Institute of Physics (IOP) - Transformative agreement

The workflow of open-access publication does not involve validation of the affiliation of the authors prior to publication, and is briefly organised in the following stages:

• The corresponding author will be identified on the editorial platform by means of at least one of the following parameters: name of the institution/affiliation or email domain (sns.it);
• for eligible articles, open-access publishing will be proposed to the corresponding author;
• in the case of a positive response from the corresponding author, the article will be published in open access and the author will keep the copyright;
• periodically the library will receive the lists of approved articles for the verification of the formal affiliation to the Scuola of the corresponding authors;
• should the Institution not recognise the author as qualifying under the terms of the contract, the corresponding author will be offered the possibility to pay the APC outside the contract or to publish the article in subscription mode;
• the retrospective conversion is possible of any eligible articles that missed selection by the publisher.

The validation of the corresponding author takes into account the date of acceptance of the article on the part of the publisher independently of the date of the first submission.