Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)
Located in the Southeast Region, the most industrialized in Brazil, UFMG, a free public higher education institution, is the oldest university in the state of Minas Gerais. It was founded on September 7, 1927, under the name Universidade de Minas Gerais (UMG). Its community brings together around 53 thousand people in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Montes Claros, Diamantina and Tiradentes, organized around 91 undergraduate courses, 90 postgraduate programs and 860 research centers. In 2020, UFMG achieved 1,582 patent registrations, which gives it a leading position among higher education institutions in the country.
The Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), 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 Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submission. 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.