IOP Publishing (IOP), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Institute of Physics, and the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan) have announced that Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM) has adopted the Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0) for all articles published in the journal.
This license gives users the right to reuse, repurpose and build upon a piece of work, even commercially, as long as they credit the original creation. The license does not replace the copyright, which remains with the copyright holder.
The change is effective immediately for all new articles submitted to the journal.
STAM is already one of the highest ranked gold open access journals in materials science and is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2014. In 2008, NIMS took over the management of its peer review and financial systems, and IOP Publishing began co-publishing and hosting the journal. This partnership led to a continuous rise of the impact factor from 1.267 in 2008 to 3.752 in 2012.
STAM has also recently announced a new collaboration with the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa, Switzerland) for the editorial management of the journal and the opening of a new editorial office in Switzerland, which will act as the journal's editorial hub in Europe.
