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Author rights: Accepted Manuscript

After acceptance, each Named Author of an article to be published/published on a subscription basis may:

Unless otherwise stated, any reference below to an Embargo Period is a reference to a period of 12 months from the Date of Publication.

1. Post the Accepted Manuscript at any time on their Personal Website, provided that any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified. It may not be posted under any form of open access or Creative Commons Licence during the Embargo Period. After the Embargo Period, a CC BY-NC-ND licence applies to the Accepted Manuscript, in which case it may then only be posted under that CC BY-NC-ND licence provided that all the terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

2. Post the Accepted Manuscript on their employer’s or institution’s website after the Embargo Period under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, provided that all the terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

3. Post the Accepted Manuscript to an institutional repository or subject repository (in both cases ONLY where non-commercial) after the Embargo Period under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, provided that all terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified. The above should satisfy the requirements of research funders for ‘green open access’, such as the Chinese Academy of Sciences, US National Institutes of Health, NASA, NSF, US Department of Energy, NIST, National Research Council of Canada and Austrian Science Fund, to deposit the outputs of research funded by them in a repository.

4. Post the Accepted Manuscript to an institutional repository or a subject repository (in both cases ONLY where non-commercial) where necessary to comply with the requirements of the HEFCE REF 2021 open access policy. HEFCE’s requirements are as follows:

  • For articles with a Date of Acceptance between 1 April 2016 and 31 March 2018 inclusive, the Named Authors may make a Closed Deposit of the Accepted Manuscript to the non-commercial repository within three months of the Date of Publication of the article; or
  • For articles with a Date of Acceptance on or after 1 April 2018, the Named Authors may make a Closed Deposit of the Accepted Manuscript to the non-commercial repository within three months of the Date of Acceptance of the article.

In both the above cases, after the Embargo Period, the full text of the Accepted Manuscript may be made available on the non-commercial repository for anyone with an internet connection to read and download. After the Embargo Period a CC BY-NC-ND licence applies to the Accepted Manuscript, in which case it may then only be posted under that CC BY-NC-ND licence provided that all the terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

5. Post the Accepted Manuscript to a non-commercial Scientific Social Network after the Embargo Period under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, provided that all terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

6. NOT post the Accepted Manuscript to any commercial Scientific Social Network, commercial repository or any other publisher website. For example, ResearchGate, Mendeley* and Academia.edu are commercial Scientific Social Networks and so the Accepted Manuscript of the article may not be posted to them or shared on them.

7. *Post the Accepted Manuscript, in their private library on Mendeley (their private document file space which is not accessible by third parties), provided that any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

8. Post the Accepted Manuscript to arXiv after the Embargo Period under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, provided that all terms of the licence are adhered to, and any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified.

9. However, a limited number of IOP journals allow the Named Authors to post the Accepted Manuscript to arXiv at any time (please note that this does not apply to bioRxiv) provided that any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified. You must select the ‘non-exclusive licence to distribute‘ and not an open access or Creative Commons Licence offered by arXiv when uploading the article (You may indicate that the CC BY-NC-ND 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 licence after the 12 month embargo period provided that all the terms and conditions of the licence are adhered to’ (unless there is a cover sheet applied to it by IOP which already states this).  The journals this currently applies to are:

  • Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
  • Classical and Quantum Gravity
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
  • European Journal of Physics
  • Quantum Science and Technology

10. Post the Accepted Manuscript to bioRxiv after the Embargo Period, provided that any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified, provided you select the CC BY-NC-ND licence offered by bioRxiv under their ‘distribution/reuse options’ when uploading the article and provided all the terms of the licence are adhered to.

You may indicate that the CC BY-NC-ND 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 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, the 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 the Named Authors include the Statement of Provenance as set out in the ‘Definitions’ section below.

The 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 the Accepted Manuscripts of articles published in the Journals which apply to this policy (and this only applies after the Embargo Period).