Arūnas Gudinavičius

Vilnius University · Faculty of Communication

Introduction. This study investigates the adoption of professional scholarly journal publishing software in Lithuania, with a focus on the trends and patterns of its use in 2020. It underscores the limited research on proprietary software and the absence of comprehensive country-specific case studies. Method. We compiled a list of sources by manual...

The research aims to evaluate the publication of scholarly journals in Lithuania, a small-language country, by analyzing the owners and publishers of scholarly journals. The results show that, since 1990, the publishing of Lithuanian scholarly journals has grown significantly: 225 scholarly journals were published in Lithuania by 73 different publi...

Watch VIDEO. Scholarly publishers in small language countries face unique challenges, such as limited funding and resources, lack of visibility and recognition, and the dominance of international commercial publishers in the global academic publishing market. Therefore, understanding the role of publishers in promoting scholarly research in small l...

There is a community of people in Lithuania who experience difficulties in reading printed books. When ebooks are scarce they are left without proper access to an important information source. Comparing the Lithuanian results with data from other contexts, we find that the availability of ebooks in Lithuania is scarcer than in other developed count...

The study analyzes legal and illegal access to e-books in Lithuanian language as one of the small language publishing markets in order to better understand the digital transformation of books in Lithuania. The range of legally and illegally publicly available online e-books in Lithuanian language was identified and analyzed in few aspects, revealin...

Purpose The current study aims to identify and explore causes and consequences of unauthorized use of books from readers', publishers', and authors' points of view. The case of Lithuania also assessed, especially historical background (banned alphabet, book smuggling, theft as the social norm in Soviet times) of the country. Design/methodology/app...

Purpose Book piracy represents a threat to the publishing industry, while for the society, book piracy provides some benefits. The purpose of this study is to examine views of readers, authors and publishers in Lithuania on book piracy’s benefits to society. Design/methodology/approach This study uses phenomenography to examine readers’, authors’...

This study seeks to reveal the attitudes of the Lithuanian adult population on using digital books and illegally distributed books and seeks to provide possible solutions to Lithuanian publishers and other institutions combating this phenomenon. A quantitative survey of 322 respondents was conducted. The analysis of the results was based on the Tec...

Despite various global and local economic crises, the shift of some readers to screen reading, growing online shopping habits, and the shorter time spent on reading books, physical bookstores are able to change and retain their customers. This research is a continuation of a 2013 study in order to capture the current situation and identify the chan...

The paper is based on a survey that was conducted among publishers in Slovakia, Iceland, Lithuania and Slovenia in May and August 2020. The paper looks at how publishers reacted to the COVID-19 crisis in their respective countries, what was its impact on book sales and how did the publishers adapt the production of new books to changed circumstance...

Introduction. Tax administrators employ various methods in order to influence taxpayers’ beliefs and behaviour, hoping to reduce tax evasion. The study seeks to identify how much detailed tax related information is required in order to affect the beliefs of taxpayers towards tax compliance. Method. A nationwide representative survey was used to mea...

One of the attempts of widening the capacities of the traditional book is the utilization of augmented reality technology. The breakthrough of using AR came about after the rise in popularity of smartphones. The current case study aims to ascertain how much is AR technology being used within book publishing in small language market, how could its a...

This was the first time that the annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) has been held outside Europe and North America in its 25-year history. The conference took place at Western Sydney University on its historic Parramatta South campus, in the multicultural heart of Western Sydney. More abou...

[straipsnis, santrauka, reikšminiai žodžiai lietuvių kalba; santrauka ir reikšminiai žodžiai anglų kalba] Prasidėjus sparčiai informacinių technologijų ir interneto plėtrai greitai buvo pastebėti atsirandantys skirtumai tarp įvairių technologijomis besinaudojančių ir nesinaudojančių visuomenės grupių ar atskirų individų. Šiems skirtumams apibrėžti...

Adapting information and communication technologies (ICTs) to countries' development is one of the important criteria for economic and social progress and public policy priorities. However, implementing this ambitious concept faces social inequalities in the use of ICT, or digital exclusion. Lithuania has several decades of experience in utilizing...

Purpose The massive growth in the number of book titles has made publishers think about how to attract a customer’s attention to particular books. This is the reason why the book cover plays an important role as a tool of communication with the reader. The research question of this exploratory study is whether the preference given by readers to boo...

Introduction. This paper reports on a study of e-books issues in academic libraries in two European countries representative of small language markets – Sweden and Lithuania. Method. Questionnaire surveys, using the same instrument, were carried out in Swedish and Lithuanian academic libraries. Analysis. Quantitative analysis was performed using th...

In the course of election campaigns politicians and political parties try their best to highlight their most favored topics that would help them draw public attention and increase people’s regard for specific political figures. In contrast to the positive communication content announced during an election campaign, candidates sometimes choose negat...

Non-intrusive experimentation and measurements can be obtained from the latest neuroscience scanning techniques and technologies. Such technologies are now quite affordable and could possibly be used for the reading process research in information and communication sciences. The research experiment focuses on measuring the changes in attention whil...

The survey on the training and professional development needs of Lithuanian publishers was designed and conducted. The pilot research showed that publishers in Lithuania have an interest in professional training. According to the results, the need for training among the employees of Lithuanian publishing houses depends on the previous training expe...

Nors knyga pirmiausiai skirta Vilniaus universiteto Komunikacijos fakulteto Kultūros komunikacijos ir informacijos, Leidybos ir reklamos, Verslo informacijos vadybos bei Žurnalistikos bakalauro studijų programų studentams, nagrinėjantiems šiuolaikinių medijų naudojimo ir šiuolaikinių informacijos išteklių vartojimo klausimus, tačiau tekstą siekta p...

Purpose/thesis; The aim of the research paper is to outline web usability evaluation based on eye tracking and to determine the usability of the website of the National Museum - Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania from the user perspective in the process of searching for the most required Information. Approach/methods; A literature analysis was...

There has been much speculation in the past years about self-publishing. Some argue that publishing houses do not have a future as publishing service providers. Others claim that it is very easy to publish a book as an e-book. There are many success stories of self-publishers. More and more authors are wondering if they actually need a publisher an...

Research on ebook availability in Lithuania (in national online bookstores and on the websites of academic institutions) was carried out and aspects of the ebook market there in 2014 were analysed. The main ebook retailers and publishers (including academic ones) in Lithuania were identified, ebooks in the Lithuanian language on sale were counted,...

Introduction. The aim of the research was to increase understanding of the state of e-book production in Lithuania and collect the data about the opinions of publishers regarding the future of e-books in the country. Method. A review of similar surveys in other countries was carried out and the research method was based on Winston’s model of innova...

Abstract(s) The research of which the results are presented in this paper is funded by a grant from the Research Council of Lithuania under the project Research on increasing the attractivity and optimizing virtual access of Lithuanian national museums (LitMus-Web), No. MIP-093./2013 / LSS-160000-1484. The main aim of the research project was to ex...

Tikslas – išanalizuoti vienos iš naujųjų informacinių komunikacinių technologijų – skaitmeninių žurnalų planšetiniams kompiuteriams leidybos 2011-2012 metų Lietuvos situaciją, taip padedant pagrindą tokių technologijų galimybių ir ateities perspektyvų rinkoje įvertinimui.Metodologija – tyrimo metodika grindžiama apibendrinimo bei palyginamosios ana...

The aim of this paper is to analyze several aspects of digital publishing markets in Baltic countries. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have their own languages, so there are three different publishing markets. Results show that there are significant differences in the number of available titles, despite the fact that the Baltic e-book market is relat...

Purpose. The focus of this article is to explore the differences in task completion time between National museum websites when user is searching for important information to him and after taking measures and analysis of the results to produce conclusions and reco Design/methodology/approach. The research was done with all four Lithuanian national m...

Vilniaus universiteto Knygotyros ir dokumentotyros institutas Universiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lietuva El. paštas: arunas.gudinavicius@gmail.com Straipsnyje remiantis literatūroje ir šaltiniuose pateikiama empirine medžiaga analizuojamos skaitmeninių knygų atsiradimo prielaidos, išskiriami svarbiausi skaitmeninės knygos raidos faktai. Pagal pr...

Vilniaus universiteto Knygotyros ir dokumentotyros institutasUniversiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, LietuvaEl. paštas: arunas.gudinavicius@gmail.com; laima_naktinyte@yahoo.comStraipsnyje nagrinėjamos Lietuvos leidėjų 2000–2009 metais išleistos garsinės knygos kompaktinėse plokštelėse. Apibrėžiama garsinės knygos sąvoka, klasifikavimo kriterijai. Tiri...

Vilniaus universiteto Knygotyros ir dokumentotyros institutas Universiteto g. 3, LT-01513 Vilnius, Lietuva El. paštas: arunas.gudinavicius@gmail.com Straipsnyje identifikuojami jau įgyvendinti ir prieinami internete skaitmeninti rankraštinio paveldo rinkiniai (svetainės). Tiriama, kaip jie atitinka geros praktikos standartus ir tarptautines rekome...