Researchers from France

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with COUPERIN in France 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, C and D in the title list of eligible journals.

Please note
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub.

Eligible insitutions 
Avignon Université
Commissariat à l’Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives (CEA)*
CY Cergy Paris Université
École centrale de Lyon*
École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers*
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon*
Institut Laue-Langevin
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)*
Sorbonne Université*
Université Côte d’Azur*
Université Paris Cité
Université de Bordeaux*
Université de Montpellier*
Université de Picardie Jules Verne
Université de Rennes
Université de Strasbourg
Université de technologie de Troyes*
Université de Toulouse*
Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne

*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.