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Overleaf Professional

Overleaf Professional

La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) makes available to teaching and research staff and doctoral students access to the Overleaf Professional version, the online collaborative LaTeX editor, to facilitate the creation and management of your projects

Transformative agreements 2026

Transformative agreements 2026

What are transformative agreements and how to make use of APCs?

These are journal subscription agreements between publishers and universities or consortia that include a certain number of Article Processing Charges (APC) for publishing articles in immediate open access.

Get the most out of DiscoveryUPC

Get the most out of DiscoveryUPC

We have published video tutorials to make it easier to use DiscoveryUPC, the search engine that allows you to search, from a single search box, for documents in the Libraries UPC, of the Digital Library and the institutional repository UPCommons.

Protect your teaching materials and exams

Protect your teaching materials and exams

The Library Service has launched a series of actions to protect the copyright of teaching materials of the faculty of the UPC:

Electronic books on scientific work methodology

Electronic books on scientific work methodology

We offer you 5 e-books from the publisher Synthesis on methodologies of scientific work, available through eBIB:

How to publish an article at no cost to the UPC

How to publish an article at no cost to the UPC

Discover how to publish a scientific article without having to bear the cost of APCs (Article Processing Charges), the fees that publishers charge authors for offering open access.

Bibliography on generative AI

Bibliography on generative AI

In this guide you will find information and resources about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its applications in research, academic publication, teaching or learning at the university level as well as on other related aspects.

It will be useful for:

The management of the DOI in the UPC

The management of the DOI in the UPC

The Libraries, Publications and Archives Service has a DOI prefix.

What are diamond magazines and where to find them

What are diamond magazines and where to find them

The diamond magazines they are open access journals that do not charge either the authors or the readers but are subsidized by scientific societies, universities, etc. Therefore, they have no financial barriers either to access or to publish.