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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.

Workshops ICE for teaching staff and doctoral students

Workshops ICE for teaching staff and doctoral students

 

Free workshops for PDI and PhD students organized by the libraries and the Institute of Education Sciences of the UPC. The workshops follow an itinerary made up of 8 different courses:

Awards UPC of Science Fiction Miquel Barceló. Call 2026 open

Awards UPC of Science Fiction Miquel Barceló. Call 2026 open

"Science fiction unifies the concepts of science, technology and literature"

Who can participate?
Unpublished narratives that can be classified within the science fiction genre.

Web of Science Webinars

Web of Science Webinars

FECYT together with Clarivate have programmed 3 webinars on the Web of Science database from January 20 to 22:

AQU Catalunya: research merit assessment (call 2026)

AQU Catalunya: research merit assessment (call 2026)

L'Agency for the Quality of the University System of Catalonia has already published the procedure, deadlines and criteria for submitting applications for the 2026 call merit evaluation

New database: Overton

New database: Overton

Overton is the world's largest database of public policy documents and grey literature, with more than 23 million texts from 193 countries.

Personal signature, institutional affiliation and ORCID

Personal signature, institutional affiliation and ORCID

Whenever you sign a journal article or any other publication or academic work:

Update your ORCID

Update your ORCID

hold an updated ORCID profile is a requirement in many research calls, such as the PID 2025 and the six-year plans.

SILICE

SILICE

The official launch of has been announced. SILICE, the first Spanish scientific literature search engine based only on open sources, free and with more than 18 million (2 million Spanish) publications.