RSC welcomes Couperin agreement expanding support for French chemistry community
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About Couperin
乐天堂app下载 Couperin Consortium is an association of French higher education and research institutions that aims to develop access to scientific and technical information for 乐天堂app下载 scientific community, by facilitating national negotiations on digital resources and supporting open science.