Università Bocconi was established in Milan in 1902, with a generous endowment from Ferdinando Bocconi, a wealthy merchant. Named for his lost son, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi became the first Italian institution of higher education to grant a degree in economics.

Today, Bocconi is a private research university of international standing in business, economics, and law. Its research projects are funded by national and supranational institutions. By virtue of being a major node in the European and global network of business and economics universities, Bocconi exchanges faculty and cooperates on large projects with like-minded European and American universities and business schools. Bocconi has close relations with major corporations and international agencies, as well as their managers and officials, and constantly interacts with the business and economic environment to assess new issues, implement new techniques, and start new research endeavors.

Università Bocconi has an Undergraduate School, a Graduate School, a School of Law and a PhD School while SDA Bocconi School of Management, founded in 1971, takes care of the post-experience management education.

Bocconi grants Bachelor, Master of Science, and PhD degrees in Management, Economics, Law and other disciplines. It also offers a number of post-experience programs, and administers hundreds of advanced courses to managers and professionals in all realms of private and public management.

Currently, the Bocconi Library has signed the national contract between CRUI and IEEE. Thanks to the transformative agreements, the authors affiliated with Bocconi University can publish in open access without additional fees (APC – Article Processing Charges) -under a Creative Commons license (generally CC-BY)- in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals.

Only the corresponding author affiliated with Bocconi University is eligible to publish under the Bocconi-IEEE transformative agreements.

The Library will verify the author affiliation and will validate the request for open access publication, according to the procedure established by the publisher on it publishing platform.

Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.