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Yes, in fact we encourage the use of multimedia throughout our ebooks, so long as it enriches the content. These can range from embedded video clips interactive figures, and animations, to video abstracts, lectures, and author webinars. Multimedia is supported across all our digital publication formats (ePub3, PDF, HTML, and MOBI) where possible, and embedded within the book for an enhanced reader experience. Please see our Author Handbook for further details on how to prepare these files, or speak to one of our editors about your ideas for including multimedia content in your book.

If you did not create the multimedia content yourself or you have used previously published content, please ensure that you obtain permission from the copyright owner for IOP Publishing to publish the content. If you are using the multimedia content in ancillary materials, as well as the ebook, please ensure you obtain permission for both types of use.

Unfortunately, we cannot allow any music to be used in our ebooks.

Our dedicated and friendly team of commissioning editors, marketers, designers, and production editors will guide you through each step of the process, from submitting your initial proposal and draft, through to publishing and promoting your completed ebook. These web pages also hold large amounts of support materials that will help you manage your ebook submission with us. And if this isn’t enough, we also have a dedicated ebooks customer service team to manage any other enquiries you might have! Take a look at some of our most frequently asked questions.

 

Ebooks Author Rights Policy

This policy sets out how authors of an ebook may reuse parts of their ebook and where they may post parts of the ebook online following publication by IOP Publishing. Any other use of the ebook without IOP Publishing’s prior express permission is prohibited.

Can I reuse parts of my ebook elsewhere?

Following publication by IOP, authors may use original figures and portions of the text from their ebook:

• in articles submitted to learned or professional journals,
• in papers presented at conference proceedings,
• for the author’s professional purposes generally

provided full acknowledgement of the ebook and IOP’s status as publisher is given, the copyright line of the copyright owner as published in the ebook is given, as well as a link back via DOI to the abstract on the ebook’s homepage.

In addition to the general reuse mentioned above we also have a policy regarding hosting or depositing sections of the ebook online as set out below.

Authored books

In addition to a cover, blurb and the table of contents, authors may host a preface/foreword/introduction plus one additional chapter of their ebook on their Personal Website or to a non-commercial repository, such as arXiv, or to an institutional repository. The same chapter must be used in all instances. This includes multi-authored ebooks, where the authors should jointly agree on which additional chapter to share to ensure that the same additional chapter is used on each site they post to.

Full acknowledgement of the ebook and IOP’s status as publisher must be given, as well as the copyright line of the copyright owner as published in the ebook, and a link back via DOI to the abstract on the ebook’s home-page.

Edited books

Editors and contributors may host the cover, blurb, table of contents and the preface/foreword/introduction on their Personal Website or to a non-commercial repository, such as arXiv, or to an institutional repository. Editors and contributors may not post an additional chapter.

Full acknowledgement of the ebook and IOP’s status as publisher must be given, as well as the copyright line of the copyright owner as published in the ebook, and a link back via DOI to the abstract on the ebook’s homepage.

Contributors are not permitted to host their individual contribution on any website or repository.

Exceptions

There may be cases where portions of an ebook already existed on an author’s website or repository prior to contract. In such cases please discuss your intention to reuse the work with your editor.

Where the copyright is not held by IOP Publishing, you will need the permission of the copyright owner before you reuse or post the content elsewhere.

Collections

This policy applies to the following IOP ebooks collections:

• IOP Expanding Physics
• AAS-IOP Astronomy
• Physics World Discovery

Queries

Please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org

Queries on the IOP Concise Physics Collection

For queries on the policy applying to the IOP Concise Physics collection, please contact our partner Morgan & Claypool at info@morganclaypool.com

IOP Publishing is committed to making our ebooks content available through the discovery platforms researchers integrate with. We partner with the leading web discovery service providers to index full-text books and ebook chapters on IOPscience.

We are pleased to confirm that IOP ebooks content is indexed in the discovery platforms listed below, and because of this, you can be confident that your ebook will be discoverable through the most important library discovery channels for researchers.

• ‘Summon’—SerialsSolutions
• ‘Primo’—Ex Libris
• ‘ALMA’—Ex Libris
• ‘EDS’—EBSCO
• Worldcat—OCLC

To support compliance with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access policy, IOP Publishing will upload NIH-funded articles published on an open access basis to PubMed Central automatically. 

Please make sure to include details of your funder, including the grant number, when requested to do so during the submission process.. 

The corresponding author will receive an email from PubMed Central asking them to approve the deposited manuscript. 

Deposited articles will be made publicly available from the date of online publication in accordance with the NIH policy. 

Our policy on article sharing does not permit immediate public access via institutional or subject repositories, including PubMed Central, for articles published on a subscription basis. 

If the content you wish to reuse isn’t available on the Copyright Clearance Centre or PLSClear, you may need to email the copyright owner directly. The following template can be used in these cases. Please modify/add any other details as appropriate:

 

American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in the AAS journals, please see refer to the information on this page.

Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (PASP)

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in PASP, please see the PASP author rights page.

The Electrochemical Society (ECS)

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in the ECS journals, please see the ECS author rights page.

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) journals

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in the following SISSA journals, please refer to the copyright form of the article: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, Journal of Instrumentation and Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment.

Nuclear Fusion

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in Nuclear Fusion, please refer to the Copyright Form of the article.

Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) journals

For the author rights policy applying to articles published in the following JSAP journals, please refer to the JSAP Author Rights page for information: Applied Physics Express and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics

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Other partner journals

If the journal you are publishing in is not listed in this page, please contact the relevant partner: Partner owned journals: titles for which IOP does not handle permissions requests

For a simple guide showing which policy applies to which journal, please see the following Quick check guide: which author rights policy applies to each journal?

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Supplementary Data

IOP takes a non-exclusive licence in supplementary data which is published alongside articles on IOPscience. This means the copyright and any other ownership rights in supplementary data stays with the author, or any other relevant owner if not the authors (such as a university or research funder).

Unless otherwise stated, supplementary data is published under the same licence as the parent article. For Gold Open Access articles, this means you will be able to reuse supplementary data under the terms of the relevant open access licence applying to the article (in most cases, the CC BY 4.0 licence). For supplementary data of articles published on a subscription basis, you may need to seek the permission of the authors for your intended reuse.