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Open Access

Learn about Open Access and how to make your scholarship freely available.

About the Agreement

The Lehigh University Libraries have entered into an Open Access (OA) agreement with IOP Publishing for the years 2024, 2025, and 2026. This is a “read and publish” agreement that restores subscription access to all IOP journals. Lehigh University-affiliated corresponding authors can also publish their accepted articles OA in IOP and Electrochemical Society (ECS) journals at no cost to the researcher. This covers both Gold OA (all articles are OA) and hybrid (some articles are OA, some are subscription-access) journals. 

Eligible article types include letters, papers, reviews and special issue articles. IOP conference proceedings and select journals from society partners are not covered under the agreement. Use the IOP Journal Finder tool, linked below, to confirm coverage. Be sure to select Lehigh University as the institution when using the journal finder tool.

Instructions for Authors

At a high level, please be sure to take these initial steps to ensure eligibility of your article under this agreement:

  • Confirm that the journal you plan to submit to is part of this agreement using the IOP Journal Finder, linked below.
  • Ensure you are listed as the corresponding author for the article submission.
  • Ensure that your author account lists Lehigh University as your affiliated institution.

Detailed instructions regarding the author submission, publishing option selection, and copyright form completion processes are available at the IOP OA Publishing Author Guide website, linked below.

Please contact Phil Hewitt at pjh315@lehigh.edu and/or ta@ioppublishing.org with any questions.

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