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What green open access options does IOP offer?

Our green open access policy grants authors the rights to: 

Immediately: 

  • include the Accepted Manuscript on the Named Authors’ own personal website(s); 
  • use the Accepted Manuscript in personal compilations of the Named Authors’ own works; 
  • make copies of the Final Published Version for teaching purposes; 
  • include the Final Published Version in a research thesis or dissertation, provided it is not then shared online; and 
  • reuse their original figures, tables, and text extracts (up to 400 words) in future published works. 

After a 12-month embargo period: 

  • share the Accepted Manuscript on any non-commercial institutional or subject repository. 

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. 

Our full author rights policy for subscription-based publications can be found here. 

Volunteering to be a journal reviewer

Would you like to peer review cutting edge science and contribute to the scholarly community?

If you already have experience of peer review, you can volunteer to review for our journals using this link.

Please note: All reviewers are carefully chosen by our editors, who balance experience levels, research interests, publication history, and volunteer status, among other factors. Volunteers are flagged in our system, but we cannot guarantee that you will be selected as a reviewer for one of our journals.

The quickest way to be invited to review a manuscript for IOP Publishing is to complete our free Peer Review Excellence online training course. The course takes 1–2 hours to complete and will provide you with the skills and confidence to be an excellent reviewer. You can read more about the Peer Review Excellence course here.

 

For more information about reviewing for IOP Publishing please visit our Publishing Support homepage for reviewers or see our Reviewer Guide.