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Researchers from institutions within the MALMAD consortium

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with MALMAD, the Israeli Inter-University Centre for Digital Information Services in Israel 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.

Watch our webinar to find out more about the agreement: Open access for Israel with IOP Publishing

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

Eligible institutions
Ariel University
Bar-Ilan University
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israel Institute for Biological Research
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Tel Aviv University
Weizmann Institute of Science

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

Researchers from institutions within Biblioteca do conhecimento online (b-on)

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Biblioteca do conhecimento online (b-on) in Portugal 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?
• Research papers, special issues, letters and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B and C in the title list of eligible journals
• 44 articles per calendar year, will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves.

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 on journals that offer hybrid publications options, at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.

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

Eligible institutions:

Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação
Banco de Portugal
CESPU – Cooperativa De Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário, C.R.L.
Egas Moniz – Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, C.R.L.
ENSILIS – Educação e Formação, Unipessoal, Lda.
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Coimbra
Escola Superior de Enfermagem de Lisboa
Escola Superior de Enfermagem do Porto
Escola Superior de Hotelaria e Turismo do Estoril
Escola Superior Náutica Infante D. Henrique
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian – Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Fundação D. Anna de Sommer Champalimaud e Dr. Carlos Montez Champalimaud
Fundação Minerva – Cultura – Ensino e Investigação Científica (Universidade Lusíada)
INFARMED – Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde, I.P.
Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Tecnologia e Ciência (INESC TEC)
Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal e Ciências Forenses, I.P.
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Instituto Politécnico da Guarda
Instituto Politécnico de Beja
Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Instituto Politecnico de Lisboa
Instituto Politécnico de Portalegre
Instituto Politécnico de Santarém
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu
Instituto Politecnico do Cavado e do Ave
Instituto Politécnico do Porto
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I.P.
Instituto Universitário da Maia (ISMAI)
Instituto Universitário Militar (IUM)
International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory
ISCTE-IUL – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
ISPA – Instituto Universitário de Ciências Psicológicas, Sociais e da Vida
Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P.
Nacional de Engenharia Civil – LNEC
SCML-Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa
Universidade Aberta
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa
Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Universidade da Beira Interior
Universidade da Madeira
Universidade de Aveiro
Universidade de Coimbra
Universidade de Évora
Universidade de Lisboa
Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Universidade do Algarve
Universidade do Minho
Universidade do Porto
Universidade dos Açores
Universidade Fernando Pessoa
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique

Eligible Journals for Transformative Agreements

Please check your relevant support page here to see which journal lists apply for your agreement.

Use IOPP Journal Finder to see if you might be covered by a transformative agreement.

Go to IOPP Journal Finder

Additionally, you may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful.

  • List A: Journals included in all transformative agreements;
  • List B: Society partner journals;
  • List C: The Electrochemical Society journals;
  • List D: Gold open access journals.

List A: Journals included in all transformative agreements.

Reports on Progress in Physics does not include review article types.

Journal acronym Online ISSN Title
2DM 2053-1583 2D Materials
BB 1748-3190 Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
BF 1758-5090 Biofabrication
BMM 1748-605X Biomedical Materials
BPEX 2057-1976 Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
CQG 1361-6382 Classical and Quantum Gravity
EJP 1361-6404 European Journal of Physics
ERX 2631-8695 Engineering Research Express
EST 2516-1075 Electronic Structure
FPE 2058-8585 Flexible and Printed Electronics
IP 1361-6420 Inverse Problems
JBR 1752-7163 Journal of Breath Research
JMM 1361-6439 Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
JNE 1741-2552 Journal of Neural Engineering
JOPT 2040-8986 Journal of Optics
JPCM 1361-648X Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
JPhysA 1751-8121 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
JPhysB 1361-6455 Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
JPhysD 1361-6463 Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
JPhysG 1361-6471 Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
JRP 1361-6498 Journal of Radiological Protection
MAF 2050-6120 Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
MET 1681-7575 Metrologia
MSMSE 1361-651X Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
MST 1361-6501 Measurement Science and Technology
NANO 1361-6528 Nanotechnology
NANOFUT 2399-1984 Nano Futures
NON 1361-6544 Nonlinearity
PB 1478-3975 Physical Biology
PE 1361-6552 Physics Education
PMB 1361-6560 Physics in Medicine & Biology
PMEA 1361-6579 Physiological Measurement
PPCF 1361-6587 Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
PRGB 2516-1091 Progress in Biomedical Engineering
PRGE 2516-1083 Progress in Energy
PS 1402-4896 Physica Scripta
PSST 1361-6595 Plasma Sources Science and Technology
QST 2058-9565 Quantum Science & Technology
ROPP 1361-6633 Reports on Progress in Physics (excludes review article types)
SMS 1361-665X Smart Materials and Structures
SST 1361-6641 Semiconductor Science and Technology
STMP 2051-672X Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties
SUST 1361-6668 Superconductor Science and Technology

List B: Society Partner journals

These are hybrid journals that we manage in partnership with the society publishers. Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission.

Journal acronym Online ISSN Journal Name
ANSN 2043-6262 Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
EPL 1286-4854 EPL
FDR 1873-7005 Fluid Dynamics Research
FCS 2631-6331 Functional Composites and Structures
JJAP 1347-4065 Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
JCAP 1475-7516 Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
JINST 1748-0221 Journal of Instrumentation
JSTAT 1742-5468 Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment
LP 1555-6611 Laser Physics
LPL 1612-202X Laser Physics Letters
PASP 1538-3873 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

List C: The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals

Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission. If ECS journals are not covered by your transformative agreement, please check to see if your institution subscribes to ECS Plus.

Journal acronym Online ISSN Journal Name
JSS 2162-8777 ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
JES 1945-7111 Journal of the Electrochemical Society

List D: Gold open access journals

These are fully open access journals. Please check the relevant agreement page prior to submission to see if List D is funded by your institution.

Journal acronym Online ISSN Journal Name
APEX  1882-0786 Applied Physics Express
ECS Advances 2754-2734 ECS Advances*
ECS Sensors Plus 2754-2726 ECS Sensors Plus*
ERC 2515-7620 Environmental Research Communications
ERCL 2752-5295 Environmental Research: Climate*
ERE 2752-664X Environmental Research: Ecology*
ERH 2752-5309 Environmental Research: Health*
ERIS 2634-4505 Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability
ERL 1748-9326 Environmental Research Letters
IJEM 2631-7990 International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
JPCO 2399-6528 Journal of Physics: Communications
JPCOMPLEX 2632-072X Journal of Physics: Complexity
JPENERGY 2515-7655 Journal of Physics: Energy
JPMATER 2515-7639 Journal of Physics: Materials
JPPHOTON 2515-7647 Journal of Physics: Photonics
MLST 2632-2153 Machine Learning: Science and Technology
MQT 2633-4356 Materials for Quantum Technology
MRX 2053-1591 Materials Research Express
NANOX 2632-959X Nano Express
NCE 2634-4386 Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering
NF  1741-4326 Nuclear Fusion
NJP 1367-2630 New Journal of Physics

*100% introductory waiver is currently applied.

How can I tell what licence my gold open access article is published under?

The Accepted Manuscripts and Final Published Versions of articles published under the gold open access model by IOP are currently, unless stated otherwise, published under a Creative Commons Attribution licence (CC BY). The Accepted Manuscripts and Final Published Versions of articles published under the gold open access model by IOP prior to 2013 are, unless stated otherwise, published under a CC BY-NC-SA licence. Please check the first page of the article itself to clarify under which licence it was published.

The article was published under the gold open access model under a CC BY-NC-ND licence. Are there any restrictions as to where I can deposit the Accepted Manuscript or the Final Published Version?

For articles published under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, you—in common with all third parties—may reuse the article for non-commercial purposes only and may post the article to non-commercial repositories and non-commercial websites so long as you include attribution to the authors and the journal citation, and so long as no modifications or adaptions were made to the article. If you wish to modify, adapt, or otherwise transform the article, you may not distribute the modified version.  For full licence terms and attribution requirements, please refer to the CC-BY-NC-NC licence on the Creative Commons website.

May I submit the Accepted Manuscript or the Final Published Version of a subscription article to arXiv.org or another repository?

The Final Published Version / Version of Record of a subscription article cannot be shared online in any circumstances (including to a personal website, or any non-commercial repositories). The Named Authors can, however, deposit the Accepted Manuscript version of a subscription article on a non-commercial institutional or subject based repository, including arXiv.org, after the expiry of the 12 month post publication embargo period. When depositing the Accepted Manuscript, the Named Authors must ensure that any copyright notice and any cover sheet applied by IOP is not deleted or modified, the Accepted Manuscript is only made available under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, and the following wording is included: ‘This is the Accepted Manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in [NAME OF JOURNAL]. IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it. The Version of Record is available online at [insert DOI].’

CC BY-NC-ND licence

Authors publishing in select The Electrochemical Society (ECS) journals may choose to publish under either a CC BY licence or a CC BY-NC-ND licence when publishing on a gold open access basis. Articles published under a CC BY-NC-ND licence may only be used for non-commercial purposes and no derivative works may be shared.

The CC BY licence allows you to:

  1. Copy, distribute and transmit the Final Published Version and/or the Version of Record of the article for non-commercial purposes and
  2. Post the Final Published Version and/or the Version of Record of the article in a non-commercial repository at any time after publication by IOP (see our Author Rights Policy for information on commercial repositories)

on the condition that (see licence for full terms):

  1. Attribution to the author(s), the title of the work, journal citation and DOI is maintained
  2. A link to the licence is provided
  3. You indicate if any changes were made and
  4. The content is only used for non-commercial purposes (note that publishing a research article or a figure in another publication is deemed to be
    commercial use).

If you wish to use the content licensed under a CC BY-NC-ND licence for commercial purposes, or if you wish to share adaptations of content published under a CC BY-NC-ND licence, even for non-commercial purposes, then you must obtain the express permission of the copyright owner.

Please note that you must still obtain express permission from the relevant copyright owner to reuse any third party content contained within the article (as content which is not original to the article will not be covered by the CC BY-NC-ND licence).

Updating your availability on ScholarOne

If you are planning on being unavailable for a period of time, please enter the dates into the ‘Unavailable Dates’ section OF the ‘User ID / Password & Other Information’ area of your ScholarOne account. This will help ensure we do not send you requests to review an article while you are unavailable.