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The status of any university in the world is determined by several indicators, among which the most important are the ones related to the number and forcefulness of the scientific publications of its employees, presence of rated scientific publications. In Ukraine, it is obligatorily taken into account when the university gives or confirms its status as national, when defining the amount of state financing, when giving the grants, etc. That’s why recently the leading university of the country – Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv – performs the complex of measures concerning the expansion of the work in the mentioned direction. To this end, a year ago there began the cooperation with the company that for a long time deals professionally with scientific journals publishing – with LLC CPC “Business Perspectives”.

Archiving articles is a prerequisite for the modern publisher's work. For several years, "Business Perspectives" has been using Portico and has never regretted it. Here's how they write about themselves: "This spirit of global collaboration, transparency, and commitment has made us one of the leading digital preservation services in the world. A growing number of libraries participate in Portico as part of their digital preservation strategy, and we enjoy widespread support among the scholarly publishing community". And this is true.

A regular meeting of the company founders with Jozef Haber was held. It took place in an informal setting. Jozef Antoni Haber is an expert on Global Economics, an Honorary Professor of the Jean Monnet Project (the EU), an Honorary Professor of the Ukrainian Academy of Banking and an Honorary Professor and Doctor of Science Honoris Causa of the University of Banking; Poznań School of Banking – Faculty in Chorzów, Poland. We discussed further directions for the development of journals with which our colleague works as a member of editorial boards and a reviewer. Particular attention was devoted to changes in the legislation of Poland dealing with publishing activity of lecturers and scientists.

Liudmyla Ostapenko, Ph.D., the "Business Perspectives" company CEO, and Serhiy Kozmenko, Professor, the co-founder of "Business Perspectives" took part in the conference. Serhiy Kozmenko contributed to the conference with a lecture on "The phenomenon and methodology of the monopolists of scientometrics (evidence from Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection)". He said that for Ukrainian scientists, the presence of their articles in journals indexed in leading citation systems is a prerequisite for career development. It is necessary for obtaining a scientific degree, academic rank, registration of a contract, etc. The presence of a large number of such articles and journals provides the necessary positions of the university (scientific institution) in various ratings. All this is enshrined in normative documents and legislative acts. But why did it happen that two bases with their products (Scopus and Web of Science Core Collection) actually conquered the whole scientific world? Are these bases methodologically impeccable, the procedures are transparent, and their content is qualitative?

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv publishes 100 academic journals (it is the largest founder and publisher in Ukraine). The cooperation between the University and the "Business Perspectives" company has been going on for a year already. It concerns primarily the exchange of experience in the creation and development of journals. "Business Perspectives" offers its own system to the University for evaluating journals for their compliance degree with the world publishing standards and publication ethics principles. On March 28, 2019, the regular working meeting was held.

Reputation is the most important thing in the academic environment (including the field of publishing activity). It is based on ethical principles compliance by journals and authors. Nowadays, COPE is undoubtedly the most authoritative organization in this matter. Here is what they themselves write about it: "COPE is committed to educate and support editors, publishers and those involved in publication ethics with the aim of moving the culture of publishing towards one where ethical practices becomes the norm, part of the publishing culture. Our approach is firmly in the direction of influencing through education, resources and support of our members alongside the fostering of professional debate in the wider community."