Researchers from institutions within China

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with the Chinese Academy of Sciences 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 author that submits the manuscript and is responsible for communicating with the journal during the submission, peer review and publication process.

What’s included?
• A limited number of articles accepted will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Once the article limit has been reached, a 10% discount on APCs is available to eligible authors that wish to publish open access. Just enter “CAS Author Discount” in the article charging tool on receipt of your invoice.
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A and B. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.

Eligible institutions
Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry
Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Institute of Electrical Engineering
Hefei Institutes of Physical Science
Institute of High Energy Physics
Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics
Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences
Institute of Mechanics
Institute of Metals Research
Institute of Microelectronics
Institute of Modern Physics
National Center for NanoScience and Technology
National Astronomical Observatories
Institute of Optics and Electronics
Institute of Physics
Institute of Process Engineering
Institute of Semiconductors
Shanghai Advanced Research Institute
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology
Shanghai Institute of Optics & Fine Mechanics
Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics
ShanghaiTech University
Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology
Suzhou Institute of Nano-tech and Nano-bionics
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry
Institute of Theoretical Physics
Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics