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.
During the process of accepting an article, when the corresponding author indicates that he/she wants to publish in open access, the publisher contacts the Library, Publications and Archives Service, which checks that all the requirements are met.
Allocation criteria include aspects such as:
- Binding UPC
- Affiliation UPC
- ORCID code
- Link to research group UPC
With which publishers the UPC have you signed transformative agreements?
- Elsevier
- Wiley
- Springer
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Royal Society of Chemistry (CSR)
- SPIE
Other aids
- Frontiers
- SCOAP3
- Open Research Europe
- Bentham Science
- Magazines edited by the UPC