each year, the progress of a PhD student is reviewed. The student who does not pass the review is expelled from the PhD studies by Rector‘s Order. A PhD student may also be expelled due to the behavior that is not compatible with the ethical norms of the academic community.

The University grants the doctoral degree and issues the doctoral diploma to a person who successfully defended a dissertation. The form of a doctoral diploma and the procedure for printing, accounting, and registration of diploma forms are determined by the Government of the Republic of Lithuania.

The detailed information is provided by the Division of Doctoral and Postdoctoral studies (Vilnius University Headquarters, Universiteto g. 3, Vilnius, tel. +370 2687095, +370 2687094, +370 2687093).


PhD programme in Communication and Information

Compulsory Courses

Optional Courses


SCOPUS indexed journals

 

"Information sciences"

infomokslai th"Information sciences" is a regional journal that covers topics on information and communication such as information and knowledge society, it's legislative, technological aspects, cultural and economical problems of informtion and knowledge society, information and knowledge management questions, theoretical and practical researches on organisational communication management, investigations of culture and media, world and intercultural communication, works on scientometrics.

Since 2007, the scientific journal "Information sciences" is abstracted and indexed in the LISA international database and included in the list of Lithuanian serials that meet the requirements for scientific publications (Lithuanian Science Council, 19 December 2005, decision No. VI-39).

More about the journal you can finder under http://www.journals.vu.lt/informacijos-mokslai.

 

 

"Knygotyra"

Knygotyra thThe oldest Lithuanian university - Vilnius University - for over four decades publishes a scholarly journal "Knygotyra". It has developed from the non-periodical collections of articles published by various libraries and research institutions and in the long run has consolidated the efforts and strengths of book and library historians, researchers of literacy and printed heritage as well as investigators of modern issues of librarianship and bibliography.

The first volume was published in 1961 under the title of "Bibliotekininkystės ir bibliografijos klausimai" (Issues of librarianship and bibliography) and has changed the title to "Knygotyra" in 1970. Today "Knygotyra" is a matured and recognised journal. It is edited by a collective of international editors that includes researchers from Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Russia and Lithuania. This group works to make "Knygotyra" into a journal with world-wide reputation. The most important task and responsibility falls on the shoulders of the editors from the Institute of Book Science and Documentation at the faculty of Communication. The journal has a multi-layered structure, which comprises book science theory and methodology in the widest sense together with book historiography and source research, book art and bibliograpy, old, modern and electronic book as an object of research, but also some interdisciplinary subjects.

More about the journal you can finder under http://www.journals.vu.lt/knygotyra.

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