Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)

Florianópólis, Brazil

Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)

Created in 1965, at the University of the State of Santa Catarina (Udesc), which has excellence in higher education in the areas of education, research and extension and is among the best universities in Brazil and the world. Currently, there are only about 14 thousand students distributed in more than 60 undergraduate courses and in more than 50 masters and doctorates, in addition to lato sensu courses and residencies, which are only offered free of charge, and about 90% have two effective professors.

The Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), 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 do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC). 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.

Learn more about open access at Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC)