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The Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) - Author Rights

Which articles published in Applied Physics Express or Japanese Journal of Applied Physics does this JSAP Author Rights Policy apply to?

Applied Physics Express (APEX) Articles

The below JSAP Author Rights Policy applies to subscription articles submitted to APEX up to and including 18 November 2018.

IOP’s Author Rights Policy and permissions policies apply to subscription articles submitted to APEX between 19 November 2018 and 2 October 2023.

Articles submitted to APEX from 3 October 2023 will be published on a Gold Open Access basis under a CC BY 4.0 licence (if accepted for publication).

Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP) Articles

The below JSAP Author Rights Policy applies to subscription articles in JJAP as follows:

  • For regular articles – submitted to JJAP up to and including 18 November 2018.
  • For special issues – for issues in JJAP up to and including issue SK (9s) published in 2019.

IOP’s Author Rights Policy and permissions policies applies to subscription articles in JJAP as follows:

  • For regular articles – submitted to JJAP from 19 November 2018.
  • For special issues – for issues in JJAP from issue SL (11s) published in 2019.

JSAP Author Rights Policy

Authors of subscription access articles published in either Applied Physics Express or Japanese Journal of Applied Physics are granted the following rights:

  1. The right to reproduce original figures and/or tables from one of their articles.
  2. The right to reproduce parts of their article.
  3. The right to post their Accepted Manuscript immediately on their personal website
  4. The right to post their Accepted Manuscript immediately to arXiv.
  5. The right to post their Accepted Manuscript immediately to the social networking sites Facebook, Instagram, Twitter & Line
  6. The right to post their Accepted Manuscript on their institution’s repository after a 12 month embargo period.

In the cases above, authors must:

  • cite the article as a reference (including journal title, volume, issue number, article ID and DOI);  and
  • clearly state the copyright line of the article including year of publication (in the case of figure/table reuse, authors must include the copyright line at the end of the figure caption).

Authors of subscription access articles published in either Applied Physics Express or Japanese Journal of Applied Physics also have the rights as set out in section 5 of the Copyright Policy of the Japan Society of Applied Physics.

Queries

For any queries regarding this policy, please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org