Open access information
- Physics in Medicine and Biology is a hybrid open access journal—this is a publishing model in which subscription-based journals give authors the choice to make individual articles available on an open access basis (on payment of an article publication charge).
- When an author chooses to make their article open access, their article is made free to read and reuse immediately upon publication under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.
- The article publication charge for open access publication in Physics in Medicine and Biology is £1960/$2700/€2250 (excluding VAT where applicable). Subscription-only articles are free to publish.
- Authors can request an article be made open access at any point in the publication process.
- Authors who do not select the gold open access option can post the accepted version of their manuscript to an institutional or subject repository after a 12 month embargo (with reuse restrictions). The accepted version of a paper refers to an author's original version of an article after any changes made during peer review but before any editing, typesetting, etc by the publisher.
- Authors can publish in this journal on a gold or green open access basis and be compliant with the NIH, OSTP and RCUK and the majority of mandates on open access.
- This journal is included in the Austrian open access pilot. This means that authors funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) should qualify to publish on an open access basis and have their article publication charge paid by the FWF. Find out more here.
- You can read more about IOP's open access policies on our open access policy page https://iopscience.iop.org/info/page/openaccess.
Referee reward programme
A new referee reward programme has been introduced which offers referees a 10% credit towards the cost of publishing on a gold open access basis when they review an article. Find out more.