Traditionally recognized as an institution specializing in health sciences, Unifesp is responsible for training qualified human resources and developing scientific research in Biological, Exact and Earth Sciences, Health, Humanities, Social Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Engineering and Linguistics, Literature and Arts.

The Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), 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 São Paulo (UNIFESP). 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.