Anti-plagiarism Policy

The University Journal of the Caribbean declares its commitment for respect and integrity of published works. For this reason, plagiarism is strictly prohibited and the texts that are identified as plagiarism or its content is fraudulent, will be eliminated from the evaluation process. By accepting the terms and conditions expressed, authors must ensure that the articles and materials associated with it are original and do not infringe copyright. The authors must also justify that, in the case of a shared authorship, there was a full consensus of all the authors affected and that the proposed work has not been presented or previously published in another means of dissemination.

The articles sent to The University Journal of the Caribbean will be reviewed using the Safe Assign and Spider Copy anti-plagiarism detection tool. All those articles in which plagiarism or self-plagiarism is detected will be immediately rejected.