The University Library is staffed by an experienced professional with strong pedagogical expertise, as well as advanced skills in information services and technology, to support both students and faculty in their academic development.
The UNIB Virtual Library provides access to relevant resources for teaching and learning across its programs, utilizing various tools to support the academic curriculum. It offers users access to internet links, documents, books, theses and dissertations, scientific journals, and other open-access and subscription-based materials, depending on their needs.
Library Services Offered:
- Librarian consultation
- Course readings
- Scientific journals
- Library search engines and portals
- Theses and dissertation
- Electronic consultations
- User training
To expand its research and information management offerings, UNIB has subscribed to EBSCO Information Services, providing access to full-text bibliographic databases, electronic books, and a discovery service for efficient academic research.
Description of Available Resources
Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is the most comprehensive and valuable full-text, multidisciplinary database of its kind. It includes more than 9,100 full-text journal titles and approximately 7,900 peer-reviewed publications, as well as indexes and abstracts for over 13,690 periodicals and other sources, including monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. The database provides PDF content dating back to 1887 and covers a wide range of disciplines, including Basic Sciences, Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Education, Social Sciences, and Humanities, among others.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete contains one of the leading collections of full-text and bibliographic records from the most prestigious and widely used academic publications in the fields of Economics and Business Administration.
This database provides full-text access to more than 3,850 journals, of which 2,006 are peer-reviewed. It also includes 917 books, 2,530 market research reports, and 1,446 country economic performance reports, among other valuable business resources.
Education Source
Education Source is an extensive resource for the study of education. This bibliographic and full-text database covers scientific research and information designed to meet the needs of students, professionals, and policymakers in education.
Developed from the merger of EBSCO and H.W. Wilson databases, it includes many unique sources that were previously unavailable. Education Source offers the world’s largest and most comprehensive full-text collection of educational publications, encompassing a wide international range of journals, monographs, yearbooks, and more. It provides bibliographic records for thousands of publications and full-text access to over 1,800 journal titles, more than 550 books and monographs, and hundreds of conference reports.
Fuente Académica Premier
Fuente Académica Premier is a multidisciplinary database that provides information from prestigious academic journals published in Spanish. It is a highly relevant and authoritative collection offering information across all areas of knowledge, including Social Sciences, Humanities, Education, Computer Science, Engineering, Linguistics, Arts and Literature, Medical Sciences, Ethnic Studies, and Law.
The database includes more than 850 full-text journals and 30 full-text books produced by the publishing houses of the most renowned universities and research centers in the Spanish-speaking world. These publications represent some of the most significant research efforts in the region.
Among its notable titles are: Anuario de Derecho Internacional (Universidad de Navarra), Aportes: Revista Mexicana de Estudios Sobre la Cuenca del Pacífico (Universidad de Colima), Boletín del CEMLA (Centro de Estudios Monetarios Latinoamericanos), Ciencia Veterinaria (Universidad de La Pampa), Comunicación y Sociedad (Universidad de Guadalajara), Cuadernos de Literatura (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Colombia), Revista de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Perspectivas en Política, Economía y Gestión (Universidad de Chile), Problemas del Desarrollo: Revista Latinoamericana de Economía (Universidad Autónoma de México), Psykhe (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), Revista de Contabilidade e Finanças (Universidade São Paulo), Revista Internacional de Seguridad Social (Blackwell Publishing), and Revista de la CEPAL (United Nations Publications), among others.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE provides reliable research information on all aspects of human impact on the environment. It features a collection of academic, governmental, and general-interest sources covering topics such as global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, and recycling.
The database offers indexing and abstracts for over 384,000 records, as well as open-access full text for more than 4,700 records, making it an essential resource for environmental studies and sustainability research.
Library Information Science & Technology Abstracts (LISTA)
LISTA indexes over 560 core publications, approximately 50 priority journals, and around 125 selectively chosen publications, in addition to books, research reports, and conference proceedings.
Its coverage includes topics such as library science, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, and information management, among others.
The database’s coverage dates back to the mid-1960s, providing a rich historical and contemporary reference for library and information science professionals.