Bilkent University is the first private, nonprofit university in Turkey was founded on October 20, 1984, by Professor İhsan Doğramacı. Bilkent University has an agreement with IEEE to accelerate open access publishing.

Within the scope of the agreement, corresponding authors of Bilkent University will not pay any Article Processing Charge (APC) for open-access articles to be published in gold open-access and hybrid journals of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Extra charges such as overlength page fees, color page fees, etc., are not included in this agreement.

Eligible Titles: IEEE hybrid and gold journals

• The agreement covers the years 2025 and 2026.
• The corresponding author has to be affiliated with Bilkent University.
• The author should use Bilkent University institutional e-mail address.
• Authors submitting to hybrid journals will not be asked to select OA until after acceptance.
• A funding request is automatically sent to the institution when the author’s uploaded manuscript matches the institution’s profile.
• The open access funding request will be approved by an administrator in the library.
• After the request is approved or denied by the institution, the author will receive an email.

Eligible Articles:

• Regular Paper
• Review Paper
• Brief
• Invited
• Survey

License Options:

• CC-BY: Author retains copyright and the article is published open access.