Researchers from Japan
IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with three institutions in Japan 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. Click here for a full title list of eligible journals.
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.
Eligible instiutions
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology*
Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories*
Waseda University*
You may find our author guide for submitting under a transformative agreement helpful located in our Transformative Agreement hub. For more information, please contact your relevant library contact at your university.
*there is a limited number of articles per calendar year