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, in some circumstances. When an article is published 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. This route may not be compatible with some funder policies on immediate open access.
The gold open access route is available to authors wishing to make their accepted manuscript version or final version of record immediately open access.
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.
Generally, authors are able to obtain a waiver from their institution’s or university’s open access policy via a webpage on their institution’s or university’s website. Institutions allow for such waivers in their policies. There is often a short online form to fill in which will then generate a waiver for the article automatically.
If you are unable to find the relevant webpage, we suggest you search for ‘open access policy waiver’ on your institution’s or university’s website, or in a search engine including the name of your institution/university.
Below are useful links to a few of the US universities’ and institutions’ open access waiver policies and waiver request pages which we have found. This should not be treated as a comprehensive list, but if you are from one of these universities or institutions you may find it useful.
| Institution |
Waiver form |
| University of California (including UC Berkeley, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Merced, UC Office of the President, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UCSF, UC Santa Barbara, UC Santa Cruz, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab) |
http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/oap/generate |
| California Institute of Technology |
https://www.library.caltech.edu/open-access-policy-waiver-request-form |
| Georgia Institute of Technology |
http://openaccess.gatech.edu/get_started |
| Harvard University |
https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/authors/waiver/ |
| University of Hawaii |
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/scholcom/opt-out/contact.php (fill out the web form once signed in) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/mit-open-access/faq-on-the-oa-policy/ (see Opting out of the policy) |
| The Ohio State University |
https://library.osu.edu/document-registry/docs/359/stream (the Director or designate will waive application of the policy upon written request by a Faculty member) |
| Princeton University |
http://oawaiver.princeton.edu/ |
| Stanford University |
https://library.stanford.edu/blogs/stanford-libraries-blog/2020/11/stanfords-open-access-policy-has-been-approved (authors can request a waiver from the Office of Scholarly Communications) |
| The University of Rhode Island |
http://uri.libguides.com/oapolicy/waiver |
