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New transformative agreements 2025

New transformative agreements 2025

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.

Workshops ICE face-to-face teaching support for teaching staff

Workshops ICE face-to-face teaching support for teaching staff

 

During the months of June and July, the Library Service, with the collaboration of theICE, offers several workshops aimed at the teaching and research staff of the UPC with the aim of:

Temporary closure for renovations of the Library of Vilanova

Temporary closure for renovations of the Library of Vilanova

From May 5th (and until further notice) the Campus Library Vilanova will remain closed in order to carry out comprehensive renovation work on the spaces.

Emotional well-being and mental health: new Biblioguide

Emotional well-being and mental health: new Biblioguide

Coinciding with Healthy Week 2025, we present the new Biblioguide on emotional well-being and mental health!

You will find resources for:

  • manage stress and anxiety
  • promote personal growth
  • acquire healthy habits
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:

Biblioguide Disinformation and Fake news

Biblioguide Disinformation and Fake news

We have published a new Biblioguide dedicated to disinformation, an essential resource for those who wish to understand and combat this phenomenon in the digital age.

New videos to get the most out of the Discovery search engineUPC

New videos to get the most out of the Discovery search engineUPC

We've released new 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.

Take care of your Google Scholar profile

Take care of your Google Scholar profile

Keeping your Google Scholar profile up to date is a good practice that:

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.