What is an APC?
An APC (Article Publishing Charge) is the fee that publishers charge for publication costs, generally for open access.
What is a transformative agreement?
An agreement that allows both access to the subscribed journal content from a publisher and open access publication in certain hybrid journals from that publisher at no cost to the researcher.
The institution that signs the agreement assumes the publication cost.
What is a hybrid journal?
A scientific journal where some of the content is only available to subscribed users and some is available open access after payment of an APC.
What is a gold journal?
These are scientific journals whose content is open access. They always require the author to pay an APC.
What transformative agreements currently exist at UPM? In which journals can I request an APC?
Only in hybrid journals included in the different agreements with:
Who can request an APC at UPM?
Research staff with a current academic/employment relationship with the Technical University of Madrid.
What requirements must I meet to access an APC?
- Signature: Must have signed with institutional affiliation: "Technical University of Madrid".
- Email address: Must be that of the corresponding author and must be institutional (xxx@upm.es or xxx@alumnos.upm.es). No other non-institutional email will be accepted.
- Current employment/academic relationship of the author with UPM.
Only 2 requests per corresponding author will be accepted for each publisher (except Elsevier).
Can I request an APC for an already published article?
No.
Changing the publication model once the article has been published is not permitted.
Who holds the copyright of an article funded by the transformative agreement?
The agreements allow authors to retain copyright and deposit their article in an open repository, with a Creative Commons licence.