Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija
The Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija or VLE is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014. VLE is the first published universal encyclopedia in independent Lithuania. The last volume, XXV, was published in July 2014. An additional volume of updates, error corrections, and indexes was published in 2015.Coordination and editing of Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija is carried by prominent Lithuanian scholars:
- prof., habil. dr. Algirdas Ambrazas;
- prof. habil. dr. Antanas Bandzaitis;
- dr. Jonas Boruta;
- prof. habil. dr. Juozapas Girdzijauskas;
- prof. habil. dr. Bronius Grigelionis;
- prof. habil. dr. Leonas Kadžiulis;
- doc. dr. Algirdas Kiselis;
- prof. habil. dr. Vytautas Kubilius
- Dr. Elvyra Janina Kunevičienė;
- prof. habil. dr. Alfonsas Skrinska;
- prof. habil. dr. Antanas Tyla;
- akad. prof. habil. dr. Zigmas Zinkevičius
Additionally, editorial-scientific boards of 23–25 scholars were established for the main science branches. In total, there were 2,957 authors.
