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Once the article has been published, you are free to post the Final Published Version to arXiv.org or another repository. You should add a link, via DOI, to the Version of Record, along with the following wording: ‘This article is published under a CC BY licence. The Version of Record is available online at [insert DOI]‘. You should include a link to the CC BY licence.

Yes, both the Accepted Manuscript and the Final Published Version of articles published under a CC BY licence can be shared elsewhere online. This includes submitting either article version to arXiv.org, or another repository. When sharing an article that is subject to a CC BY licence, you must make sure you include attribution to the authors, the journal citation and notice of the CC BY licence. For full licence terms and attribution requirements, please refer to the CC BY licence on the Creative Commons website. When sharing the Accepted Manuscript version, the following wording should also be included:

‘This is the Accepted Manuscript version of an article accepted for publication in [NAME OF JOURNAL].  IOP Publishing Ltd is not responsible for any errors or omissions in this version of the manuscript or any version derived from it.  This Accepted Manuscript is published under a CC BY licence. The Version of Record is available online at [insert DOI].’

After acceptance, your article will be typeset into our house style (see our Style guide for journal articles) using the source files that you have provided. This includes conversion of figure files and sizing them to fit the journal template. A proof will then be produced, which you will be asked to check.

Most IOP Publishing journals offer the option to make the Accepted Manuscript version available within 24 hours of acceptance. At this point, you can start to promote your paper to your peers (see the ‘After publication’ section for more details). For further information on the ‘Accepted Manuscript’ process, and which of our journals offer this option, please see our Accepted Manuscripts page.

Please note that, in exceptional circumstances, we reserve the right to withdraw an article at any time before publishing.

1. Citation details of the Version of Record;
2. A link from the preprint to the Version of Record via DOI (digital object identifier); and
3. The wording as set out below: 

Our preprint policy applies to both subscription and gold open access articles. Under this policy, authors are permitted to share a Preprint of their article anywhere at any time, as long as copyright in the Preprint is not transferred, and as long as an exclusive licence is not granted to a third party. For more information, please see our preprint policy.

Our preprint policy applies to both subscription and gold open access articles. Under this policy, authors are permitted to share a Preprint of their article anywhere at any time, as long as copyright in the Preprint is not transferred, and as long as an exclusive licence is not granted to a third party. For more information, please see our preprint policy.

IOP grants back certain rights to authors to make limited use of an article published under the subscription model.

Authors have varying depositing rights for the Author’s Original/Preprint as set out expressly in the preprint pre-publication policy, copyright form you signed and also the author rights policy which applies to the particular journal in which the article was published.

Authors also have varying depositing rights for the Accepted Manuscript in non-commercial repositories and non-commercial scientific social networks. The rights you have as an author are those rights set out expressly in the copyright form you signed and also the author rights policy which applies to the particular journal in which the article was published.

Some of these rights only apply after the end of the applicable Embargo Period.

For specific information on your depositing rights as an author, as well as any reuse rights, ensure you check the copyright form you signed for the article and also the journal’s author rights policy. Please refer to our Author Rights Policy page.  If this does not answer the author rights query you have, please contact permissions@ioppublishing.org.

IOP Publishing (IOP) supports the posting of preprints of articles. Please refer to our preprint policy. The policy applies to all articles submitted to or published by IOP, whether on a subscription or on a gold open access basis.

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.