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Outstanding Reviewers

Laure Gibot, Universite Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France

Isabel Amaral, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Richard Smith, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, United States of America

Alberto Sensini, Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Italy

Mariana Neves, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Michael McClure, Virginia Commonwealth University, United States of America

Nicola Contessi Negrini, Imperial College London, United Kingdom

Shiv Purohit, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India

Sydney Geissler, The University of Texas at Austin, United States of America

Viviana P. Ribeiro, Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Aruna Prasopthum, Walailak University, Thailand

Jayesh Bellare, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Toktam Ghassemi, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

Guangliang Zhang, Soochow University, China

Outstanding Reviewers

Kevin Leung, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, United States of America

Margarita Chevalier, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Adrian Chee, University of Waterloo, Canada

Matija Milanic, Univerza v Ljubljani, Slovenia

Sedigheh S Poul, Rochester University, United States of America

Reviewer of the Year: Angel Caputi, Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay

Outstanding Reviewers

Arman Hemmati, University of Calgary, Canada

Amy Lang, University of Alabama, United States

Anabela Maia, Eastern Illinois University, United States

Hao Li, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom

Keegan Lutek, University of Ottawa, Canada

Leah Mendelson, Harvey Mudd College, United States

Muhammad Saif Ullah Khalid, University of Alberta, Canada

Outstanding Reviewers

Nathalie Dusserre, INSERM, France

Cancan Xu, The University of Texas at Arlington, United States of America

Kyle DiVito, Georgetown University, United States of America

Carmine Onofrillo, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Duncan Davis-Hall, University of Colorado – Anschutz Medical Campus, United States of America

Małgorzata Włodarczyk-Biegun, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

Isabel Amaral, Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Laura Blaha, Boston University, United States of America

Serge Ostrovidov, University of California Los Angeles, United States of America

Jiabin Zhang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Liqun Ning, Emory University, United States of America

Shantanu Pradhan, University of Delaware, United States of America

Guangliang Zhang, Soochow University, China

Reviewer of the Year: Atsushi Yamaguchi, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan

Outstanding Reviewers

Kouichi Akahane, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Toru Akiyama, Mie University, Japan

Mitsuru Funato, Kyoto University, Japan

Hisashi Sumikura, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Japan

Motoaki Iwaya, Meijo University, Japan

Jiujiu Chen, Hunan University, China

Joel Asubar, University of Fukui, Japan

Kentaro Kutsukake, RIKEN, Japan

Koji Kita, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Makoto Miyoshi , Nagoya Intitute of Technology, Japan

Satoshi Moriyama, Tokyo Denki University, Japan

Junichi Motohisa, Hokkaido University, Japan

Narihito Okada, Yamaguchi University, Japan

Raphael Butte, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Naoteru Shigekawa, Osaka City University Graduate School of Engineering Faculty of Engineering, Japan

Takao Shimizu, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Shigehisa Shibayama, Nagoya University, Japan

Kenji Yoshino, University of Miyazaki, Japan

Jun Tatebayashi, Osaka University, Japan

Takashi Tsuchiya, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan

Akio Wakejima, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

Xinqiang Wang, Peking University, China

Outstanding Reviewers

Francesco Colangelo,  ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Lin Wang, Center for High Pressure Science and Technology Advanced Research, China

Yao Yao, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Héctor Corte-León, Nanosurf, Switzerland

Davide Curcio, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark

Giulia Fioravanti, Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy

Yukiaki Ishida, University of Tokyo, Japan

Johannes Binder, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Poland

Marcos Guimaraes, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Netherlands

Shashank Shekhar, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea

Victor Vainberg, Institut fiziki Nacional’na akademia nauk Ukraini, Ukraine

IOP Publishing (IOP) have transformative agreements with a number of institutions in Finland 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, special issue, 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.

Eligible institutions
Aalto University
Tampere University
University of Eastern Finland
University of Helsinki (includes Helsinki University Hospital)
University of Turku (includes Turku University Hospital)
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) in Canada to enable a transition towards 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 papers, special issues, letters 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.

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How to get published – a webinar for Canadian researchers
Find out how to take advantage of our agreement with Canadian Research Knowledge Network, providing open access publishing for researchers at more than 40 institutions in Canada.

Eligible institutions:

Acadia University
Athabasca University
Bishop’s University
Brandon University
Carleton University
Concordia University
Dalhousie University
École de technologie supérieure – part of Université du Québec
Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) – part of Université du Québec
Lakehead University
MacEwan University
McGill University
McMaster University
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Mount Allison University
Mount Saint Vincent University
National Research Council Canada
Ontario Tech University
Polytechnique Montréal
Queen’s University
Royal Military College of Canada (RMC)
Saint Mary’s University
Simon Fraser University
St. Francis Xavier University
Toronto Metropolitan University
Université de Moncton
Université de Montréal
Université de Sherbrooke
University of Alberta
University of British Columbia
University of Calgary
University of Guelph
University of Lethbridge
University of Manitoba
University of New Brunswick (includes St. Thomas)
University of Ottawa
University of Prince Edward Island
University of Regina
University of Saskatchewan
University of Toronto
University of Victoria
University of Waterloo
University of Windsor
University of Winnipeg
Western University
York University

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

What copyright form should I fill in?

Each journal has a specific copyright form that authors must sign before an article can be accepted. This will be made available to you by the journal team after article submission.

Can I reuse subscription content in my article if it is going to be published Open Access?

You will need to request permission because subscription articles are generally fully protected by copyright. When seeking permission, you should make it clear that the article will be published under the gold open access model (under the CC BY licence). If permission is granted, take care to include a © notice in the figure caption or adjacent to the content (in the form requested by the copyright owner in their permission). This ensures that it is clear to readers of the article that the figure/content is not included in the gold open access CC BY licence.

How do I request permission from third parties?

Information on how to request permission can usually be found on the website of each publisher. You may be able to gain the permission of the publisher via the ‘CCC Republication Service’ (many publishers now use this service, most having a direct link to this service from the article you wish to use content from). Otherwise you should contact the publisher directly. Depending on the publisher’s policy, you may also need the permission of the author. See “Reusing Third Party Materials in New IOP Content” for further information.

Do I still need to obtain permission to reuse content if…?

• The content is very old? Copyright lasts until 70 years after the author’s death (or the last remaining co-author if more than one person created the content). Therefore, content is protected by copyright for a substantial amount of time. Permission is required if the content is protected by copyright.
• I found it online? Free to view is not the same as free to reuse. Somebody created it, so it will be protected by copyright in most cases. Permission should always be requested from the copyright owner of any figure or photograph taken from the internet before it is used elsewhere (this might be the website owner or someone else if it is user-generated content posted by a user of the website). You should supply full details of the planned reuse when sending your request to the copyright owner. The only exceptions are works in the public domain, and content explicitly made available under a licence allowing for commercial reuse.
• I redrew/adapted the content? Yes – copyright protects against copying. Even if you created it yourself, if your content is based on other published material, you will need permission.
• I was the original creator of the published content? If it has already been published in a previous paper by a different publisher, that publisher probably owns the copyright and so you will need permission from them (unless that publisher’s author rights policy allows authors to reuse their own content).
• It has not been published before? If the figure(s) are unpublished, the copyright is likely to be owned by the person who created them, whose permission will be required. If you created the figure(s) which have not been published before, and did not create them as part of your employment, then you should not need permission. However, you need to check the terms of any contract you may have with any third party relating to the creation of any works which include the figure.
• It is properly referenced? Properly referencing the reused content ensures you are not plagiarising it, however it does not affect the need to obtain permission. Copyright protects against copying, regardless of proper attribution.
• There is no © sign next to the content? The © sign is just a way of showing who the copyright belongs to. Copyright exists automatically. Therefore, there does not need to be a © sign for the content to be protected by copyright. Permission will be required.
• It is ‘open access’? There are lots of different types of open access licences. You will need permission unless the licence under which the content was made available allows commercial reuse. Refer to this page for further details. You also need to ensure that the specific material you wish to reuse is original to the open access article. Figures that are credited to another source are still likely to require permission.
• It is a graph/table of data? Reuse of a graphical/pictorial representation of data, e.g. a graph/table, does need permission (as someone has put effort into creating it). However, reuse of raw data does not generally need permission, provided you have plotted it into a completely different graph/table. You should however cite the source of the data.
• It is ‘fair use’? The US concept of fair use (which allows certain uses of content without permission) does not apply to IOP Publishing as we have to comply with UK copyright legislation.
• It was published by a signatory to the STM Permissions Guidelines? If the STM Signatory Publisher from which you wish to use figures/text extracts is listed in the first, ‘Automatic process’ column of the STM Permissions Guidelines, then you do not need permission if the amount of figures/text you want to use is within the quota allowed by the STM Permissions Guidelines. Otherwise, if the STM Signatory Publisher from which you wish to use figures/text extracts is listed in the second ‘Notification required’ column of the STM Permissions Guidelines, then use within the quota allowed by the STM Permissions Guidelines will be permitted free of charge, but permission must be obtained from the STM Signatory Publisher. See our guide to the STM Guidelines for further details.
• It was published by IOP or one of its partners? If you are submitting an article to be published by IOP, you may include original figure(s) from articles published in a journal owned by IOP, or in a partner journal for which IOP handles permissions, in new works created or co-created by you. You must always ensure that you have cited the prior publication from which the figures were taken. However, if IOP does not accept the article, and you wish to submit the article to another journal not published by IOP, you must obtain express permission from IOP to reuse any figures. If you wish to use figures published under the subscription model by one of our partner journals who handle their own permissions, you must contact the partner to request permission.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with two instiutions in Slovenia 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, special issue, 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 Journals List A, B, and D
University of Ljubljana

Eligible Journals List A, B, C and D
Institut Jožef Stefan

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