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IOP Publishing License Agreement

Royal Danish Library has, on behalf of the Danish universities and other higher education and research institutions, signed a new four-year agreement with IOP Publishing for the period 2026-2029.

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The agreement provides full reading access to IOP Publishing journals and ensures immediate Open Access (OA) worldwide for articles published by researchers at participating institutions.

Main points of the agreement

  • Full reading access to approximately 130 IOP Publishing journals.
  • Researchers (corresponding authors) at participating institutions can publish their articles with immediate Open Access to the publisher’s version under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY is recommended) in approximately 80 journals, without paying APCs.
  • The agreement covers OA publishing in both hybrid and golden OA journals.
  • There is no limit (cap) in the number of articles covered by this agreement. 

Agreement documents

We can provide a copy of the national IOP Publishing agreement, which is available in English only.

For reasons of confidentiality and GDPR, the document may be redacted.

Order the agreement paper.

What should I do as a researcher?

If you are both a researcher at an institution covered by the agreement and the corresponding author of the publication you will be given the choice to publish your article OA without paying APCs in case other conditions for eligibility are met. 

See the list of institutions covered by the agreement.

Read the author guide on the IOP Publishing website

The journal list

On IOP Publishing's website you will find the list of journals in which free Open Access can be published as part of the IOP Publishing agreement .