Reviewer of the Year: Angel Caputi, Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To see if your institution is covered by a transformative agreement, or to check compliance with funder requirements, you can use the IOPP Journal Finder tool.
Alternatively, visit ‘Transformative and institutional open access agreements’ and select the relevant country to find the agreement you may be covered by. Each agreement page lists all of the member institutions and eligible journals.
When you are ready to start your submission, follow steps 1-4 on our submission system; ScholarOne.
Note: a small number of eligible journals do not use the ScholarOne submission system.
At step 4, as the corresponding author, your name, institution and OrcidID will be populated by the information held in your author account in ScholarOne. Any changes to your contact information can be made in your author account.
You can also edit your institution on the submission form by selecting Actions and Edit. Choosing from the list of matching institutions will help us to identify your paper for transformative agreement funding.
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.
At step 5 you have an option to indicate your preferred and non-preferred reviewers.
At step 6 you will see your options for publishing your article open access. The open access options will vary depending on whether you are submitting to a hybrid or fully open access journal, and if there are waivers that may be available to you.
Before making your open access choice we recommend that you check whether your institution and journal are covered by a transformative agreement, using the IOPP Journal Finder Tool.
Typical hybrid journal open access options are seen below. If you discover that you may be eligible for TA Funding, you can select: Yes: Standard rate.
Typical fully open access options are seen below.
Important: If you are publishing in a hybrid journal and your article is not eligible for TA funding, or if funding is declined by your institution, your article will be published under a subscription license.
If you are publishing in a fully open access journal and your article is not eligible for TA funding, or if funding is declined by your institution, you will be charged the APC.
Please be assured that whichever option you choose, we will always investigate whether you are eligible for transformative agreement funding.
During the initial assessment of your article, we will check eligibility for transformative agreement funding and let you know if you are eligible via email. The subject line will be: ‘Open access options for your article: [article ID]’
Some transformative agreements require IOPP to gain funding approval from your institution. In this case, you will receive a slightly different e-mail, letting you know that funding is subject to approval from your institution
This is the e-mail you will receive if your article does not require library validation:
This is what you will receive if your article does require library validation:
When you choose open access, you will be asked to sign an open access copyright form to publish under a CC BY licence.
For most transformative agreements where no validation is required your article will be published open access under the terms of the agreement, and there will be no APC to pay.
If your institution needs to approve funding, there will be a ‘validation’ step before your article will be published open access under the terms of the agreement. If your funding is declined, your article will be published and available via a journal subscription.
A small number of our partner journals do not use ScholarOne. For these, the submission process will differ but articles that may be eligible will still be identified for funding and you will receive one of the above e-mails.
Signing your copyright form to publish under a transformative agreement
Watch our short video to find out what the CC BY licence covers, why it’s important, and how to sign it.
Prefer to watch the author guide in video format?
See the stages in the ScholarOne submission system
Please see “Reusing IOP Published Content” for details on the permissions request process
All IOP authors who publish on a subscription basis may include original figure(s) and text from articles they have written, within the quota outlined in the STM Guidelines, in new works created or co-created by them, provided that they notify IOP of their intended use. Where there are co-authors, you should inform them. Use which is not covered by the STM Permissions Guidelines, or which exceeds the STM Permissions Guidelines quotas, will require IOP’s permission (See “Reusing IOP Published content“). You must always cite the publication from which the figure(s)/text was taken.
If your article was published on an open access basis, you can use it without permission provided the relevant CC licence terms are adhered to.
When you transfer the copyright in your article to IOP, we grant back to you certain rights, including the right to include all or part of the Final Published Version of the article within any thesis or dissertation. Please note you may need to obtain separate permission for any third party content you include within your article. Please include citation details, “© IOP Publishing. Reproduced with permission. All rights reserved”. The only restriction is that if, at a later date, you want to share your thesis/dissertation online, permission to include the Final Published Version of the article within the online version of your thesis/dissertation will need to be sought from IOP. Alternatively, you may choose to replace the article in the online version of your thesis/dissertation with either a Preprint or the Accepted Manuscript version (if the embargo period has passed), provided you comply with our Preprint Policy or Author Rights: Accepted Manuscript policy, as relevant.
For information on permitted reuse for each of these versions, please refer to our Author Rights Policy
Authors retain copyright in any supplementary material, granting IOP a non-exclusive licence to reproduce it. You may reuse supplementary material to which you own the rights. This includes reuse of a video abstract, although you may need to obtain separate permission from the copyright owner for any third party content you included within it. The video abstract should reference the article, and, wherever possible, should provide a link back to the Version of Record of the article to which it relates.
If your institution is an IOP subscriber, use of this kind may be included in your licence; please check with your librarian. Non-subscribers may be permitted to do this under the terms of a licence from a local reproduction rights organisation (RRO). In the UK, this will be the CLA and in the US, the CCC. Pay-per-use permission for photocopying and electronic use is available via the CCC.
Generally, adapted figures require the permission of the copyright owner of the original figure. You do not require permission if the figure you have created is so different from the original that it is no longer recognisable. This is judged on a qualitative not a quantitative basis. Therefore, even if you have only used one small part of the original figure, you will probably still require permission. Changing the font, colour or size of the figure, or only using part of it, still requires permission.
The content in IOP Publishing’s Conference Series journals are all published on a gold open access basis. From around Dec 2012, all of our conference series articles are published under a CC BY Licence. For further information on this, please see CC Licences. Older conference series articles were not published under a CC BY licence. You should check the licence on the article itself prior to use. If the article was not published under a CC BY licence or the article does not state what licence the article was published under, please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org to request permission if you wish to reuse any content from the article.
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.
Please see our Guide to open access for more information.
Please see our guide page on STM Guidelines for more information.
