Library

• digital resources

The university is also working to ensure access to international electronic databases for academic, invited and administrative personnel and students.

- JSTOR- https://www.jstor.org/  provides access to more than 12 million journal articles, books, images, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. It helps you explore a wide range of scholarly content through a powerful research and teaching platform. We collaborate with the academic community to help libraries connect students and faculty to vital content while lowering costs and increasing shelf space, provide independent researchers with free and low-cost access to scholarship, and help publishers reach new audiences and preserve their content for future generations.

Elsevier is the world’s leading scientific publisher and data analytics company, witha legacythatextends backmorethan140 years.Wehelp researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomesfor the benefit ofsociety. Our 9,500 employees serve academicand governmentinstitutions, top research and developmentintensive corporations, healthcare institutions, and medical and nursing students in over170 countries and regions.

With the support of LEPL  Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia, GIPA also enjoys access to the following e-databases:

• ScienceDirect – (https://www.sciencedirect.com/)
• Scopus –  (https://www.scopus.com/standard/marketing.uri)

https://www.ebsco.com/products/research-databases  - Academic Search Premier is the third largest database in the Academic Search family. It offers access to 2,966 active full-text journals with a journal retail value of $2,584,080.65. It is a popular resource found in many scholarly settings worldwide.

Strengthen Exposure to Open Access Journals. Academic Search Premier includes rigorous curation and indexing of open access (OA) journals, which has resulted in a growing collection of 6,773 active global OA journals. Once validated and certified for inclusion, these OA journals are treated with high-quality subject indexing and sophisticated, precise/accurate full-text linking.

NOTE: EBSCOhost databases and EBSCO Discovery Service generate a lot more referrals for DOAJ than any other online platform. Academic Search Premier includes Ahead of Print content for relevant titles from key publishers.  Academic Search Premier includes 1,043 journals with searchable cited references. Academic Search Premier includes more than 75,000 videos from the Associated Press. Updated monthly, this collection of videos from the world’s leading news agency includes footage from 1930 to the present and helps round out student research. EBSCO has the premier and most highly regarded scholarly vocabularies curated by subject matter experts, covering all disciplines and major publishers. EBSCO believes in breaking down barriers to information through Enhanced Subject Precision (ESP) mapping, bridging the gap between content and end users through inclusion of natural languages.   EBSCO databases support all learning types through textual and visual subject browse and information literacy training through subject access points in more than 30 languages.

Cambridge Journals Online - https://www.cambridge.org/core collection is available on Cambridge Core platform. Cambridge Journals Online is the Cambridge University Press (CUP) multidisciplinary full-text database of the e-journals providing the opportunity to search information in more than 300 scientific journals. The articles are available in mathematics, computer science, economy, finance, politics, law, philosophy, psychology, history, culture, arts, philology, physics, chemistry, biology, ecology, geology, medicine and others.

e-Duke Journals - https://read.dukeupress.edu/ provides online access to journals in the humanities and social sciences. The collection includes flagship publications, such as Hispanic American Historical Review and GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. It also includes important new scholarship in cutting-edge fields, such as TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Public Culture, and the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies.

Edward Elgar Publishing - https://www.elgaronline.com/ is a leading independent academic and professional publisher with a strong focus on the social sciences and legal fields. We publish 600 book and journal titles annually and have successfully created a prestigious list of over 10,000 titles.

European Respiratory Journal  https://erj.ersjournals.com/- The European Respiratory Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering respirology. It was established in 1988 and is published by the European Respiratory Society, of which it is the official journal. The editor-in-chief is James D. Chalmers (University of Dundee). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal had a 2021 impact factor of 33.795.

IMechE Journals https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/IMEchE - The IMechE Journals collection, published by SAGE, offers 18 titles from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. These include the 16-part Proceedings of the IMechE, as well as The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design and the International Journal of Engine Research. The IMechE journals cover all aspects of mechanical engineering from 1847 to the present day. Each journal is focused on particular area of engineering to offer a greater depth of coverage in mechanical engineering, and has its own international Editorial Board, all of whom are leading engineers. Spanning topics from power and energy to sports engineering and technology, these journals are an essential part of any engineering collection.

 Mathematical Sciences Publishers Journals https://msp.org/  - Mathematical Sciences Publishers (MSP) is a nonprofit based in Berkeley, California. 

MSP publishes scientific and research literature covering mathematics and other selected fields, publishing more than 17,000 pages each year. MSP publishes 17 journals, a book series of open-access conference proceedings, and Celebratio Mathematica, a celebration of mathematical lives and works. In addition, MSP offers publishing services: superior journal, proceedings and website production and hosting services, as well as the software service, EditFlow, for managing the editorial workflows of research journals.

Openedition Journals https://www.openedition.org/- OpenEdition Freemium for Journals is a bundle of 184 journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, published by university presses and small academic publishers. The journals are available in HTML, PDF and ePUB and allow for perpetual access (archival rights). In 2017, the journal Sociologie du Travail, previously in Science Direct (Elsevier), was included in the collection. Other prestigious titles are Cybergeo, one of first geographical journals on the web (1996), Vertigo, a multidisciplinary journal on environmental sciences (from Canada), and Nuevo Mundo Mundos Nuevos, about America Latina in four languages (French, Spanish, English, Portuguese). About 80% of the publications are in French, and half of the journals publish regularly in more than one language. Other main languages are English, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The freemium journal bundle is updated each year on 1 January. New titles for 2023 are: Alter, European Journal of Disability Research (Sociology, Psychology, Educational sciences, Disability), IdeAs (Social sciences, Society, America, Interdisciplinary), Images du travail, travail des images (Art, History, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Law, Multidisciplinary, Sociology of work, Social anthropology, Labour history, Visual studies), La revue de la BNU (Humanities, Information Science & Library Science, Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary, History and sociology of the book, Representation, Heritage) and Revue internationale des études du développement (Sociology of work, Demography, Social anthropology, Migration, immigration, minorities, Geography: society and territory, Economic development, Political sociology).

Royal Society Journals Collection https://royalsociety.org/journals/ - The Royal Society is the world's oldest scientific academy in continuous existence, which has been at the forefront of enquiry and discovery since its foundation in 1660. The Royal Society Journals Collection comprises eight high-impact hybrid journals in the physical and biological sciences. Subscribers also benefit from access to the Royal Society's Digital Archive which goes back to 1665. In addition, the Royal Society publishes two fully Open Access journals Open Biology and Royal Society Open Science.

 SAGE Premier https://journals.sagepub.com - was designed with and for librarians to provide great savings off list prices for individual journals. Sage Premier is the largest journals package offered by Sage. It includes international, peer-reviewed journals, including high-impact research titles published on behalf of 350 scholarly and professional societies. View the title list for the 2024 Sage premier package. Electronic access to more than 950 peer-reviewed journals (over 1 million articles), Content ownership of the subscribed content published by Sage during the term of the agreement, Complimentary access back to 1999, where available, is included while a current subscription is maintained and Quality new content added to the package annually. 

The Company of Biologists' Journals  https://www.biologists.com/ - EIFL has negotiated free access to three hybrid journals published by The Company of Biologists: Development, Journal of Cell Science, and Journal of Experimental Biology. Jubject area covers: Developmental biology, Cell biology and Zoology. 

ACM Digital Library - https://dl.acm.org/

The ACM Digital Library (DL) is the world’s most comprehensive database of full-text articles and bibliographic literature covering computing and information technology. This renowned repository includes the complete collection of ACM publications plus an extended bibliographic database of core works in computing from scholarly publishers. The DL’s integrated features, functionality, and content constitute a critical resource for computing professionals. The DL is designed to facilitate information dissemination and sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration for computing professionals, practitioners, researchers, and educators.  It offers a window on the digital world, with access to ideas and innovations -- great and small -- that continue to foster and form the information age. Making critical content discoverable and accessible has been the primary goal of the ACM Digital Library since its inception. Expanding the scope of the ACM DL beyond ACM's conference proceedings, journals, magazines and newsletters to include fully integrated bibliographic data of all computing literature has proven to be an extremely important part of that primary goal. The ACM DL aims to be a destination where presentation and collaboration allow for relationships to form, extending the boundaries of the past and envisioning the future.

https://www.oaresciences.org/en/index.html - Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 2,990 peer reviewed titles (as of 4/2009) owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines. Please read About OARE for more in-depth information on the project.

• PORTAL.GIPA.GE

PORTAL.GIPA.GE - in order to increase the effectiveness of the administrative and the educational processes, the university has created and implements an electronic management database (portal) fully tailored to its needs which has significantly improved the services directed at meeting the needs of both students and academic, invited and administrative staff. The portal includes mechanisms for a more effective management of the educational process as well as the automatic generation of references, the creation of an online spreadsheet, the ability for students to create and send electronic applications vis-à-vis financial issues alongside other possibilities and access to the electronic library.

Configuring the library proxy for external access to GIPA’s digital library resources is available at PORTAL.GIPA.GE, which allows you to use university digital resources outside the university space.

• Plagiarism prevention and Research Integrity standards 

GIPA – Georgian Institute of Public Affairs is committed to fostering a culture of academic integrity,

promoting standards of respect for intellectual property and the work of others among those individuals

who are engaged in teaching and research process. The university has established comprehensive

procedures and mechanisms for addressing the cases of plagiarism which are delineated in the institutional

regulations managing the educational process. These regulatory provisions apply to all members of the

academic personnel, including students, invited staff, visiting faculty and other individuals involved in the

educational process. For students, the penalties are twofold. Firstly, if plagiarism is detected during

intermediate or final assessments, the student receives an unsatisfactory grade in the subject. Secondly,

should plagiarism be identified at the preliminary review/or defense stage of a Master's thesis or Doctoral

dissertation, the student is awarded an unsatisfactory grade.

The regulatory mechanisms for responding to plagiarism include provisions for graduates as well. In cases where academic misconduct, specifically plagiarism, is discovered in a graduate's qualification paper after graduating the university, the institution reserves the right to revoke the degree that was awarded. 

The university's regulatory framework encompasses mechanisms for addressing plagiarism committed by academic/invited personnel. Upon detection of academic integrity violations, the case is referred to a disciplinary commission for review. This commission, after considering the severity of the breach, submits a recommendation to the Rector regarding appropriate disciplinary measures for the offender. GIPA's approach to academic integrity is not solely punitive but also preventative with a strong emphasis on awareness-raising initiatives. The university actively participates in European Union-supported projects aimed at fostering academic integrity, including: Responsible Conduct of Research – Research Integrity and Ethics in Georgian Universities (ETHICS) and Academic Integrity for Quality Learning and Teaching in Georgian Higher Educational Institutions (INTEGRITY). An essential instrument for fostering and continuously enhancing a culture of academic integrity is the university's comprehensive guide on plagiarism prevention for students. This guide is founded upon the institution's consolidated principles of

academic integrity which serve as a fundamental resource for students and other stakeholders within the academic community. Additionally, academic and invited personnel are required to clarify the standards of academic and scientific integrity to students at the commencement of each educational program. This includes explaining the procedures and consequences for violations. Additionally, each course syllabus

contains an informative note on plagiarism which explicitly outlines the potential sanctions that may be imposed on students if plagiarism is detected. 

To prevent and manage breaches of academic and research integrity, the university has utilized the electronic plagiarism detection software Turnitin since 2017. This tool is integral to both the teaching and research processes at the institution. To facilitate the effective utilization of this software, the university has developed comprehensive guidance document/instructions for students and academic personnel. Furthermore, the university organizes periodic training sessions with a focus on the standards of academic/research integrity and the principles of scientific ethics for academic and invited personnel.

GIPA - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs - Rules of Governing the Educational Process / - Chapter VII. Procedures and Mechanisms for Plagiarism Prevention and Response in Case of Detection; 

GIPA - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs - Code of Ethics and Conduct/ - Chapter V - Research Ethics and Academic Integrity;

GIPA - Georgian Institute of Public Affairs - Student Guide to Preventing Plagiarism;

The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, 2023