Please refer to our preprint pre-publication policy.

After acceptance

Each Named Author of an article to be published/published on a subscription basis may post the Preprint or Author’s Original to those sites listed in the preprint pre-publication policy at any time.

Each Named Author of an article to be published/published on a subscription basis may post the Preprint or Author’s Original to a non-commercial third party website at any time after the article has been accepted, but not on the websites of other publishers, provided that:

Once the Final Published Version has been published, authors should add citation details and a link from their posting of the Preprint/Author’s Original to the Version of Record via its Digital Object Identifier (DOI). IOP also requires that Named Authors include the Statement of Provenance as set out below.

You may indicate that the CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence applies after the Embargo Period by including the following wording on the Accepted Manuscript, “This Accepted Manuscript is available for reuse under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence after the 12 month embargo period provided that all the terms of the licence are adhered to” (unless there is a cover sheet applied to it by IOP which already states this).

Once the Final Published Version has been published on IOPscience, in all cases where the Accepted Manuscript has been posted, Named Authors must add citation details and a link from your posting of the Accepted Manuscript to the Version of Record via DOI.  IOP requires that Named Authors include the Statement of Provenance as set out in the ‘Definitions’ section below.

Named Authors may not post the Accepted Manuscript in any repositories, Scientific Social Networks or websites that automatically apply an open access licence to the article granting reuse rights under the terms of the repository, Scientific Social Network or website (unless it applies a CC BY-NC-ND licence, in which case it may only be posted under that licence after the Embargo Period).

For clarity, IOP only currently applies the CC BY-NC-ND licence to Accepted Manuscripts of articles published in the Journals which apply to this policy (and this only applies after the Embargo Period).

Named Authors are granted certain limited rights to use the Final Published Version of the article as expressly set out in the signed Copyright Form for the article. No use should be made of the Final Published Version except for those rights expressly granted to the Named Authors.

Named Authors may NOT post, share or deposit the Final Published Version or Version of Record online in any circumstances (this includes not posting it on their Personal Websites, not posting it to sites such as ResearchGate, Mendeley and Academia.edu, and not posting it to any other websites or repositories).

Third parties/subscribers cannot make the Final Published Version publicly available, or deposit it anywhere, post it online or share it with anyone who is not a subscriber to the particular Journal.

The Final Published Version and the Version of Record of articles published under the subscription model are fully protected by copyright and must only be published online by IOP or its licensors.

Each Named Author of an article published on a subscription basis may post the abstract at any time after publication of the Final Published Version, on any repository, Scientific Social Network or third party website (in all cases ONLY where non-commercial) but not on the websites of other publishers, provided in all cases that the Named Author includes a link via DOI to the abstract page of the Final Published Version of the article on IOPscience. No changes may be made to the abstract. Any links, brands, trademarks or copyright notices embedded in the abstract must remain intact.

It is important to understand which version of an article you are reading and what rights you have when you access our content. Is it the un-edited manuscript, the peer-reviewed manuscript, the final version or one that has been corrected post-publication? The following are our current definitions of the different versions of an article and apply to both subscription and gold open access articles.

Author’s Original/Preprint is ‘the version of the article before peer review or editing, as submitted by an author to the journal’.

Accepted Manuscript is ‘the version of the article accepted for publication including all changes made as a result of the peer review process, and which may also include the addition to the article by IOP Publishing of a header, an article ID, a cover sheet and/or an ‘Accepted Manuscript’ watermark, but excluding any other editing, typesetting or other changes made by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors’.

Final Published Version is ‘the peer reviewed, edited, formatted and typeset version of the article, including any tagging, indexing and other enhancements published by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors’.

Version of Record is ‘the Final Published Version, including any post publication corrections or enhancements and any other changes made by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors’.

IOP reserves the right to issue take-down notices to anyone or any site which infringes this policy or to take other action as it considers to be appropriate.

In the case of any discrepancy between the definitions contained on this page and those on the Copyright Form, the definitions on the Copyright Form will prevail.

(each a ‘Journal’ and together the ‘Journals’).

For further information, please refer to IOP’s FAQs.

See here for CHORUS requirements, or please refer to IOP’s open access page.

Any questions should be addressed to permissions@iop.org.

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