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As a Named Author of an article published with IOP Publishing on a subscription basis, you are granted back certain reuse & depositing rights under the copyright form and author rights policy.
This table is intended as a quick reference guide for our author rights policy (subscription articles). You must read the full author rights policy (subscription articles) to ensure you are adhering to the full terms and conditions of the policy, before posting online or reusing any content you published with IOP Publishing.
This Author Rights Policy only applies to some of our journals (those listed at the end of the Policy).
All other journals published by IOP Publishing have different author rights policies, please check our Author Rights Policies page for information. If this does not cover the journal you published your article in, please see this page which sets out our partners who have different policies which they handle themselves.
As an author of an article published on a subscription basis, which version of my article may I post and when? See quick check guide below.
| Author Rights | Preprint | Accepted Manuscript | Final Published Version
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Further Info |
| Posting on Personal Website
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on employer’s or institution’s website
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on non-commercial institutional or subject repository
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy. |
| Posting on non-commercial Scientific Social Network
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Yes – at any time | Yes – after 12 month embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on commercial Scientific Social Network | Yes – at any time
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No | No | See full conditions in Policy.
Examples of commercial SSNs are ResearchGate, Mendeley*, Academia.edu
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| *Posting in own private library on Mendeley
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Yes – no embargo | Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Posting on arXiv | Yes – at any time | Yes – after 12 month embargo
(NB. a few of our journals allow immediate posting) |
No | See full conditions in Policy (including which journals allow immediate posting).
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| Posting on bioRxiv | Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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| Use all or part of the article without modification in personal compilations of own works (provided not created by third party publisher)
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Yes | Yes | No | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Making copies for teaching purposes
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Include in a research thesis or dissertation (provided not published commercially)
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Yes – at any time | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Make oral presentation of article & include summary/highlights of it in papers distributed at presentations
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Include summary/highlights of article in conference proceedings
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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| Use original figures allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – 3 figures only may be used | Yes – 3 figures only may be used | Yes – 3 figures only may be used | See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section. |
| Use original text allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section |
Please refer to this table as a quick check guide for where & when you may post your article. The rights you are granted varies, depending on which version of the article you wish to use.
Though it is not necessary to use this file, using these Word templates for journal articles may help to speed the publication of accepted articles.
Check the peer review model for the journal you are submitting to when preparing the Word version of your manuscript. You can find out the peer review model for our journals on the “About the Journal” section of our journal homepages.
Double-anonymous
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Single-anonymous
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IOP Publishing supports the principles of transparency and openness in scientific research, with the reproducibility of research facilitated by the availability of data, code and research materials underpinning research articles.
Many research funders now require authors to make all data related to their research available in an online repository. Funder policies can be viewed at the Sherpa Juliet database.
All IOP Publishing journals have a policy on research data and this will be listed in the ‘about the journal’ section of their website. IOP Publishing journals and several journals published in partnership with other organisations will follow one of the following policies on research data:
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IOPscience allows inline presentation of multimedia files within journal articles, with videos, animations or sound files that are supplied by authors as part of the main article treated as figures. Multimedia figures are represented in the PDF by a static image with appropriate caption. In the HTML the same image and caption are displayed, readers can click/tap the image to play the multimedia file inline.
If a figure has more than one multimedia file, there must be a separate image for each file (e.g. parts a and b for a figure with two videos). This is necessary so that the files both display in the HTML.
Please note that multimedia files must not include any music.
To make multimedia files accessible to as many readers as possible, the caption accompanying the file must include a description of the key points demonstrated by the video/audio. If the time duration of a video is long enough, we encourage authors to add a voiceover describing the key points illustrated. If the video already has audio, try to record your description in spaces where the original audio is not crucial to the information in the file.
We strongly recommend video files be delivered in the MPEG-4 container, encoded with the H264 codec. Other formats may be provided, but using MPEG-4 will provide the most faithful rendering of your video in the HTML journal article.
Video files should be a maximum of 10 MB file size each. Exceptions can be made in cases where larger files are essential for the science being presented.
Recommended settings:
Authors may prepare interactive models to enhance the communication of their research. These models are treated as figures in the article. Each model is represented in the PDF by a static image with an appropriate caption. The HTML in IOPscience displays the figure and caption with a ‘Start interaction’ button which loads the interactive model within the flow of the article.
To make interactive figures accessible to as many readers as possible, the caption accompanying the figure must include a description of the key points demonstrated by the interactivity.
Example images:
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/818/2/115 figures 2 and 3
http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/819/2/113 figures 1 and 5
Interactive models should use the X3D standard. This is an open-source, XML-based format curated by the International Organisation for Standardization (ISO). By using the X3DOM javascript/CSS combination, X3D models can be incorporated directly into HTML without the need for browser plug-ins. This can be downloaded at https://www.x3dom.org.
We strongly recommend the use of X3D/X3DOM but stand-alone interactive figures produced using alternative packages (such as Plotly https://plot.ly/ or Bokeh http://bokeh.pydata.org/) are also accepted.
Authors interested in using this functionality need to create and supply the interactive model and an HTML file that presents the model, along with all .JS and .CSS files used.
Researchers should not generally publish or share identifiable individual data collected in the course of research without specific consent from the individual (or their representative).
Informed consent to publish should be obtained from participants (or their parent or legal guardian in the case of children under 16) for all research involving identifiable human subjects. This requirement also applies for deceased persons, in which case consent should be given by the next of kin. Authors are required to attest that consent has been obtained and that any identifiable individuals are aware of intended publication. Examples of identifying information are descriptions of individual case histories, photos, video, x-rays, or genetic pedigrees.
In order to protect participant anonymity, authors do not need to send proof of this consent to us at IOP Publishing. A statement confirming that consent was obtained for all identifiable individuals should appear in the manuscript.
Source: Barbour V on behalf of COPE Council, Journals’ Best Practices for Ensuring Consent for Publishing Medical Case Reports: guidance from COPE, December 2016 www.publicationethics.org
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Stephen McDonnell, University of Virginia, United States
Outstanding Reviewers
Dr Dario Bahamon, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, Brazil
Dr Kenneth Burch, University of Toronto, United States Minor Outlying Islands
Dr Cyrill Bussy, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Guoxin Cao, Peking University, China
Professor Dr Wei Chen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Dr Antonio Cricenti, CNR, Italy
Professor Dr Jun-Feng Dai, South University of Science and Technology of China, China
Dr Xiaxin Ding, Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States
Dr M V Durnev, Fiziko-tehniceskij institut imeni A F Ioffe, Russian Federation
Mr Simin Feng, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dr Mauro Ferreira, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Dr Guillaume Froehlicher, University of Basel, Switzerland
Dr Bruce Gnade, University of Texas at Dallas, United States
Professor Wei Han, Peking University, China
Professor Jean Heremans, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, United States
Professor Choongyu Hwang, Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of
Professor Efthimios Kaxiras, Harvard University, United States
Dr Chul-Ho Lee, Korea University, Korea (the Republic of)
Dr Jing Li, University of Tennessee, United States
Mr Zhong Lin, The Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dr Song Liu, Kansas State University College of Engineering, United States
Dr Rai Moriya, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Jinbo Pang, Leibniz-Institut fur Festkorper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden eV, Germany
Dr Enrico Rossi, College of William and Mary, United States
Mr Yuanxi Wang, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Dr Christopher Williams, University of Manchester, UK
Dr Zhong-Shuai Wu, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Professor Zhongqin Yang, Fudan University, China
Dr Yifei Yu, North Carolina State University, United States
Dr Wenjing Zhang, Shenzhen University, China
Professor Han Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Reviewer of the Year: Professor Ian Walker, Clemson University, United States
Outstanding Reviewers
Dr Hikaru Aono, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Dr Cristian Axenie, Technische Universität München, Germany
Dr Lily Chambers, Hochschule Rhein-Waal Standort Kamp-Lintfort, Germany
Dr G de Croon, Technische Universiteit Delft, Netherlands
Dr Kaushik Jayaram, Harvard University, United States
Dr Jeffery Karp, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Megan Leftwich, The George Washington University, United States
Dr Daniel Quinn, University of Virginia, United States
Dr Matthew Spenko, Illinois Institute of Technology, United States
Dr Doekele Stavenga, Groningen University, Netherlands
Dr Takuya Umedachi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Dr Barbara Widera, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dr Martin Ziegler, Christian Albrechts Universitaet zu Kiel, Germany
