Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing

Corresponding authors at Purdue University–West Lafayette can publish Open Access research articles without paying an article processing charge.

Letters, papers, reviews, and special issue articles are all eligible.

To have their articles published at no cost to themselves under the terms of this agreement, responsible corresponding authors must identify themselves as BTAA institutional affiliates and use their institutional email addresses as part of the IOP publishing workflow. More information is available in IOP Publishing’s Guide for Submitting under a Transformative Agreement.

A small number of journals attach additional charges including, but not limited to, page charges. These remain the responsibility of the authors.

The agreement with IOP allows for original research and review articles to be published as open access in all journals that participate in IOP’s transformative agreements, including most of its fully open access and hybrid open access journals. Our agreement includes Lists A, B, C, and D.

Yes, there are a small number of journals published by IOP that are not covered by this agreement because they do not participate in IOP’s OA publishing agreements. These include the American Astronomical Society (AAS) journals, some society titles that do not allow open access publishing, fully OA journals that do not charge OA fees, and translated and conference titles.

When you submit your article to IOP for publication, you will need to use your Purdue email address and indicate your Purdue – West Lafayette affiliation as part of the IOP publishing workflow. IOP’s workflow enables automatic identification of eligible articles based on the responsible corresponding author’s given affiliation. Authors are contacted during the article review process and informed that, if accepted, their article will be published on an open access basis under the terms of this agreement, with the option to opt out. When an article is accepted by a journal, the responsible corresponding author will sign an OA author publishing agreement and select a Creative Commons license that determines how readers can use the article.

If you selected the Open Access (Permission Release) option, you will be asked to select your preferred Creative Commons License. While the default CC license, CC-BY (Attribution), allows you to retain all rights to your work and grants re-use rights to others, you can choose to add additional restrictions to the license. You can allow remixing, prohibit commercial use (CC-BY-NC), require Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA), or combine any of these 3 options.

Any CC license supports open access. The choice of which CC license to use is entirely up to you. Fewer restrictions allow your work the widest possible discovery and re-use.

Nina Collins, Scholarly Publishing Librarian