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Transformative Agreement in Publishing

Transformative agreements are contracts negotiated between institutions and publishers that transform the business model underlying scholarly publishing towards a fully open access model.

IOP Publishing Open Access (Read and Publish)

IOP Publishing Open Access (Read and Publish)

Benefits:
  • Article Processing Charge: Waived, when submitted to eligible journals
  • Easily comply with research funders with open access stipulations
  • The author retains copyright control of their work
  • The author may choose to publish open access

IOP (Institute of Physics) will retroactively, at the author’s request, flip papers to Open Access that were submitted during the term of this agreement.

  • Open Access articles will be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 Attribution license:

Ownership of copyright in the article and all other proprietary rights remain with the Corresponding Author. The Corresponding Author retains the rights to reproduce, distribute, and publicly display the article in any form or medium; to prepare derivative works from the article; and to authorize others to make any use of the article, provided that proper full attribution is given to the original IOP publication.

 
To be eligible, articles must:
  • Be submitted by a Corresponding Author who is a current staff member, faculty member (permanent, temporary and visiting), researcher (permanent, temporary and visiting), or student of The University Malaysia Perlis
  • Be original research. Types include: research papers, special issues, letters, and review articles
  • Have manuscript accepted for publication in a qualifying Open Access / Hybrid journal
  • Be accepted for publication from 6th September 2024 through 31st December 2026.

 
Eligible Journals:

Visit the Eligible Journals for Transformative Agreements webpage to review eligible publications from IOP Publishing. 

Journals excluded in transformative agreements (Sponsored Titles).

Title Online ISSN
Environmental Research: Energy 2753-3751
Environmental Research: Food Systems 2976-601X
Machine Learning: Engineering 3049-4761
Machine Learning: Earth 3049-4753
Machine Learning: Health 3049-477X
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing 2631-7990
Materials Futures 2752-5724

IOP's Journal Finder provides a filtered search to help you narrow to your desired subject area.

IOP Publishing has established agreements to enable authors from a variety of institutions to publish on an open access basis at no cost to themselves. Further details about these agreements can be found on our transformative agreement hub.

 
"Where Do I Begin?"

There is almost no change from the normal article submission method. You will answer a few prompts and IOP will do the rest of the work to ensure that your Open Access preferences are met and any eligible Article Processing Charges are waived.

Go to IOP's Guide to Submitting Under a Transformative Agreement for step-by-step guidance through this simple process.