For groups that have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teachers and full-time doctoral research staff):
- American Chemical Society, Cambridge University Press i Public Library of Science: Unlimited APCs
- Springer i Wiley: 2 APCs per group
- IEEE i CSR: 1 APC per group
- AIP: they are assigned in order of arrival until the 48 APCs available for articles published by the Catalan universities participating in this agreement are exhausted: UB, UAB, UPC, UdG, URV, BC and UIB.
For groups that have equal or more than 3 EDP and equal or more than 80 PAR type 1 points for EDP or more (both conditions):
- American Chemical Society, Cambridge University Press i Public Library of Science: Unlimited APCs
- Springer i Wiley: 3 APC per group and editorial
- IEEE: 2 APC per group and publisher
- CSR: 1 APC per group
- AIP: they are assigned in order of arrival until the 48 APCs available for articles published by the Catalan universities participating in this agreement are exhausted: UB, UAB, UPC, UdG, URV, BC and UIB.
In case of publishing the article as part of a project, remember that many funding bodies require a license Creative Commons CC BY. Publishers already assign the CC by or let the author choose one.
APCs are assigned in order of request on each publisher's platform, until the available bonuses included in the transformative agreement with each publisher are exhausted.
When no more APCs are available from a publisher, this is reported in the publisher's specific conditions section.
By mid-2025 A review of the APCs still available will be carried out to assess whether the allocation can be increased. initial.
List of articles published by research staff UPC: 2021, 2022, 2023 i 2024 with assigned APCs.
APCs assigned in 2025 by research groups from Wiley publishers, Springer, IEEE and RSC. Information from unlimited APCs (ACS, CUP, Elsevier and PLoS) is not included. It is marked in red when the research group has exhausted the available APCs. Latest update: 2025-05-13.
Allocation of Wiley APCs by Research Groups UPC:
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Agreement in force until 2028 inclusive, renewable for 2 more years.
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More information (section Links of interest)
Style manual for publication in AIP
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Unlimited number of APCs
It is necessary that the author be the corresponding author and sign with affiliation UPC
Sessions of academics i publication portal by authors
More information about the agreement
In the transformative agreement with Cambridge University Press, the UPC has an unlimited number of APCs.
In the transformative agreement with SPIE, the UPC has an unlimited number of APCs.
In the transformative agreement with PLOS, the UPC has an unlimited number of APCs.
From April 2024, all researchers involved in projects or grants funded by the European Commission can publish their research results in ORE.
Articles are accepted from the following subject areas: natural sciences, engineering and technology, medical sciences, agricultural and veterinary sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts.
At the end of 2020 the European Commission (EC) launched the Open Research Europe publication platform, after signing an agreement with F1000 Research.
Articles can be published in immediate open access without paying Article Processing Charges. The publication costs, valued at €780 per article, are assumed by the EC.
Keep in mind:
More information:
For any questions, contact info.bibliotequesupc.edu
The research staff of the UPC has a 10% discount for publishing articles in open access in journals of the publishing house Frontiers when they are corresponding authors.
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics) is an international project led by CERN whose objective is to open prestigious journals of high-energy physics open access at no cost to the authors.
The cost of publishing is assumed by each participating country in proportion to its scientific output. The articles are published in SCOAP3 and in the publishers' websites.
More info on what to do to publish in SCOAP journals.
The magazines included are:
From June 1, 2024, the research staff of the UPC has a 25% discount for publishing open access articles in the publisher's journals The Royal Society.
The members of the UPC they have a 30% discount for publishing articles in open access in Bentham Science publishing journals when they are corresponding authors and at the time of acceptance of the publication.
At UPCommons you can check all the articles in the open access journals published by different units of the UPC. For the editing and publication process some of them use the journal service of the UPC and the Open Journal System (OJS) software.
All of them are polytechnical and some are indexed in the most prestigious international indexes, such as: