Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija

[1] An additional volume of updates, error corrections, and indexes was published in 2015.

Since June 2017, VLE is published as an online encyclopedia being updated to present day.

Much space in the VLE is devoted to topics banned or ignored during the Soviet era: Lithuanian statehood, the history of the Catholic Church, the army, Lithuania's resistance to Nazi and Soviet occupation, the history of the Lithuanian state, Lithuania Minor.

[4] Juozapas Girdzijauskas stated that VLE "will objectively acquaint the society with the world's culture, capture the modern level of science, promote the humanistic values of humanity, and help the Lithuanian people to overcome the Soviet ideology".

Coordination and editing of Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija is carried by prominent Lithuanian scholars: Additionally, editorial-scientific boards of 23–25 scholars were established for the main science branches.