IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for humanity, announced today that it has reached an unlimited read and publish open access agreement with the Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior (CAPES), a federal agency within the Brazilian Ministry of Education, to support researchers who choose to publish via open access.
Under this new three-year agreement, all researchers from the participating 163 Brazilian institutions are now able to publish open access articles in over 200 leading peer-reviewed journals and magazines published by IEEE, making articles that are accepted for publication instantly available and free to read. This program supports CAPES’ mission to make their authors’ publications open to the world. Under the terms of the agreement, the costs of both access to subscription content and the article processing charges (APCs) required to publish open access are included in the license fees paid by consortium members, making the open access publishing easier and more convenient for authors.
Participating members of CAPES will have:
● Open access publishing rights in all of IEEE’s hybrid journals and fully open access journals, making articles accepted for publication instantly available and free to read by the general public.
● Read access rights to peer-reviewed journals, papers from approximately 2,000 annual technology-focused conferences, and IEEE standards available in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. IEEE Xplore includes more than six million documents and adds over 250,000 new documents each year.
“CAPES and the Portal de Periódicos (Journals Portal) are working hard to offer Brazilian researchers the opportunity to publish in renowned journals at no cost,” stated Andréa Vieira, General Coordinator of the Periodical Portal, CAPES. “In this sense, the agreement between CAPES and IEEE will favor the advancement of open access and the expansion of scientific production in Brazil at no cost to researchers at eligible Brazilian institutions. We believe in this successful partnership!”
“IEEE is enthusiastic about this agreement with the CAPES’ research community, which will provide Brazilian scholars with a wide array of open access publishing options across our highly cited portfolio of journals,” said Karen Hawkins, Chief Marketing Officer, IEEE. “The aim of this transformative agreement is to streamline open access publication for Brazilian authors, thereby reinforcing IEEE’s commitment to share the work of leading researchers with the global research community to further scientific and engineering progress. The agreement enhances our existing collaborations and will ensure that researchers and students maintain access to subscription content, while offering funding support for open access publishing across our extensive and impactful journal collection.
IEEE has expanded its open access program and launched many new fully open access titles in fields such as privacy, telecommunications, biomedical engineering, machine learning, nanotechnology, and more. To learn more about the IEEE open access options for authors and institutions or to view a list of over 500 institutions which have open access agreements with IEEE, please visit open.ieee.org.
