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IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with a number of institutions in Hong Kong, SAR, to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?

• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D in the title list of eligible journals

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
For more information, please contact your relevant library contact at your university.

Eligible instiutions
Chinese University of Hong Kong* (21 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)
City University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong Polytechnic University*
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
University of Hong Kong* (21 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

*Please note funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with institutions within the CRUI consortium to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?

• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

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Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.

For more information, please contact your relevant library contact at your university or IOP_pubblicazione@crui.it

Eligible institutions
Agenzia nazionale per le nuove tecnologie, l’energia e lo sviluppo economico sostenibile – ENEA
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche – CNR
Elettra Synchrotron Trieste
Gran Sasso Science Institute – GSSI
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
Istituto nazionale di astrofisica
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN
Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica
Politecnico di Bari
Politecnico di Milano
Politecnico di Torino
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati – SISSA
Scuola Normale Superiore
Scuola Superiore Meridionale
Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia
Università degli Studi dell’Aquila
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Università degli Studi di Bologna
Università degli Studi di Brescia
Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Università degli Studi di Camerino
Università degli Studi di Catania
Università degli Studi di Ferrara
Università degli Studi di Firenze
Università degli Studi di Genova
Università degli Studi di Messina
Università degli Studi di Milano
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Università Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia
Università degli Studi di Napoli “Parthenope”
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Università degli Studi di Padova
Università degli Studi di Palermo
Università degli studi di Parma
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Università degli Studi di Perugia
Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata”
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Università degli Studi di Salerno
Università degli Studi di Trento
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Università degli studi di Verona
Università del Salento
Università della Calabria

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) to enable a transition to open access publishing from 1st January 2023.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the author that submits the manuscript and is responsible for communicating with the journal during the submission, peer review and publication process.

What’s included?

• Articles accepted from 1st January 2023 will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
A very limited number of journals carry additional charges. Please access the journal home pages here and check the publication charges tab for further information.
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
For more information, please contact your relevant library contact at your university.

Eligible institutions

Auckland University of Technology
Australian National University
Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Curtin University
Deakin University
Flinders University
Griffith University
La Trobe University
Macquarie University
Monash University
Murdoch University
Queensland University of Technology
RMIT University
Swinburne University of Technology
University of Adelaide
University of Auckland
University of Canterbury
University of Melbourne
University of Newcastle
University of New South Wales
University of Otago
University of Queensland
University of South Australia
University of Southern Queensland
University of Sydney
University of Tasmania
University of Waikato
University of Wollongong
Victoria University of Wellington
Western Sydney University

IOP Publishing has negotiated a transformative agreement with three institutions in Colombia to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are dependent on your eligible institution, please see the below list for details. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our transformative agreement hub.

Eligible institutions

Eligible Journals List A, B, C and D
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana* (2 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)
Universidad EAFIT

Eligible Journals list A, B and D
Universidad de los Andes

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Lithuanian Research Library Consortium (LMBA) in Lithuania to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?

• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
For more information, please contact your relevant library contact at your university.

Eligible institutions
Kaunas University of Technology
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Vilnius University
State Scientific Research Institute Center for Physical Sciences and Technology

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

IOP Publishing has a transformative agreement with Hellenic Academic Libraries Link (HEAL-Link) in Greece to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful, located in our transformative agreement hub.

For more information please contact your relevant library contact at your university or scholarly@heal-link.gr.

Eligible institutions

Aegean University
Biomedical Sciences Research Center “Alexander Fleming”
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA)
School of Pedagogical & Technological Education (A.S.PE.T.E.)
Athena – Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication and Knowledge Technologies
Academy of Athens
Agricultural University of Athens
Athens University of Economics & Business
University of Athens (or National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) (absorbed part of TEI of Sterea Hellas)
Centre for Research and Technology (C.E.R.T.H.)
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES)
University of Crete
National Centre of Scientific Research
National Centre for Social Research (EKKE)
Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH)
General Secretariat of Research and Technology – Ministry of Education
Harokopio University
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR)
Hellenic Agricultural Organization Demeter (former NAGREF)
Hellenic Mediterranean University
Hellenic Open University
Hellenic Parliament Library
Hellenic PASTEUR Institute
Aquaculture Centre of Acheloos S.A. (ICHTHICA)
Institute of Educational Policy
International Hellenic University (absorbed Alexandrio TEI of Thessaloniki, TEI of Central Macedonia, TEI of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace)
University of Ioannina (absorbed TEI of Epirus)
Ionion University (absorbed TEI of Ionian Islands)
University of Macedonia
National Hellenic Research Foundation & National Documentation Centre
National Library of Greece
National Observatory of Athens
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
Panteion University
University of Patras (absorbed University of West Greece, TEI of Western Greece)
University of Peloponnese (absorbed TEI of Peloponnese)
University of Piraeus
Technical University of Crete
University of Thessaly (absorbed University of Sterea Hellas, absorbed part of TEI of Sterea Hellas)
University of Thrace (or Democritus University of Thrace)
University of West Attica (merged TEI of Athens and TEI of Piraeus)
University of Western Macedonia (absorbed TEI of Western Macedonia)

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

This journal welcomes the submission of appropriately expanded, archival quality versions of papers that have been published in the proceedings of recent symposia, workshops and conferences. This is an opportunity for authors to formally publish new material and/or results that may not have been possible to include within the restrictive short form of a proceedings article.

To meet the publication requirements of this journal, the submission of an expanded conference paper must represent the mature and definitive archival report of the research and include all of the necessary background details to enable others to replicate the results and fully understand the methodology/techniques used.

As a guide, authors must ensure that they comply with the following requirements in preparing their expanded conference paper for formal submission to this journal:

• The submission must conform to the scope of the journal and display scientific rigour as well as originality beyond previously published work in the field. You can check the scope on the journal homepage.
• The submission must be expanded to include new results and/or accompanying material to the earlier conference paper in compliance with the journal’s acceptance criteria, which you can find on the journal homepage. The expectation is that the submission includes at least 30% new and original material beyond what has previously been published.
• The submission must clearly disclose the earlier proceedings publication by providing a full reference to the conference paper in the introduction, including the Digital Object Identifier (DOI), and a complete summary of the additional technical contributions.
• The submission must have a different title and abstract to the earlier conference paper.
• The submission must be accompanied by a cover letter that discloses the earlier conference paper and specifies the additional results and/or material that have been included. This is critical information to enable our reviewers and editors to judge whether the proposed new technical contributions are sufficient to justify publication.
• The submission must comply with IOP Publishing’s data availability policy. Please note that this policy requires authors to include a data availability statement in their article.

All expanded conference paper submissions are peer-reviewed in line with the standard process and editorial requirements of the journal. Submissions that do not conform with all of the above guidelines will not be considered for publication. All papers should be submitted for full peer review via the journal’s submission system.

Further details about publishing in this journal can be found on the journal homepage (see top of page).

IOP Publishing (IOP) has transformative agreements with a number of institutions in Mexico to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are dependent on your eligible institution, please see the below list for details. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for  submitting under a helpful transformative agreement  located in our  transformative agreement hub.

Eligible Journals List A, B, C and D
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV) * (27 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)* (20 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)* (110 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Eligible Journals List A, B and D
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica, A.C. (IPICYT)
Universidad de Guanajuato
Universidad de Monterrey * (2 articles per year for Eligible D journals accepted from the 1st of January)

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library .

IOP Publishing has negotiated transformative agreements with more than 200 institutions and consortia in the United States, listed below. These include Big Ten Academic Alliance, Lyrasis, OhioLINK, Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium, and the Virtual Library of Virginia.

” The IOP agreement will be an excellent benefit for NC State. NC State researchers can publish their articles as open access in IOP journals without having to pay the open access fees, increasing discoverability and readership of NC State scholarship”
Hilary Davis, Department Head, Collections & Research Strategy, NC State University Libraries.

Who can benefit?
All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the person listed as Corresponding Author at the time of submission, and is the person responsible for communicating with the journal during the peer review and publication process.

What’s included?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, Focus Collection, letter and review article types
• Included journals are dependent on your eligible institution, please see the below list for details. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our transformative agreement hub.

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Eligible Journals List A, B and D

Emory University (30 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Midwest Collaborative for Library Services (MCLS):
(60 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

• Andrews University
• Central Michigan University
• Kettering University
• Michigan Technological University
• Oakland University
• University of Detroit Mercy

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Nova Southeastern University

South Dakota Board of Regents:

• Black Hills State University
• Dakota State University
• Northern State University
• South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
• South Dakota State University
• University of South Dakota

Texas A&M University System (TAMU):

• Prairie View A&M University
• East Texas A&M University
• Tarleton State University
• Texas A&M International University
• Texas A&M University – Central Texas
• Texas A&M University – College Station
• Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
• Texas A&M University – Galveston
• Texas A&M University – Kingsville
• Texas A&M University – San Antonio
• Texas A&M University – Texarkana
• Texas A&M University College of Dentistry
• West Texas A&M University

Tulane University

Union College (5 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Kentucky (14 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Texas System (UTSystem):

• Baylor College of Medicine
• Houston Community College, Coleman College for Health Sciences
• Prairie View A&M College of Nursing
• Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health
• The University of Texas at Arlington
• The University of Texas at Austin
• The University of Texas at Dallas
• The University of Texas at El Paso
• The University of Texas at San Antonio
• The University of Texas at Tyler
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
• The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler
• The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• The University of Texas of the Permian Basin
• The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC):

• Salt Lake Community College
• Snow College
• Southern Utah University
• University of Utah
• Utah Tech University
• Utah Valley University
• Weber State University
• Westminster University

Washington State University

West Virginia University

Wesleyan University

Eligible Journals List A, B, C and D

Air Force Research Library Consortium:

• Air Force Institute of Technology
• Air Force Maui Optical and Supercomputing (AMOS) Site
• Air Force Office of Scientific Research
• Arnold Engineering Development Complex
• Edwards Air Force Base
• Air Force Research Laboratory – Eglin
• Fort Sam Houston
• Kirtland Air Force Base
• United States Air Force Research Laboratory – Rome
• Tyndall Air Force Base
• Wright-Patterson Air Force Base

Amherst College (5 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Argonne National Laboratory

Auburn University (15 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Baylor University (18 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA):

• Indiana University
• Michigan State University
• Northwestern University
• Pennsylvania State University
• Purdue University
• Rutgers University
• University of Chicago
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• University of Iowa
• University of Maryland – College Park
• University of Michigan – Ann-Arbor, Dearborn, Flint
• University of Minnesota
• University of Nebraska – Lincoln
• University of Oregon
• University of Washington
• University of Wisconsin – Madison

Binghamton University, SUNY

Boise State University

Carleton College

Carolina Consortium:

• Clemson University
• Davidson College
• East Carolina University
• Furman University
• North Carolina Central University
• North Carolina State University
• University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• University of South Carolina – Columbia
• Wake Forest University

Central Connecticut State University

Colorado School of Mines (10 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Colorado State University

College of the Holy Cross

Columbia University

Connecticut College

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Florida Institute of Technology

Florida State University (16 articles per year accepted from the 1st January) 

Georgia Institute of Technology (29 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

IBM Research (10 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Idaho National Laboratory

Illinois State University

Iowa State University*

Johns Hopkins University (33 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Kansas State University (18 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lehigh University

Los Alamos National Laboratory (32 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Lyrasis: (58 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

• Allegheny College
• Bucknell University
• Carnegie Mellon University
• Coastal Carolina University
• Dickinson College
• Drexel University
• Duquesne University
• Elon University
• Indiana State University
• Lafayette College
• Millersville University
• North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
• Shippensburg University
• University of North Carolina Asheville
• University of North Dakota
• University of Rhode Island
• The Rockefeller University
• Villanova University
• West Chester University
• Wofford College

Marquette University (8 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Missouri State University

Montana State University (10 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Mount Holyoke College (5 articles per year accepted from the 1st January)

National Laboratory of the Rockies

Naval Research Laboratory

North Dakota State University

Northeastern University

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK):

• Antioch College
• Antioch University
• Ashland University
• Baldwin Wallace University
• Belmont College
• Bluffton University
• Bowling Green State University
• Capital University
• Case Western Reserve University
• Cedarville University
• Central Ohio Technical College
• Central State University
• Cincinnati State Technical and Community College
• Clark State College
• Cleveland Clinic
• Cleveland State University
• College of Wooster
• Columbus State Community College
• Cuyahoga Community College
• Defiance College
• Denison University
• Edison State Community College
• Franciscan University of Steubenville
• Franklin University
• Heidelberg University
• Hiram College
• Hocking College
• John Carroll University
• Kent State University
• Kenyon College
• Lakeland Community College
• Lorain County Community College
• Lourdes University
• Malone University
• Marietta College
• Mercy College of Ohio
• Methodist Theological School In Ohio
• Miami University
• Mount St. Joseph University
• Mount Vernon Nazarene University
• Muskingum University
• North Central State College
• Northeast Ohio Medical University
• Northwest State Community College
• Oberlin College
• Ohio Christian University
• Ohio Dominican University
• Ohio Northern University
• Ohio State University
• Ohio University
• Ohio Wesleyan University
• Otterbein University
• Owens Community College
• Rhodes State College
• Shawnee State University
• Sinclair Community College
• Southern State Community College
• Stark State College
• State Library Of Ohio
• Terra State Community College
• Tiffin University
• University of Akron
• University of Cincinnati
• University of Dayton
• University of Findlay
• University of Mount Union
• University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College
• University of Toledo
• Ursuline College
• Walsh University
• Washington State Community College
• Wilmington College
• Wittenberg University
• Wright State University
• Xavier University
• Youngstown State University
• Zane State College

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Portland State University

Princeton University (67 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Rice University

Sandia National Laboratories

Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC):
(200 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)
Does not include Reports on Progress in Physics journal

• Austin College
• California Institute of Technology
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• California State University, Fullerton
• California State University, East Bay
• California State University, Long Beach
• California Polytechnic State University
• Chapman University
• Loyola Marymount University
• San Diego State University
• San Jose State University
• Santa Clara University
• Southern Methodist University
• Texas Christian University
• Texas State University, San Marcos
• Texas Tech University
• Trinity University
• University of Dallas
• University of Denver
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas
• University of Southern California

Swarthmore College

Syracuse University

University at Albany, SUNY

University at Buffalo, SUNY

University of Alabama at Birmingham (8 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Arizona (20 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of California Libraries:

• University of California Berkeley (includes Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
• University of California Davis
• University of California Irvine
• University of California Los Angeles
• University of California Merced
• University of California Office of the President
• University of California Riverside
• University of California San Diego
• University of California San Francisco
• University of California Santa Barbara
• University of California Santa Cruz

University of Central Florida (15 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Colorado Consortium (CU Consortium):

• University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
• University of Colorado Anschutz Medical
• University of Colorado, Boulder

University of Connecticut

University of Florida (40 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Georgia

University of Houston-Clear Lake

University of Idaho (5 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Kansas

University of Louisville

University of Massachusetts Amherst

University of Massachusetts Boston (16 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Massachusetts Lowell (11 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Miami

University of North Texas

University of Notre Dame (25 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Pennsylvania

University of Pittsburgh

Universidad de Puerto Rico – Recinto de Río Piedras (6 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of Rochester (15 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

University of South Florida

University of Wyoming

Utah State University

The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA):

• Blue Ridge Community College
• Brightpoint Community College
• Central Virginia Community College
• Christopher Newport University
• Danville Community College
• Eastern Shore Community College
• George Mason University
• Germanna Community College
• Hampden-Sydney College
• Hampton University
• Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
• J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
• James Madison University
• Laurel Ridge Community College
• Longwood University
• Mountain Empire Community College
• Mountain Gateway Community College
• New College Institute
• New River Community College
• Norfolk State University
• Northern Virginia Community College
• Old Dominion University
• Patrick & Henry Community College
• Paul D. Camp Community College
• Piedmont Virginia Community College
• Radford University
• Randolph-Macon College
• Rappahannock Community College
• Richard Bland College
• Roanoke College
• Southern Virginia Higher Education Center
• Southside Virginia Community College
• Southwest Virginia Community College
• Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center
• Sweet Briar College
• The University of Virginia’s College at Wise
• Tidewater Community College
• University of Mary Washington
• University of Richmond
• University of Virginia
• Virginia Commonwealth University
• Virginia Highlands Community College
• Virginia Military Institute
• Virginia Peninsula Community College
• Virginia State University
• Virginia Tech
• Virginia Western Community College
• Washington and Lee University
• William & Mary
• Wytheville Community College

Vanderbilt University

Washington University in St. Louis (26 articles per year accepted from the 1st of January)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Yale University

*Please note funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

How can IOP Publishing help early career researchers who are starting out in their publishing journey?

“IOP Publishing and publishers in general could offer more resources to train young scientists to write papers and to act as peer reviewers. For some unknown reason, academic education does not typically include official seminars or training about scientific writing and publishing. Both activities are typically passed on from mentor to mentee, naturally generating big gaps among scientists, which may ultimately affect their career. The ability to write a clear and convincing scientific text is not only key for publishing good papers but also to win grants, positions and, ultimately, to be visible in the community.”

Are there any tips, tools or websites that you would recommend?

“When writing a paper, it is important to communicate a clear message and to give the manuscript a clear structure. Also, using only essential words is much more effective than diluting the content in endless prose. During the peer-review process, it is important to always consider the referees’ comments on a factual level. Never take them personally.

I follow a few blogs about scientific writing. I can definitely suggest the one by Anna Clemens. It is regularly updated and offers a broad spectrum of suggestions and hints about scientific writing and about the whole publication process.”

What did you do after you published your paper? Did you promote it? How?

“I published my first paper in 2010 and back then social media was not very much used by the scientific community. To disseminate, I attended a number of conferences and workshops in which I presented the results of that paper.”

What would you say to an early career researcher who is asking the question “Should I consider publishing my research?”

“Publishing is the essence of scientific work. Any piece of work that is not published or disseminated to the community simply does not exist. Hence, if you want to give visibility to your work, you have to publish it. Very often, I see in young scientists the fear of submitting something that is not perfect, and this is usually the cause of big delays in publications. My motto is “published is better than perfect” and I encourage my young co-workers to wrap up their work effectively and disseminate it in a timely manner. Should the results be disproved later, well, this is how science works, right?”