Author Rights Policy: quick check guide (for articles published on a subscription basis from 26 April 2016)
As a Named Author of an article published with IOP Publishing, you are granted back certain reuse and depositing rights under the copyright form and Author Rights Policy. The rights you are granted varies, depending on which version of the article you wish to use.
This table is intended as a quick reference guide for our current Author Rights Policy. You must read the full Author Rights Policy, to ensure you are adhering to the full terms and conditions of the policy, before posting online or reusing any content you published with IOP Publishing.
This Author Rights Policy only applies to some of our journals (those listed at the end of the Policy). All other journals published by IOP Publishing have different author rights policies, please check our Author Rights Policy webpage for information (if this doesn’t cover the journal you published your article in, please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org).
| Author rights | Preprint | Accepted manuscript | Final published version
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Further info |
| Posting on personal website
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Yes – anytime
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Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on employer’s or institution’s website
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Yes – at anytime
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Yes – 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on non-commercial institutional or subject repository
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Yes – at anytime
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Yes – 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
See exceptions for HEFCE post-2014 REFpolicy requirements in policy
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| Posting on non-commercial Scientific Social Network
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Yes – at anytime | Yes – 12 month embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on commercial Scientific Social Network | Yes – at anytime
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No | No | See full conditions in Policy.
Examples of commercial SSNs are ResearchGate, Mendeley*, Academia.edu
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| *Posting in own private library on Mendeley
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Yes – no embargo | Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on arXiv | Yes – anytime | Yes – 12 month embargo
(NB. A few of our journals allow immediate posting) |
No | See full conditions in Policy (including which journals allow immediate posting).
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| Posting on bioRxiv | Yes – anytime
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Yes – 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Use all or part of the article without modification in personal compilations of own works (provided not created by third party publisher)
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Yes | Yes | No | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Making copies for teaching purposes
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Include in a research thesis or dissertation (provided not published commercially)
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Yes – at anytime | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Make oral presentation of article & include summary/highlights of it in papers distributed at presentations
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Include summary/highlights of article in conference proceedings
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Use original figures allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – three figures only may be used | Yes – three figures only may be used | Yes – three figures only may be used | See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section. |
| Use original text allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section |