IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with the ICM consortium in Poland 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.
Institutions included
| Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica |
AGH University of Science and Technology |
| Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN |
Center for Theoretical Physics PAS |
| Instytut Chemii Fizycznej PAN |
Institute of Physical Chemistry PAS |
| Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej im. H. Niewodniczańskiego PAN |
Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS |
| Instytut Fizyki Molekularnej PAN |
Institute of Molecular Physics PAS |
| Instytut Fizyki PAN |
Institute of Physics PAS |
| Instytut Fizyki Plazmy i Laserowej Mikrosyntezy |
Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion |
| Instytut Matematyczny PAN |
Institute of Mathematics PAS |
| Instytut Niskich Temperatur i Badań Strukturalnych PAN |
Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research PAS |
| Instytut Wysokich Ciśnień PAN |
Institute of High Pressure Physics PAS |
| Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych |
National Centre for Nuclear Research |
| Politechnika Gdańska |
Gdansk University of Technology |
| Politechnika Łódzka |
Lodz University of Technology |
| Politechnika Śląska |
Silesian University of Technology |
| Politechnika Warszawska |
Warsaw University of Technology |
| Politechnika Wrocławska |
Wroclaw University of Science and Technology |
| Sieć Badawczą Łukasiewicz – Instytut Chemii Przemysłowej im. Profesora Ignacego Mościckiego |
Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Industrial Chemistry Prof. I. Mościcki |
| Sieć Badawcza Łukasiewicz – Instytut Mikroelektroniki i Fotoniki |
Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics |
| Uniwersytet Gdański |
University of Gdansk |
| Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu |
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan |
| Uniwersytet Jagielloński – Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej |
Jagiellonian University in Krakow |
| Uniwersytet Łódzki |
University of Lodz |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej w Lublinie |
Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin |
| Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu |
Nicolaus Copernicus University |
| Uniwersytet Opolski |
University of Opole |
| Uniwersytet Rzeszowski |
University of Rzeszow |
| Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach |
University of Silesia in Katowice |
| Uniwersytet w Białymstoku |
University of Bialystok |
| Uniwersytet Warszawski |
University of Warsaw |
| Uniwersytet Wrocławski |
University of Wroclaw |
| Wojskowa Akademia Techniczna im. Jarosława Dąbrowskiego |
Military University of Technology |
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with CERN 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 CERN 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.
CERN experimental collaborations can also benefit from this Transformative Agreement. Inclusion may need to be requested by the author(s) if the article is not automatically picked up through our standard article processing. Please send requests for inclusion to open-access-questions@cern.ch.
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, Focus Collection, 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.
For more information or if you wish to publish Open Access in a journal not listed as part of this agreement, please contact open-access-questions@cern.ch.
Journal of Instrumentation
- CERN Corresponding Authors (as described above) will now receive Open Access funding through the Transformative Agreement terms.
- CERN co-authors can select the ‘CERN open access’ option and notify Journal of Instrumentation of their intention to publish Open Access during the submission process. Authors will not need to sign the copyright form, as CERN research articles are covered by a collective license agreement.
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with EISZ consortium in Hungary 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.
Eligible institutions
Centre for Energy Research
ELI-HU Non-profit Ltd
Institute for Nuclear Research
Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
University of Miskolci
University of Szeged
Wigner Research Centre for Physics
Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.
If your work involves live subjects (human or animal) you must provide an appropriate ethical statement when submitting your paper. The most suitable location for this is normally the methods section of the manuscript. However, to preserve anonymity in double-anonymous journals please do not add the ethical statement to the manuscript, instead complete the relevant section on the submission system.
Our editorial team checks all ethical statements are appropriate for the study being reported. Any manuscript submitted without a suitable ethical statement will be returned to the authors and will not be considered further until an appropriate and explicit statement is included.
Authors should include the following points in the ethical statement (if applicable) when submitting a paper:
- The institutional or national research ethics committee /review board that approved the research must be named. Include the approval number/ID if one was given. If the research received a waiver of approval from the ethics committee/review board or did not require approval for some other reason please state this and explain why.
- For investigations involving animal experimentation you should state which institutional and/or national animal care and use guidelines were followed.
- For investigations involving human participants:
- You should state that the research was conducted in accordance with the principles embodied in the Declaration of Helsinki and in accordance with local statutory requirements.
- You should state that all participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) gave written informed consent to participate in the study
- For research which involves identifiable human subjects (including donors of cells or tissues) you must include a statement confirming that consent was given for publication by all participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16). In order to protect participant anonymity, authors do not need to send proof of this consent to us at IOP Publishing. Where a donor has deceased prior to the research and is therefore unable to grant consent but is still identifiable (e.g. HeLa cells), their origin and lack of consent should be acknowledged.
- Articles relying on clinical trials should quote the trial registration number at the end of the abstract. IOP also encourages the registration of such studies in a public trials registry prior to participants being enrolled.
Ethics Gen Tool
Our free Ethics Generator Tool helps authors to provide correctly worded ethics statements to match the statement criteria of an author’s journal of choice. EthicsGen enhances the publishing experience for our authors, reviewers and readers, increase efficiency and speed, and supports our commitment to deliver the highest integrity standards.
When a statement is complete, the user can copy the text to the clipboard or download it as a file, then paste into the appropriate section on the submission form.
Double-anonymous submissions
- In double-anonymous journals please do not add the ethical statement to the manuscript, instead please complete the relevant section on the submission system. This information is not shared with reviewers and therefore does not need to be anonymised.
- If a reviewer feels they need to see an ethical statement, they are advised to contact the journal to discuss.
We have partnered with a number of institutions and consortia from across the globe to centrally manage the cost of article publication charges (APCs) and enable authors to publish research Open Access at no cost to themselves (specific terms and conditions vary).
Use IOPP Journal Finder to see if you might be covered by a transformative agreement.
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For more information and to see how to take advantage of these agreements, please see the individual web pages below. You may also find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful.
The Electrochemical Society (ECS) Journals
If you are submitting an article to a journal from The Electrochemical Society, you may be entitled to free open access under an institutional ECS Plus agreement. View the list of participating institutions and how to take advantage of this.
IOP Publishing (IOP) has transformative agreements with a number of institutions in the Netherlands 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 Journals List A, B, C and D
Delft University of Technology
Eindhoven University of Technology
Leiden University
Maastricht University
Radboud University
University of Amsterdam
University of Groningen
University of Twente
Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.
It is unethical to submit the same, or essentially the same, article to a second primary research journal whilst it remains under active consideration by another.
It is the corresponding author’s responsibility to ensure the paper is not under consideration by any other journal at the time of submission.
We follow COPE guidelines on studies involving vulnerable populations as set out in the COPE Core Principles (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Jisc Collections in the UK 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 title list of eligible journals, with the exception of Medical Engineering & Physics and International Journal Extreme Manufacturing which are not included in the agreement.
Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.
Discover high impact papers published through the Jisc agreement in our celebratory collection.
Eligible insitutions
Aberystwyth University
Aston University
Bangor University
Brunel University
Cardiff University
Cranfield University
Durham University
Heriot-Watt University
Imperial College London
Keele University
King’s College London
Lancaster University
Liverpool John Moores University
Loughborough University
National Oceanography Centre
Newcastle University
Northumbria University
Nottingham Trent University
Open University
Queen Mary University of London
Queen’s University Belfast
Sheffield Hallam University
STFC
Swansea University
UK Atomic Energy Authority
UK Health Security Agency
Ulster University
University College London
University of Aberdeen
University of Bath
University of Birmingham
University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
University of Central Lancashire
University of Chester
University of East Anglia
University of Edinburgh
University of Exeter
University of Glasgow
University of Hertfordshire
University of Hull
University of Kent
University of Leeds
University of Liverpool
University of Manchester
University of Nottingham
University of Oxford
University of Portsmouth
University of Reading
University of Sheffield
University of Southampton
University of St Andrews
University of Strathclyde
University of Sussex
University of Warwick
University of West of Scotland
University of York
Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.
We are committed to inclusivity within peer review and as such we periodically measure and report on the demographic profile of our author and reviewer groups. So that we can identify potential inequality and equity of opportunity, we are asking authors and reviewers to tell us more about themselves. You can choose not to tell us by selecting “Prefer not to say”, in which case your response will not be included in any reports we prepare. Data collected will only be reported at an aggregate level. We appreciate the terms used to describe gender identity can be problematic, and we have tried to be sensitive in our choice of language. We welcome feedback from the community on this and all our other initiatives to relating to inclusivity, so please do contact us with your comments.
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Read more about our work on inclusivity and diversity within physical science publishing.
