Non-profit scientific publisher Institute of Physics (IOP) Publishing, UK, is introducing an open access publishing option on 23 subscription-based journals, effective immediately. This 'hybrid open access model' is being introduced to support authors who wish to publish on an open access basis, or who are mandated by their funding bodies, to do so in IOP's traditional subscription-based journals as well as its seven pure open access journals.
Authors can pay an article publication charge of £1700, €1950 or $2700 to make their work open for everyone in perpetuity. The price will cover all costs associated with publishing. The option will be available on all article types with all submissions subject to IOP's normal rigorous peer-review process.
IOP Publishing will take revenues from article publication charges fully into account when setting prices for its subscription journals, to ensure that publication costs are not paid for twice, through both subscription and publication charges. Open access articles will be published under a creative commons licence.
IOP Publishing will also continue to support green open access by allowing authors to post the accepted manuscript of an article into an institutional or subject repository after an embargo period of 12-24 months, depending on the individual journal.
The 23 IOP wholly-owned titles which will now offer the hybrid open-access option includes all the Journal of Physics series, Classical and Quantum Gravity and Nanotechnology. IOP is currently in discussion with its publishing partners on the suitability of introducing the hybrid option on co-published journals.
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