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It is important to understand which version of an article you are reading and what rights you have when you publish with IOP. Is it the un-edited manuscript, the peer-reviewed manuscript, the final version or one that has been corrected post-publication? The following are our current definitions of the different versions of an article and apply to both subscription and gold open access articles.

All gold open access articles published by IOP from circa 2013 onwards are, unless stated otherwise, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) licence. This means that the article will be freely available for anyone to view and full reuse by third parties is permitted for any purpose.

Most gold open access articles published by IOP prior to 2013 are, unless stated otherwise, published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. This means that the article will be freely available for anyone to view and reuse for non-commercial purposes, provided that they distribute the content under the same licence.

The article will be made available under a specific Creative Commons licence. This means that the article is free to view and certain rights are granted to authors and third parties under the specific Creative Commons licence. An article publication charge (APC) applies for publication on this basis.

IOP Publishing has a publishing agreement to enable researchers in high energy physics and instrumentation to publish on an open access basis without having to pay the article publication charge (APC) themselves.

CERN-affiliated authors and experimental collaborations

CERN and IOP Publishing have an agreement that covers open access publishing in the majority of IOP journals at no cost to authors, including Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics and. For more information please see the CERN dedicated support page.

SCOAP³

SCOAP³ is a consortium of libraries, funders and research institutions that aims to support open access publishing in high energy physics. Chinese Physics C is one of the journals in the SCOAP³ project.

SCOAP³ will pay the APCs for qualifying articles published in participating journals.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with Austrian Academic Consortium (Kooperation E-Medien Österreich, KEMÖ) 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 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 paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B and D. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Please note
Funding is subject to librarian funding approval at acceptance stage. If for any reason funding is declined, the author(s) will have the opportunity to revert to subscription publication type at zero cost to themselves or the member institution.

You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful.

Discover high impact papers published through this agreement in our celebratory collection.

Eligible institutions
Austrian Academy of Sciences (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT)
Graz Technical University (Technische Universität Graz)
Innsbruck University (Universität Innsbruck)
Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST)
Joanneum Research
Johannes Kepler University of Linz (Johannes-Kepler-Universität (JKU) Linz)
Medical University Vienna (Medizinische Universität Wien)
Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg)
University of Graz (Universität Graz)
Vienna Technical University (Technische Universität Wien)
Vienna University (Universität Wien)
Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences (Fachhochschule Vorarlberg)

The corresponding (submitting) author must be affiliated to one of the above, and enter this during manuscript submission.

If you are an author and have any queries that you would like to send to us directly, please contact our open access team.

Is your institution not listed here? Recommend open access funding to your library.

Please note: The UK offset agreement ends on 31 December 2019. It is superseded by our new open access arrangement for articles accepted for publication after 1 Jan 2020.

Click here for further details.

IOP Publishing (IOP) has reached agreement with a number of UK universities to allow university libraries to manage the cost of article publication charges (APCs) for open access publishing alongside their annual journal subscription costs.

You should contact your university’s open access team to establish whether your APCs will be covered by their centralized funds. This is because each participating university has its own policy in relation to the funding of APCs and has different funding mechanisms in place. Relevant contacts for each participating institution are listed below.

If the open access team confirms that the APCs will be funded centrally, you should select the ‘open access publication’ option when submitting your manuscript.

All articles submitted through the scheme will still go through IOP’s rigorous editorial and peer-review process and receive the same service as all other articles submitted to IOP journals.

If your article is accepted for publication, IOP will send you an invoice, which you should pay or arrange to be paid as directed by your library. For corresponding authors at UCL, IOP will invoice the library directly. In the subsequent year, IOP will provide participating universities with a rebate for the bulk of their expenditure on APCs in subscription journals to be offset against journal licence fees. The agreement directly links what an institution pays for open access publication in IOP’s subscription journals to what it pays for its subscriptions to IOP journals.

As the proportion of open access articles in IOP’s journals grows, all other library customers will also see a reduction in their subscription and licence charges.

All IOP and selected partner subscription titles that offer a hybrid open access option are included in the agreement.

APCs paid on fully open access journals will not be offset as these journals do not have a subscription charge.

If you are an author and have any queries that you would like to send to us directly, please contact the open access team.

If you are in receipt of a grant from, or in the employ of, a federally funded organization such as the Department of Energy, please ensure you are familiar with the requirements of your specific funder/employer regarding public access to published research.

IOP Publishing is a member of CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States).

CHORUS is a collaborative membership organization working directly with funders and publishers to deliver public access to published articles on federally funded research.

Our membership of CHORUS means that we are implementing new processes to help reduce the administrative burden on researchers in complying with different funder policies.

The agencies listed below have agreements in place with CHORUS:

• Department of Defense (DOD)
• Department of Energy (DOE)
• Department of the Interior (DOI)
• Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
• National Science Foundation (NSF)
• Office of the Department of National Intelligence (ODNI)
• Smithsonian Institution (SI)
• US Agency for International Development (USAID)
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• US Department of Agriculture (USDA)

If your article makes use of any previously published material (including figures/diagrams, or short extracts, or content taken from websites) then you must first obtain the written permission of the copyright owner. The copyright owner is usually the publisher (for material taken from journal or proceedings articles), website owner/company (for material taken from websites) or the author or their employer (if the work is unpublished). Some publishers will also require that you seek the permission of the original author (you will need to check the terms of the publisher’s permission).

We do not obtain permissions on your behalf. It is your responsibility as the author of the article to ensure that all required permissions have been obtained in writing and any permission fee paid in full (if the copyright owner charges a fee for reuse).

IOP is a signatory to the STM Permissions Guidelines. This benefits you because if you are reusing content from another STM signatory publisher, you are usually allowed to use up to three figures in another article published by an STM signatory publisher free of charge (provided you are not adapting/changing the figure). If the STM signatory publisher has ticked the second column ‘Notification required’ in the list of signatory publishers then you must still obtain permission but you should receive the permission for free. For more information, please see the STM Permissions Guidelines page.

Please refer to this page for a useful guide on how to obtain permission.

The article will be protected by copyright and is generally only available to subscribers of the journal. There is generally no fee for publication on this basis, although some of our journals charge article page charges.