05/08/2023
By Sara Marks

More publishers are collaborating with the University Library to help our authors. Our latest collaborator is IOP Publishing, a leading publisher for physics books and journals. IOP is the publishing arm of the Institute of Physics and a leader in academic publishing since 1874.

Through this collaboration, the library's subscription covers article processing charges for UML authors, which means that you may publish your articles Open Access for free in IOP journals. You don’t have to pay any additional fee to make sure the public can read and share your article. This doesn’t change your process for submitting, editing, and publishing articles. The rigor of the peer review process will not be different. This is our way of helping you get your article beyond the paywall and into the public.

The library has recently entered a similar agreement with Wiley, the leading multidisciplinary publisher.

Open access articles are free and digitally accessible to anyone who wishes to read them. They are often identified by the orange icon of an unlocked padlock. They go through the same rigorous peer review process as other scholarly articles. The difference is in how accessible these articles are to the public. They don’t get stored behind paywalls or require high fees to access. In 2022 the U.S. federal government expanded open access requirements. Almost all articles written about research funded with public funds will soon need to be published as open access. The University Library is taking the lead on campus to make this easier for our community.

To learn more about this new service, please contact Amanda Rust, the Library’s Associate Director for Research & Learning.