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IOP is a signatory to the STM Permissions Guidelines. The STM Permissions Guidelines are an agreement between STM Signatory Publishers allowing reuse of small numbers of figures and small amounts of text of one signatory publisher in a journal article or ebook, published by another STM Signatory Publisher, free of charge.

For more information on how the Guidelines apply and why this is useful for authors wishing to use figures or small amounts of text from other STM Signatory Publishers, please refer to this further information.

If you are unclear as to what you need to do, or have any other questions please contact the relevant journal email address at IOP Publishing for assistance.

Yes.  When we publish on a subscription basis, we grant back certain rights to authors.  This generally allows authors to post the Accepted Manuscript of the article to an institutional repository or subject-based repository after a 12 month embargo period.

For more information on rights granted to authors, please refer to our Author Rights Policy.

Obtaining a waiver from your university’s or institution’s open access policy allows IOP Publishing to publish the article on a subscription basis, which is free of charge for the author and does not incur an Article Publication Charge.  It also allows IOP Publishing to support green open access as part of a clear and comprehensive policy.

Each waiver will vary slightly by institution/university.

As far as we are aware, universities/institutions usually grant waivers free of charge. If you have any queries on this, you will need to check with your particular university or institution.