UM Open Access Publishing with Transformative Agreements

IOP Publishing (IOP) has a transformative agreement with University of Macau to enable a transition to open access publishing.

Who can be benefit?

All corresponding authors that are current staff members, researchers (permanent, temporary and visiting), or students at one of the institutions below at the point of submission, can publish open access at no cost to themselves. The corresponding author is the author that submits the manuscript and is responsible for communicating with the journal during the submission, peer review and publication process.

What’s included?

• Articles accepted from 1st January 2024 will be eligible for transformative agreement funding to enable authors to publish open access with no cost to themselves
• Research paper, special issue, letter and review article types
• Included journals are those in lists A, B, C and D in the title list of eligible journals

OA Publishing Quota for 2024: Unlimited Quota

When you are reay to start your submission  on a IOPScience Journal, follow steps 1 to 4 on ScholarOne (IOPScience submission system).

##Note: a small number of eligible journals do not use the ScholarOne submission system.

At step 4 you’ll be asked to enter author information. Use the auto fill when enetering University of Macau.

At step 5 you have an option to indicate your preferred and non-preferred reviewers.

At step 6 you can declare any funding you received to do your research. 

IOP will automatically check whether the corresonding author is eligible for the APC waiver based on the email domain and affiliation.

The following is a list of IOP Journals eligible for Open Access publication under IOP Publishing Transformative Agreement:

• IOP Jounals eligible for Open Access Publication