Gestión de información e implementación del centro de recursos para el aprendizaje y la investigación (CRAI) en la universidad técnica de Manabí.

Abstract

The purpose of this project is the implementation of the Resource Center for Learning and Research (CRAI), which will be placed in place of the current website of the Dr. Alejandro Muñoz Dávila Library of the Technical University of Manabi. The objective of the investigation carried out was to determine the information resources that would be located in the CRAI, for its subsequent commissioning through a progressive web application. In this regard, a quantitative and qualitative documentary methodological design was assumed; where the unit of analysis are the open access websites that are managed through the internet with better representation of the areas of knowledge, which constitute undergraduate and postgraduate offers in the university. As methods the documentary analysis of content was used in the theoretical foundation, as well as in the valuation of the websites of university libraries at national and Latin American level, which allowed to identify the best databases and open access resources that provide information on knowledge areas of interest to the university. The results include 201 sites that group together: databases, anti-plagiarism software, bibliographic reference managers and links of interest. The conclusions point to the usefulness of the CRAI by providing relevant, updated and relevant information for the academic and research field and supplying the lack of budgeted databases that the university does not have, which will have an impact on the benefit of all citizens.