• These are contracts that transform traditional journal subscription agreements between publishers and universities or consortia. These agreements allow articles published by the authors to be published in immediate open access when they are members of the institution that signs the agreement without paying an APC (Article Processing Charges).

• Thus, budgets previously earmarked for "pay to access" allow you to gradually move to "pay to publish in open access." Therefore, the transformative agreements allow to publish in open access a part of what the research staff of the institution publishes in the journals of a publishing house and in the long run, in its entirety. 

• In case of publishing articles in co-authorship with members of other institutions and/or countries, it is recommended to consult the ESAC (Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges), global register of transformative agreements to find out which authors can benefit from transformative agreements and decide the corresponding author. 

• In 2019, the CRUE undertook to promote the Open Science. Subsequently, a committee of the CRUE, the CSIC and the university libraries have negotiated transformative agreements with the Elsevier publishing houses, Springer Nature and Wiley, the American Chemical Society (ACS), the American Institute of Physics (AIP), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC).
• The agreements are valid from 2021 and until 2024. In the case of the American Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry, until 2025.

• Each publisher provides a certain number of APCs in the form of vouchers or a certain amount to publish in immediate open access. It also determines in which journals APCs can be used by indicating specific journal titles. 

• From the platform of each publisher and during the process of publishing an article, the publisher offers the author of correspondence the possibility of publishing the article in immediate open access within the conditions of the agreement between the publishing house and its institution.

• 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.

• For articles published in 2023, the allocation criteria are as follows, inclusively:

1. The corresponding author is linked to UPC at the time of submitting the article to the publisher for acceptance and publication. The link to the UPC can be as a PDI, PAS, research fellow or doctoral student and is verified from the corporate information system Identitat Digital UPC.
2. In the article, the affiliation of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya has been incorporated into the signature of the UPC authors according to the established guidelines.
3. The corresponding author has the ORCIDcode, this is reported in DRAC and is shown in FUTUR.
4. The corresponding author is linked to a UPC research group. This criterion does not apply to doctoral students without a contractual relationship with the UPC when they are corresponding authors of the articles. 

• The APC assignment for UPC research groups  and publisher is made in accordance with the following criteria based on the report: Indicators of research activities (PAR 2021) and transfer of research results (PATT 2021): 

• Groups that have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teachers and full-time doctoral research staff): 2 APC for GR and for the publishers Elsevier, Wiley i American Chemical Society.
• Groups that have equal or more than 3 EDP and equal or more than 80 PAR type 1 points per EDP (both conditions): 4 APC per GR for publishers Elsevier i Wiley and 2 APC for GR for American Chemical Society.
• Allocation of APC fromAmerican Institute of Physics: APCs are handled on a first-come, first-served basis across all research groups UPC who have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teaching staff and full-time doctoral research staff). 
• Allocation of APC fromInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: APCs are allocated in order of arrival to research groups that have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points per EDP (1 APC per group) and equal to or more than 3 EDP and equal to or more than 80 PAR type points 1 per EDP, both conditions (2 APC per group).
• Allocation of APC from Royal Society of Chemistry: 1 APC to all research groups UPC who have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teaching staff and full-time doctoral research staff). 
• All research groups can use Springer APC without limitation. APCs are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis until available APCs are exhausted.         
• The SBPA requests a copy of the article from the corresponding author in case it cannot be accessed from the publication platform.

• If the article is published as part of a project, please note that funding institutions require a license. Creative Commons CC BY. Publishers already assign the CC by or let the author choose one.

• The APCs are assigned in order of request on the platform of each publisher, until the available bonds included in the transformative agreement with each publisher are exhausted.  

• When a publisher does not have more APCs, it is reported in the section of specific conditions of the publisher.

• List of articles published by research staff UPC in 2021 with assigned APCs.

• En hybrid journals (these are traditional journals that offer authors the ability to make their individual articles open to everyone in exchange for paying an APC. Other articles in the same journal are accessible only by subscription (Source: MIT)).
• The transformative agreement with Elsevier also includes a 10% discount on the price to be paid for open publishing in all gold magazines of this publisher, after verifying that the corresponding author is a research staff UPC. In gold magazines all articles are open access. 
• Relation of magazine titles of Elsevier where to publish in open access. 
• Summary sheet of the'transformative agreement with this publisher. 
• More information
• Publisher contact address for authors: support@elsevier.com

• In the transformative agreement with Elsevier, the UPC initially has 172 APCs for 2023.
• Elsevier APC allocation by UPC Research Groups:
  • Groups that have equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teachers and full-time doctoral research staff): 2 APC.
  • Groups that have equal or more than 3 EDP and equal or more than 80 PAR type 1 points per EDP (both conditions): 4 APC.
• Currently, APCs are still available. In the event that they run out before the end of the year, this section will be reported.

• The agreement is to publish in hybrid journals (these are traditional journals that offer authors the ability to make their individual articles freely accessible to everyone in exchange for paying an APC. Other articles in the same journal are subscription-only (Source: MIT)) and in Gold magazines, except the ACS Omega journal.
• List of journal titles of American Chemical Society where to publish in open access.
• Summary sheet of the'transformative agreement with this publisher.
• More information.

• In the transformative agreement with the American Chemical Society, the UPC initially has 10 APCs for 2023.
• Allocation of 2 American Chemical Society APCs by UPC research groups that have:
  • Equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teachers and full-time doctoral research staff).  
  • Equal or more than 3 EDP and equal or more than 80 PAR type 1 points per EDP (both conditions).
• Currently, there are still APCs available. If they are sold out before the end of the year, it will be reported in this section.

Consult the presentation of the webinar organized by the publisher that took place last October 13

• ACS Read + Publish 101: for authors

• In all the hybrid journals from IEEE Electronic Library (IEL) and IEEE All-Society Periodicals Package (ASPP). Hybrid journals are traditional journals that offer authors the possibility to make their individual articles freely accessible to everyone in exchange for payment of an APC. Other articles in the same journal can only be accessed by subscription (Source: MIT)
• They include meurnals, transactions and magazines. List of hybrid included in the agreement. 
• APC's do not include excess pages or color.
• The agreement with IEEE also includes a 20% discount on the price to be paid for open publishing in all its gold magazines (all articles in open access) after verifying that the corresponding author is a research staff UPC. 
• To benefit from an APC from this publisher, the corresponding author must contact the using journal always email @upc.edu.
• For gold journals, the corresponding author must accept the open publishing agreement or OA agreement at the time of submitting the article to the journal for review/acceptance. In the case of hybrid journals, this process takes place when the article has been accepted. 
• Publisher contact address: onlinesupport@ieee.org
• Text deeeee about the agreement
• Month informació

• The agreement with the IEEE starting on July 5, 2023 includes 27 APCs for the current year. 
• APCs are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to groups that have:     
  • equal to or more than 10 PAR type 1 points for EDP (Teachers and full-time doctoral research staff): 1 APC for GR
  • equal or more than 3 EDP and equal or more than 80 PAR type 1 points for EDP (both conditions): 2 APC for GR
• Currently, APCs are still available. In the event that they run out before the end of the year, this section will be reported.
   

The members of the UPC they have a 10% discount for publishing open access articles in Frontiers publishing magazines when they are authors of correspondence. 

• The discount is requested when sending the article to the publisher, before starting the peer-review.
• Proof of affiliation UPC. Can be done using email @upc.edu.
• When the article has been accepted for publication, the publisher issues the invoice with the discount applied, an invoice that is paid with a budget (project, unit or group) managed by the UPC.
• list of titles of magazines from the publisher during 2023.

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.

The magazines included are:

• Acta Physica Polonica B (Jagiellonian University) 
• Advances in High Energy Physics (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) 
• Chinese physics C (Institute of Physics Publishing / Chinese Academy of Sciences) 
• The European Physical Journal C (Springer / Società Italiana di Fisica)   
• Journal of high energy physics (Springer / SISSA) 
• Nuclear physics B (Elsevier) 
• Physics letters B (Elsevier) 
• Physical Review Letters (American Physical Society) 
• Physical Review D (American Physical Society) 
• Physical Review C (American Physical Society) 
• Progress of theoretical and experimental physics (Oxford University Press / Phyiscal Society of Japan) 

At the end of 2020 the European Commission (EC) launched the Open Research Europe publishing platform, after signing an agreement with F1000 Research. 

The European Commission (EC) offers this platform to researchers in the H2020 and Horizon Europe projects to publish open access articles without paying for Article Processing Charges. Publication costs, valued at € 780 per article, are borne by the EC.  

Keep in mind: 

• the use of the platform is not mandatory
• the article review model is "open peer-review" 
• the platform does not include qualitative indicators
• articles must present results of EC-funded research projects
• at least one of the co-authors must be linked to an H2020 project, in progress or completed
• the dataset(s) that support the results presented in the article must be published openly

Indexing in Scopus

• As of July 2022, Scopus indexes Open Research Europe.

More information: 

• FAQs about the Open Research Platform
• Post an article on the Open Research Platform
• How to publish datasets in open access

For any questions, contact info.bibliotequesupc.edu

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.

• The discount is applicable to all subscription journals, open access journals and books published with the publisher.
• See the list of magazines here.
• Guide by the authors
• More information about the aid 

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:

• ACE: architecture, city and environment 
• DC Papers