Institute of Physics (IOP) – OA publishing contigent

For 2023

JLU participates in the national consortium for the IOP journals (contract period: 2022-2024). JLU Corresponding Authors have the opportunity to publish Open Access articles free of charge in more than 70 journals*. All articles of the type primary research article are covered (incl. research papers, special issue articles, letters and review articles).

A list of the Gold Open Access journals covered by the contract can be found here.


A list of hybrid journals covered by the contract can be found here.

IOP identifies JLU Corresponding Authors articles based on their stated institutional affiliation.
JLU Corresponding Authors are informed during the peer review process about the possibility to publish in Open Access without additional costs.

*Note: For the journals Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Nuclear Fusion and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific there is an additional cost in the form of page charges.