For over 40 years, the Maranhão State University (Uema) has been the university for all the people of Maranhão. It is a free educational institution with a multi-campus structure that spans much of the state of Maranhão. Uema was created in 1981 from the Federation of Higher Education Schools of Maranhão (FESM), which grouped together four separate higher education schools: the School of Administration, the School of Engineering, the School of Agronomy and the Faculty of Caxias. In 1975, FESM incorporated the School of Veterinary Medicine of São Luis and in 1979, the Faculty of Education of Imperatriz. FESM was transformed into the State University of Maranhão by Law No. 4,400 of December 30, 1981, and its operation was authorized by Federal Decree No. 94,143 of March 25, 1987, as a special regime autarchy, a legal entity under public law, in the multi-campus modality. Since then, UEMA has advanced in its expansion into the interior of the state through teaching, research and extension to be present throughout the state. Over the years, it has democratized access to knowledge for millions of people from Maranhão.

The Universidade Estadual do Maranhão (UEMA), 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 Estadual do Maranhão (UEMA). 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.