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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.

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, Focus Collection, 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
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) including Medical University of Innsbruck (Medizinische 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 please ensure you are familiar with the requirements of your specific funder/employer regarding public access to published research. Most federal funding agencies now require that the published articles resulting from research they have funded is made publicly accessible immediately. 

Our policy does not permit immediate public access / open access via institutional or subject repositories for articles published on a subscription basis. Authors wishing to share the accepted manuscript version of your article or the final version of record without any embargo will need to publish their work on a gold open access basis. 

IOP Publishing is a member of CHORUS (Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States). This means that if you publish your article on a gold open access basis in one of our journals then it will automatically be registered in your funder’s repository with a link through to the final version in the journal, enabling you to comply with the funder policy without additional effort.This automatic service will apply for work funded by the following agencies and institutions: 

• Department of Defense (DOD) 

• Department of Energy (DOE) 

• Department of the Interior (DOI) 

• 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 you publish your article on a subscription basis then the service will enable public access to the article after a 12 month embargo period.