On September 27, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and the Sumy National Agrarian University held a seminar for Vice Rectors for Research of Ukrainian agriculture universities. The theme of the seminar was "Urgent issues of fundamental and applied science development in agrarian higher educational institutions". The Elsevier coach Maryna Nazarovets' talk "The Scopus facilities for agrarian sciences" should be noted. "Business Perspectives" (Serhii Kozmenko, the author of the JIC Index, and Liudmyla Ostapenko, the CEO) talked about the state and the future outlook of Ukrainian academic journals.