Information, documentation and bibliographic resources center.
The Unit's mandate is to satisfy information and documentation needs related to its academic, teaching or research activities through the provision of printed, digital or multimedia resources.
It offers various library services, such as the loan of printed bibliographic material from its own collection or from available interlibrary services and access to digital resources, among others, aimed at the university community (students, professors, researchers, interns, administrative employees, residents), strategic partners, external researchers, visitors and the community in general.
Description
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity in graduate higher education is a critical success factor, not only to assess the performance and compliance of the people directly involved in the teaching-learning process (students, teachers, researchers, among others), but it is also related to the process of elaboration, development and validation of the means and instruments used to promote it, the educational model, the policies and commitments established regarding academic integrity and institutional management as a whole. According to Turnitin (2021), collusion, copying and pasting, alteration of sources, paraphrasing without attribution and falsification of data are examples of common behaviors that generate unoriginal work.
The UCI has established in its internal regulations that academic fraud and plagiarism are very serious offenses that automatically trigger disciplinary proceedings. However, he agrees with Lee (2022) that fear of disciplinary action should not be the only reason to avoid these bad practices. On the contrary, bringing academic integrity practices closer to all those involved should be part of the general and permanent educational intentionality of the University to consolidate a community dedicated to learning and the exchange of ideas, guarantor of essential values such as honesty, respect and responsibility (Holden, Norris and Kuhlmeier, 2021) as well as a mechanism to mitigate the academic reputation risks involved.
UCI adopts, enhances and regenerates a series of good practices, which seek to promote academic integrity and reduce associated risks, in order to shape a culture of academic and research integrity. For example, the following:
1. Mandatory due attribution and acknowledgment of authorship of persons or organizations.
2. Adoption of best practice frameworks, such as the COPE editorial standards to promote transparency in academic publishing.
3. To ensure the updating of the institutional regulations and general policies applicable.
4. Promote the adoption of good practices among stakeholders.
5. Promote respect, joint work and fair treatment, without distinction or discrimination, to the members of the learning and practice communities.
6. Promote the use of computer and ICT facilities in general to promote and strengthen individual and collaborative digital competencies.
7. Periodic publications involving peer review.
APA Style Guidelines
Institutional Policy - Adopted Style Guide
The University for International Cooperation uses as a style standard for the writing and communication of scientific and academic papers or articles, the standards of the American Psychological Association, known as the APA Standards, in its most recent version, especially referring to the rules of in-text citation, bibliographic references, anti-plagiarism considerations derived and formatting conditions of articles and papers.
Resources for consultation and self-education APA Standards 7th Edition
1.- Guides and brochures - APA official site (English) https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/handouts-guides
2.-APA Manual 7th Edition: New Standards for Writing, Citation and Referencing - Universidad del Caribe https://www.caribbean.edu/Base_de_datos/Nuevas_Normas_del_Manual_APA7.pdf
3.- WEB site APA Standard 7 ed. https://normas-apa.org/estructura/
4.- Other rules of style https://normas-apa.org/otras-normas-y-estilos-de-escritura-de-articulos-academicos/
Individual document managers
A bibliographic reference manager is a tool that allows the creation of personal databases of bibliographic references. The manager imports such references from any database, journal, etc. or allows manual registration, generating bibliographies by selecting the style format (APA, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.), which is adapted to the one required in periodical publications, as well as providing facilities for citing while writing.
Whether for student, teaching or research purposes, use one of these tools to keep bibliographic references organized and available when needed, to avoid transcription or typographical errors, and to facilitate the creation of bibliographies and citations within the document.
Zotero is a bibliographic reference manager that allows you to store, organize, tag and style bibliographic references for citation while writing essays, articles and other work, and to create bibliographies. It is free, open source, free of charge, and is available in Spanish and 30 other languages. It is compatible with various operating systems: Mac, Windows and Linux. https://www.zotero.org/
Mendeley is a digital bibliographic manager that helps you manage documents, read, annotate and cite while writing your research papers, and is a research tool for working collaboratively on documents shared by private groups. It is compatible with several operating systems: Mac, Windows and Linux. It has desktop versions for computers and mobile applications. https://www.mendeley.com/?interaction_required=true
Contact us at
Direct contact to the UCI Documentation Center:
Phone: +506 22836464
Email: biblioteca@uci.ac.cr
Schedule: M to F, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.)
Open Access Documentary Databases
The following is a selection of multidisciplinary databases that provide free digital access to research articles, specialized journals, books, theses, among other format options. The Unit's mandate is to satisfy information and documentation needs related to its academic, teaching or research activities, through the provision of printed, digital or multimedia resources.
It offers various library services, such as the loan of printed bibliographic material from its own collection or from available interlibrary services and access to digital resources, among others, aimed at the university community (students, professors, researchers, interns, administrative employees, residents), strategic partners, external researchers, visitors and the community in general. We consider this approach as a viable, democratic and inclusive mechanism.
Open Access Directories: Exploring the World of Open Access
Open Access promotes the free and unrestricted availability of scientific research on the Internet, with the objective of increasing its accessibility and impact.
The Kímuk repository, supported by CONARE, offers online access to national academic production to promote the country's scientific and technological development.
MDPI, a pioneer in open access scholarly publishing, has supported academic communities since 1996. MDPI encourages open scientific exchange in all forms and across all disciplines, ensuring that the latest research is freely available.
SIDALC is an international alliance that facilitates access to agricultural information and online bibliographic services produced in the Americas, managed by IICA.
Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, aquatic sciences or nutrition.FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) bibliographic database containing information on articles, papers, data, statistics and reports on agricultural sciences and technologies.
Subject areas: Physics, mathematics, computer science, biology, finance, statistics, electrical engineering, systems science and economics.
Subject areas: Engineering in general. Bibliographic database of the American Society for Mechanical Engineering, which has articles and digital books in open access.
The repository includes resources on a variety of topics such as governance, democracy, poverty, sustainable development, innovation, technology, gender, economics and finance.
Multidisciplinary. Operated by the Bielefeld University Library, one of the world's largest search engines, especially for academic web resources.
Biology, biomedicine, medicine, criminology and criminal justice, earth sciences, education, energy, engineering, environment, life sciences, mathematics, medicine and public health, pharmacy, philosophy, physics, psychology, social sciences. BMC is a publisher of 291 peer-reviewed open access journals in Science, Technology and Medicine.
We are a development bank committed to improving the quality of life of all Latin Americans and Caribbean people. Our actions promote sustainable development and regional integration.
Anthropocene Coasts, Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, Arctic Science, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Botany, Geotechnics, Animal Science, Chemistry and Civil Engineering. Publications Division of Canadian Science Publishing.
ECLAC's mandate is to promote and develop research and teaching in the social sciences, as well as to strengthen exchange and cooperation among institutions and researchers within and outside the region.
Sociohumanística, a collaborative initiative of the Latin American and Caribbean Network of Social Sciences Virtual Libraries based on the open access philosophy. They offer free access to articles, working papers, books, papers, theses and journals, as well as audiovisual productions.
CORE's mission is to aggregate all open access research worldwide and provide unrestricted access for all to enrich scholarly data using cutting-edge text and data mining technologies to aid discovery.
The DBLP Computer Library is a popular online reference for information on major computer publications. It has evolved from a small early experimental web server to a popular open data service for the entire computing community.
Basic and experimental sciences, Environment, Biological sciences, Health sciences, Agriculture and food, Technologies, Economics and business, Legal sciences, Social sciences, Psychology and education, Humanities, Art, Philology.
Dimensions contains more than 100 million publications, ranging from journal articles, books and book chapters to preprints and conference proceedings.
Business Administration, Computer Science, Education, Civil Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Art and Architecture, among others. DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides open access to more than 20,000 journals and more than 6.8 million peer-reviewed, indexed articles.
DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides open access to more than 20,000 journals and more than 6.8 million peer-reviewed, indexed articles.
Elsevier supports sustainable access to quality research along with access initiatives to ensure that everyone can read, use and trust the latest research.
A tool of the Institute of Education Science, a division of the U.S. Department of Education, that provides access to bibliographic records and information on articles, books, conferences and other documents related to education.
EuroPub is a comprehensive, multi-purpose database covering scholarly literature, with indexed records of active and authoritative journals, and indexes journal articles from around the world.
Accounting, finance, architecture, housing, urban planning, landscape architecture, medicine, natural sciences, social sciences, law, education, art, humanities, engineering, among others. HathiTrust is a non-profit collaboration of academic and research libraries preserving more than 17 million digitized items.
Biological sciences, medicine, physical sciences, social and educational sciences, mathematics, engineering and computer science.
IDEAS is the largest bibliographic database dedicated to Economics and freely available on the Internet.
By engaging computer engineers, scientists, academics and industry professionals from all areas of computing, the IEEE Computer Society (CS) sets the standard for education and engagement that drives continued global technological advancement.
Environmental Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, Neuroscience, Chemistry, Information and Computer Sciences, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Engineering, Materials Science, Mathematics, Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials, Physics, Robotics, Technology, Business Administration and Economics.
The Internet Archive is a non-profit organization that has been building a multidisciplinary digital library of Internet sites and other artifacts in digital format since 1996. Like a paper library, it provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, students, and the public.or in general.
J-STAGE is an electronic journal platform for scientific and technological information in Japan, developed and managed by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST).
Access the ILO digital repository, where hundreds of thousands of ILO books, journal articles, reports, working papers and more are available online. ILO Publications: Books, reports, guides and manuals, working papers, journals and more ILO Meetings
Subject areas: Covers all disciplines, classified into seven major groups: Arts and Humanities; Agricultural Sciences; Engineering; Natural Sciences; Medical Sciences; Social Sciences; and Multidisciplinary.
Thematic areas: scientific research; the definition and characteristics of an academic journal; theoretical approaches on which journals are based; the notion of quality and the models and criteria for its evaluation; the role of article and journal quality measurements in the evaluation of academic research.
The Reference gives visibility to the scientific production of higher education and research institutions in Latin America, promotes Open and Free Access to the full text, with special emphasis on the results financed with public funds.
The goal of the Listing of Open Access Databases (LOADB) is to create a web-enabled, linked, categorized and classified collection of Open Access Databases that can be accessed from a single portal.
Books published by NAP cover science and engineering, education, transportation, aeronautics, energy, computers, agriculture, among others. National Academies Press (NAP).
OECD iLibrary is the central knowledge base of OECD expertise. The OECD publishes its recommendations, analysis and data in this library to help inform policy makers, researchers and analysts to implement the best possible responses in their countries.
.OAPEN promotes and supports the transition to open access for scholarly books by providing open infrastructure services to stakeholders in scholarly communication.
One of the world's largest open scholarly record collections, key to fostering open science and establishing its practices in everyday research activities.
OpenScienceDirectory.net is a database containing more than 10,000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities.
Platform developed by the Open Education Network, which publishes books that have been authorized by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted.
Arts and Humanities, Law, Medicine and Health, Science and Mathematics, Social Sciences. The Oxford University Press (OUP) includes publications since 2004 of open access, with research of the highest quality.
Engineering, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, earth sciences, architecture, economics, accounting, education, among others.
SCIRP is one of the largest publishers of open access journals. It currently publishes more than 200 open access, online, peer-reviewed journals covering a wide range of academic disciplines.
It includes a portfolio of 130 fully open access Springer-affiliated journals in all areas of science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences - a place to publish open access journals.
It indexes more than 200 million scholarly articles from publisher associations, data providers and web crawls.
IUCN resources share the knowledge gathered by its global community of more than 18,000 experts. They include databases, tools, standards, guidelines and policy recommendations.
Journals - Periodicals: Exploring journals and periodicals in Open Access Directories.
BMC is a publisher of 291 peer-reviewed open access journals in Science, Technology and Medicine.
e-Revistas is a project with the purpose of contributing to the dissemination and visibility of scientific journals published in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal, of any discipline and in any language.
UNAM It is a tool where it is possible to access and search publications by areas of knowledge, such as biotechnology, earth sciences, engineering or others, and access articles in full text.
CSIC of Spain is based on providing information on agriculture, earth sciences, engineering and technology, medicine, social sciences, humanities, among others.
The content of the SciELO network includes research articles, review articles, research-related communications, case studies, editorials, among others.
SSRN is dedicated to the rapid global dissemination of research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks.
Wiley Open Access publishes authoritative peer-reviewed open access journals in many research disciplines.
Thesis and Dissertation Repositories: Exploring Academic Knowledge
EBSCO's open dissertations offer an innovative approach to make them more visible, cited and generate additional traffic to institutional repositories.
EThOS is the UK's national thesis service that aims to maximize the visibility and availability of UK doctoral research theses.
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is an international organization dedicated to promoting the adoption, creation, use, dissemination and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
ProQuest, the company's portfolio of assets, including content and technologies, generates better research results for users.
Digital Commons Network collects free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges around the world.
Virginia Tech has been a world leader in electronic thesis and dissertation initiatives. Since then, Virginia Tech graduate students have been able to prepare, submit, review, and publish their theses and dissertations online.
General Digital Libraries: Exploring Knowledge without Borders
SINABI is a network of libraries spread throughout the country, consisting of the National Library and the Network of Public Libraries. SINABI also manages the National ISBN Agency and the National ISSN Agency.
The World Digital Library makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, important fundamental materials from cultures around the world.
The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world, with more than 138 million documents and millions of audiovisual information resources.
It is an open-access European digital library that brings together already digitized contributions from renowned cultural institutions in the 27 member countries of the European Union. Its holdings include books, films, paintings, newspapers, sound archives, maps, manuscripts and other archives.
The digital library of the IIDH is a repository of selected, structured, systematized and digitized digital texts including journals, articles and books published by the IIDH and other entities.
CCAD's work is reflected in the various documents it produces. This section compiles these documents, which are arranged alphabetically. For specific files, please use the search engine.
The main activity of the IPCC is to provide at regular intervals assessment reports on the state of knowledge on climate change.
At NOAA the disciplines covered include Climate and Atmospheric Sciences, oceanography, ocean engineering, nautical cartography, marine ecology, marine resources, ecosystems, coastal studies, aeronomy, geodesy, cartography, mathematics and statistics.
PreventionWeb serves the information needs of various research and professional communities such as disaster risk reduction, environmental management, development planning, among others.
Books, journals, monographs, working papers, poverty reduction, development effectiveness, sustainable development, innovation in citizen services, competitiveness, technology and innovation, digital transformation, gender and diversity, macroeconomics, trade and finance, among others.
IDRC's Digital Library is a global open-access repository of research results and documents generated on a wide range of International Development topics.
An information center for disaster risk reduction, with more than 10,000 publications, multimedia products and educational resources.
UNESCO builds peace in the minds of people, in particular by “advancing mutual knowledge and understanding and encouraging cooperation among the nations in all branches of intellectual activity including … the exchange of publications, objects of artistic and scientific interest and other information materials.
Books, periodicals and other materials are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) Library and made available to the public.
Global Environment Outlook (GEO) is a series of environmental reports published periodically by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).
The United Nations digital library has content related to the world and security, economic and social development, human rights, humanitarian affairs and international law.
UCI Magazines
REGENERATIO
The first issue of REGENERATIO is composed of seven articles, contributions from academics linked to UCI and Costa Rica Regenerativa. We invite you to read, share and comment on them.
IVSTITIA
After a ten-year absence, we attended the re-launching of the IVSTITIA Law Review, now in the digital space of specialized publications of the UCI.
