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Researchers from institutions within BIBSAM consortium
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with BIBSAM in Sweden 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?
• Articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research papers, special issues, 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.
Discover the impact of the agreement so far through the papers published by eligible authors here.
Eligible Institutions
Chalmers Tekniska Högskola (contact: research.lib@chalmers.se)
Högskolan i Halmstad (contact: helpdesk.diva@hh.se)
Göteborgs Universitet (contact: esupport@ub.gu.se)
Högskolan I Borås (contact: biblioteket@hb.se)
Karlstads Universitet (contact: publiceringsstod@kau.se)
Kungl. Tekniska Högskolan (contact: publicering@kth.se)
Linköpings Universitet (contact: openaccess@bibl.liu.se)
Luleå Tekniska Universitet (contact: bib-epubl@ltu.se)
Lunds Universitet (contact: publicera@lub.lu.se)
Stockholms Universitet (contact: openaccess@su.se)
Umeå Universitet (contact: publicering.ub@umu.se)
Patent- Och Registreringsverket (contact: biblioteket@prv.se)
Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek (contact: e-resurser@ub.uu.se)
Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.
Researchers from Max Planck Institutes – Germany
IOP Publishing has a transformative agreement with the Max Planck Society 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 Max Planck Institutes 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 papers, special issues, letters and reviews.
- This agreement includes journals in List A, B, C and D. Click here for a 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, please contact the Max Planck Society at lic.contact@mpdl.mpg.de, or visit the Max Planck web page here – https://www.mpdl.mpg.de/en/463
Celebratory collection
Discover high impact papers published through the Max Planck agreement here.
Digital preservation policy
IOP Publishing produces high-value scientific information for the scholarly community and as all of our content is published online, we are acutely aware of the need to ensure permanent availability of, and access to, these resources. We therefore have an archiving policy in place through which we are committed to preserving our online content in archiving services.
All IOP Publishing online journals and ebooks are archived in CLOCKSS and Portico to ensure that these resources are preserved in the long term.
Contact your journal
This page has now moved and you can view our full list of journals here
Every journal is different, and while the method of submission might be very similar, there may be different requirements for each journal. This could include the types of articles the journal accepts and any limits on word length. You can find all the instructions for our journals in the table below, along with links to their submission site and email address.
General advice about getting published, including how to structure an article can be found at Author guidelines for IOP journals.
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Video transcript: The Journey of a Paper
- Authors write and submit their paper to an IOP journal through the journals online submission system.
- The editorial office checks the submission is in order and puts it through plagiarism checking software.
- An editor reads the paper to see if it fits the journal scope and is well written. If the article is not a good fit for the original journal an editor may offer the author a transfer to another IOP journal.
- If the paper is suitable the editor finds at least two reviewers with relevant subject expertise and reviewing experience.
- The reviewers assess the papers originality, significance and rigor. In their report to the editor they provide suggestions for improvement and recommend that the paper be either accepted, revised or rejected.
- The editor reads the reviewers reports and makes a decision. If the reviewers disagree the editor might seek advice from the editorial board.
- The reviewers reports, along with the editors decision, are sent to the author. They may ask the author to revise the paper.
- When the author returns the paper, the editor looks at the author’s response and any changes and decides again if it should be accepted, rejected or revised further.
- They may consult a reviewer before they make a final decision when the paper is accepted.
- The editorial office checks that the legal documents relating to copyright and permissions are in order and that the files are ready for the production team. An invoice is also sent to any authors that have chosen to publish gold open access.
- The production team converts the files into XML (the industry standard for digital content) and the accepted version is put online within 24 hours.
- The team formats the content to fit the style of the journal and may check for correct English language use.
- A final proof is sent to the author to check before publication and the production team makes any final corrections before publishing the final version on IOPScience.
How do I cite an Accepted Manuscript?
As the DOI remains constant, we recommend the inclusion of the DOI when citing the accepted manuscript. The exact syntax of the citation will differ between reference styles, but we suggest e.g.: Author, A, Author B, and Author C 2016 New J. Phys. https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa0000
Will the Accepted Manuscript be indexed?
The DOI and metadata will be registered with Crossref and indexed by Google for discoverability. Relevant papers will also be indexed in PubMed. PubMed will class these articles as ‘ahead of print’ and will update their status once the final version of record is published.
Currently Web Of Science, SCOPUS and other services do not support accepted manuscripts, but if they decide to do this we will do the necessary work to allow them to index the relevant metadata.
Will the Accepted Manuscript have a DOI?
Yes, and we will also show some basic metadata that will include the date the manuscript became available online, author names, and affiliations where available.
When the version of record is available this will be published with the same DOI to ensure there is a consistent reference for citing the work.
Which journals publish Accepted Manuscripts?
The following journals all publish Accepted Manuscripts:
- 2D Materials
- Applied Physics Express
- Biofabrication
- Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
- Biomedical Materials
- Biomedical Physics & Engineering Express
- Chinese Physics B
- Chinese Physics C
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
- Electronic Structure
- Engineering Research Express
- Environmental Research Communications
- Environmental Research Letters
- European Journal of Physics
- Flexible & Printed Electronics
- Fluid Dynamics Research
- Functional Composites and Structures
- International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing
- Inverse Problems
- IOP SciNotes
- Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
- Journal of Breath Research
- Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering
- Journal of Neural Engineering
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
- Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
- Journal of Physics Communication
- Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics
- Journal of Physics: Complexity
- Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
- Journal of Physics: Energy
- Journal of Physics: Materials
- Journal of Physics: Photonics
- Journal of Optics
- Journal of Radiological Protection
- Journal of The Electrochemical Society
- Machine Learning: Science and Technology
- Materials for Quantum Technology
- Materials Research Express
- Measurement Science and Technology
- Methods and Applications in Fluorescence
- Metrologia
- Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering
- Multifunctional Materials
- Nanotechnology
- Nano Express
- Nano Futures
- New Journal of Physics
- Nuclear Fusion
- Physica Scripta
- Physical Biology
- Physics in Medicine & Biology
- Physiological Measurement
- Plasma Research Express
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Plasma Science and Technology
- 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