Created in 1934, USP is a public university, maintained by the State of São Paulo and linked to the Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation.Its graduation is made up of 183 courses, dedicated to all areas of knowledge, distributed in 42 teaching and research units, with more than 58 thousand students. The post-graduation is made up of 239 programs, with nearly 30 thousand enrolled. Currently, USP is responsible for more than 20% of Brazilian scientific production.

The Universidade de São Paulo (USP), through the national contract between CAPES and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 5 November 2024 – 30 October 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submi​​ssion. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an OA administrator at CAPES. Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.