IOP Publishing’s green open access policy

Green open access is the process of archiving a copy of an accepted manuscript* on an institutional or subject repository in parallel to publishing with IOP Publishing. IOP Publishing believes that gold open access is the most sustainable route to open access but provides green open access options to those authors wanting or needing to share their work in this way.  

IOP Publishing allows authors of articles published on a subscription basis to post an accepted manuscript as follows:  

 Subscription-based journals require the embargo period because immediate free availability of peer-reviewed articles in repositories removes the publisher’s means of covering its costs of operation. For full details on your rights as an author of a subscription-based article, including full details on how and when you can share the accepted manuscript, please refer to our Author Rights Policy (or the relevant partner specific policy, if you have published with one of our society partners).  

Authors publishing an article on a gold open access basis can post the accepted manuscript on a repository immediately if required.  

IOP Publishing will deposit gold open access articles in PubMed Central automatically when funded by one of the following research funding bodies:  

• National Institutes of Health;  

• Wellcome Trust; 

• Arthritis Research UK; 

• Bloodwise; 

• British Heart Foundation; 

• Cancer Research UK; 

• Parkinson’s UK.  

 Authors may be permitted to opt out of an institutional open access policy. Further information on obtaining a waiver from an institutional open access policy can be found here.  

 IOP Publishing supports the sharing of preprints. View our preprint policy.  

*The accepted manuscript is ‘the version of the article accepted for publication including all changes made as a result of the peer review process, and which may also include the addition to the article by IOP Publishing of a header, an article ID, a cover sheet and/or an ‘accepted manuscript’ watermark, but excluding any other editing, typesetting or other changes made by IOP Publishing and/or its licensors’.