The Penn Libraries has a 3-year agreement (2024-2026) with the Institute of Physics (IOP) for Penn authors to publish articles open access with no article processing fees (APCs). Charges other than the APC may still apply, and are not covered by this agreement. Please refer to individual journal submission guidelines.
- This agreement covers open access publication in designated IOP and Electrochemical Society (ECS) hybrid and gold journals. Please see our Author Services Guide for more information on the types of open access.
- IOP's Journal Finder - by selecting "University of Pennsylvania" as your institution, you will be able to see which titles are eligible under this agreement.
- Articles must have a Penn-affiliated responsible corresponding author to be able to publish them in IOP and ECS journals without paying an article processing fee (APC).
- During the submission process, the authors must correctly identify they are affiliated with Penn to ensure they are matched to our agreement.
- CHOP researchers cross-affiliated with Penn are eligible under our agreements but MUST select UPenn (and not CHOP) as their affiliation when submitting articles.
- Eligible article types include research papers, special issue articles, letters, and review articles.
- Accepted articles are published under an Open Access CC-BY 4.0 license.
- For more details on publishing open access and the author workflow please see IOP's Publishing Open Access page.
