As well as removing the administrative burden of dealing with invoices for article publication charges, authors can benefit from greater visibility and impact for their research. IOPP’s open access articles typically receive 81% higher downloads and 31% higher citations and 27% higher altmetric scores when compared with non-open access articles. [3 minute video]
If you (1) are the article’s corresponding author, and (2) a current staff member, researchers (permanent, temporary and/or visiting) or student at an institution within the agreement at the time of submission, your article is eligible for open publishing under this agreement.
IOPs system should automatically identify corresponding authors submitting from one of SCELCs participating institutions. If you submitted an article that should qualify but didn't receive an email confirming its eligibility, please contact oa@scelc.org.
IOPs Journal Finder checks if your chosen journal meets funder requirements, and if it is covered under the SCELC transformative agreement with IOP Publishing.
Yes. While the we recommend the open access option, and you can rest assured that there will be no additional per article charge to your Library, where and how you publish is your decision. The agreement with IOP does not mandate open access publishing, nor does it dictate your journal selection. Rather, it covers the costs of the open access publishing option for IOP journals. As with SCELCs other open access agreements, you can opt out.
Review the IOP Transformative Agreement video channel.