Quick check guide: which version of my article may I post and when?
As a Named Author of an article published with IOP Publishing on a subscription basis, you are granted back certain reuse & depositing rights under the copyright form and author rights policy.
This table is intended as a quick reference guide for our author rights policy (subscription articles). You must read the full author rights policy (subscription articles) to ensure you are adhering to the full terms and conditions of the policy, before posting online or reusing any content you published with IOP Publishing.
This Author Rights Policy only applies to some of our journals (those listed at the end of the Policy).
All other journals published by IOP Publishing have different author rights policies, please check our Author Rights Policies page for information. If this does not cover the journal you published your article in, please see this page which sets out our partners who have different policies which they handle themselves.
As an author of an article published on a subscription basis, which version of my article may I post and when? See quick check guide below.
Author Rights | Preprint | Accepted Manuscript | Final Published Version
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Further Info |
Posting on Personal Website
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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Posting on employer’s or institution’s website
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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Posting on non-commercial institutional or subject repository
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Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
See exceptions for HEFCE post-2014 REFpolicy requirements in policy
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Posting on non-commercial Scientific Social Network
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Yes – at any time | Yes – after 12 month embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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Posting on commercial Scientific Social Network | Yes – at any time
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No | No | See full conditions in Policy.
Examples of commercial SSNs are ResearchGate, Mendeley*, Academia.edu
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*Posting in own private library on Mendeley
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Yes – no embargo | Yes – no embargo | No | See full conditions in Policy.
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Posting on arXiv | Yes – at any time | Yes – after 12 month embargo
(NB. a few of our journals allow immediate posting) |
No | See full conditions in Policy (including which journals allow immediate posting).
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Posting on bioRxiv | Yes – at any time
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Yes – after 12 month embargo
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No | See full conditions in Policy.
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Use all or part of the article without modification in personal compilations of own works (provided not created by third party publisher)
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Yes | Yes | No | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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Making copies for teaching purposes
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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Include in a research thesis or dissertation (provided not published commercially)
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Yes – at any time | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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Make oral presentation of article & include summary/highlights of it in papers distributed at presentations
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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Include summary/highlights of article in conference proceedings
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Yes | Yes | Yes | See full conditions in article copyright form.
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Use original figures allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – 3 figures only may be used | Yes – 3 figures only may be used | Yes – 3 figures only may be used | See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section. |
Use original text allowed under the quota of the STM Permissions Guidelines if publishing an article with another STM signatory publisher
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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Yes – short text extracts
(single text extracts of less than 400 words may be used (with a maximum of 800 words from a journal issue))
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See full conditions in article copyright form & in STM Permissions Guidelines section |