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IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with TIB – Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology in Germany 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 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.

Discover high impact papers published through the TIB agreement in our celebratory collection.

For more information, please contact either your relevant library contact at your university or tib-konsortien@tib.eu.

Eligible institutions

Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Deutsche Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA)
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Deutsches Zentrum für Luftund Raumfahrt (DLR)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Fachhochschule Bielefeld
Fachhochschule Münster
Forschungsverbund Berlin (MBI, FBH, PDI, IKZ)
Forschungszentrum Jülich
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
Freie Universität Berlin
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Helmholtz Zentrum München – Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR)
Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
Helmut-Schmidt-Universität – Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg
Hochschule Emden/Leer
Hochschule Offenburg
Hochschule RheinMain
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Jade Hochschule
Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Leibniz Universität Hannover/TIB
Leibniz-Institut für Festkörperund Werkstoffforschung Dresden (IFW)
Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik (IHP)
Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien (INM)
Leibniz-Institut für Plasmaforschung und Technologie (INP)
Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (IPF)
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Mathematische Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO)
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Philipps-Universität Marburg
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB)
Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen
Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen
Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg
Technische Universität Berlin
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Technische Universität Chemnitz
Technische Universität Clausthal
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Technische Universitat Dortmund
Technische Universität Dresden
Technische Universität Hamburg
Technische Universität Ilmenau
Technische Universität München
Universität Bayreuth
Universität Bielefeld
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Universität Duisburg-Essen
Universität Freiburg
Universität Greifswald
Universität Hamburg
Universität Kassel
Universität Konstanz
Universität Leipzig
Universität Paderborn
Universität Potsdam
Universität Regensburg
Universität Rostock
Universität Siegen
Universität Stuttgart
Universität Ulm
Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik (WIAS)
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

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

Jane Hesling, Associate Editor, IOP Publishing

Delivered live online on Nov 20 2018 | 41 mins

The webinar, aimed at early career researchers, will cover a range of topics including how to choose the right journal, peer-review and publication ethics, and your open access publishing options thanks to funding agreements in Austria. Watch it here free of charge.

Use this quick check table to see which Author Rights Policy is applicable to which journal.

Hybrid and subscription-only journals	Fully gold open access journals	Journals with alternative author rights policies
For articles published on a subscription basis, please see Author rights policy (subscription articles) For articles published on a gold open access basis, please see Open access rights and licence information 2D Materials Biofabrication Bioinspiration & Biomimetics Biomedical Materials Biomedical Physics and Engineering Express Classical and Quantum Gravity Electronic Structure Engineering Research Express European Journal of Physics Flexible and Printed Electronics Fluid Dynamics Research Functional Composites and Structures Inverse Problems Journal of Breath Research Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering Journal of Neural Engineering Journal of Optics Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter Journal of Radiological Protection Laser Physics Laser Physics Letters Measurement Science and Technology Methods and Applications in Fluorescence Metrologia Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering Multifunctional Materials Nano Futures Nanotechnology Nonlinearity Physica Scripta Physical Biology Physics Education Physics in Medicine and Biology Physiological Measurement Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Plasma Research Express Plasma Sources Science and Technology Progress in Biomedical Engineering Progress in Energy Quantum Science and Technology Reports on Progress in Physics Semiconductor Science and Technology Smart Materials and Structures Superconductor Science and Technology Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties	All articles in the following journals are published under a CC BY licence AI for Science Applied Physics Express ECS Advances ECS Sensors Plus Environmental Research Communications Environmental Research Letters Environmental Research: Climate Environmental Research: Ecology Environmental Research: Energy Environmental Research: Food Systems Environmental Research: Health Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability Environmental Research: Water International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering IOP SciNotes Journal of Physics Communications Journal of Physics: Complexity Journal of Physics: Conference Series Journal of Physics: Energy Journal of Physics: Materials Journal of Physics: Photonics Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering Machine Learning: Earth Machine Learning: Engineering Machine Learning: Science and Technology Materials for Quantum Technology Materials Futures Materials Research Express Nano Express Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering New Journal of Physics Sustainability Science and Technology	For the following journals, please see AAS author rights policy: Planetary Science Journal Research Notes of the AAS The Astronomical journal The Astrophysical Journal The Astrophysical Journal Letters The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series   For the following journals, please see ECS author rights policy: ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology Journal of The Electrochemical Society   For the following journals, please see JSAP author rights policy: Applied Physics Express (up to 2 October 2023) Japanese Journal of Applied Physics   For the following journals, please see PASP author rights policy: Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific   For the following journals, please refer to the copyright and licensing information for each journal: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics Journal of Instrumentation Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment   For the following journals, please contact our partner: Advances in Natural Sciences: Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Chinese Physics B Chinese Physics C Chinese Physics Letters Communications in Theoretical Physics EPL Journal of Semiconductors Nuclear Fusion Physics-Uspekhi Plasma Science and Technology Quantum Electronics Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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IOP Publishing requires all authors to declare any funding they received related to the research article they are submitting for publication.

When you submit your paper, you will be asked to provide information on all funders associated with your work in the section called ‘Policies & Information’. It is important that you enter this information to comply with funder publication policies and to enable our editors to assess any conflicts of interest.

The funding information you provide in the online submission system must match any funders you intend to list in the acknowledgments section of your article.

When asked about funding in the online submission system, please start to write the name of your funder and then select the relevant funder from the list that appears. Please only write the full name of your funder manually if you do not see your funder in the list. Please provide grant numbers for all the funders you acknowledge.

You must ensure you obtain any necessary permissions from your funder(s) before submitting your article.

Is the article scientifically correct and robust? Are the methods and results presented in a reproducible way and appropriately analysed to support the conclusions?

Originality: A measure of the novelty of the ideas, techniques and results reported in the manuscript compared to the existing literature.

Scientific rigour: A measure of how well the experiment has been carried out; whether all necessary details of the method and results are presented in a way that they can be reproduced; and whether the results have been appropriately analysed and discussed. (This includes the testability of any theoretical predictions or modelling.)

Significance: A measure of the importance and likely impact of the work within the article’s field.

Clarity: A measure of how clearly the authors have written the article and presented the information.