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Alternative author rights policies

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

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?

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.

STM Permissions Guidelines

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.

Does IOP Publishing support green open access?

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. 

Why does obtaining a waiver benefit me as the author?

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.