IOP Publishing has entered into a conversion agreement with the Center for the Promotion of Physics Research of the National Academy of Sciences to transform the business model of academic publishing into a fully open access model. Starting in 2024, the 20 members of the PRPC Consortium will be able to enjoy the following benefits

IOP Publishing has entered into a conversion agreement with the Center for the Promotion of Physics Research of the National Academy of Sciences to transform the business model of academic publishing into a fully open access model. Starting in 2024, the 20 members of the PRPC Consortium will be able to enjoy the following benefits

Who can benefit

Current staff, researchers, or students who participate in the PRPC&IOP Alliance membership can publish papers in a Gold open access mode without paying the Article publication charge.

*Very few journals have a publication fee or color image fee, which is still to be paid by the corresponding author.

Journals that comply with the conversion agreement

For journals that are eligible for the conversion agreement, such as ListA~ListD listed on the website, click here to view the full list of journal titles

Membership benefits upgraded

1. Upgrade access rights: All members will be upgraded to all journal access rights (including ECS titles) of IOPScience extra.

2. Upgrade to perpetual access: All members are upgraded to the perpetual access to all IOPScience extra journals for the current year.

3. Expand the scope of services: In addition to the journal subsidy, expand the service of submitting OA articles, and there is no upper limit on the number of articles

4. Enhance research visibility: Make research more visible and increase international academic influence

5. Reduced reputational damage: Researchers don’t have to worry about missubmitting to predatory journals

6. Save overall costs: For institutions or individual researchers, there is no heavy financial pressure to publish OA articles

List of members

National Yangming Chiao Tung University,National Cheng Kung UniversityNational Tsing Hua UniversityNational Sun Yat-sen UniversityAcademia SinicaNational Central UniversityNational Taiwan University of Science and TechnologyNational Chung Hsing UniversityChung Yuan UniversityNational Taiwan Normal UniversityNational Donghua UniversityNational Chung Cheng UniversityNational Taiwan Ocean UniversityTamkang UniversityNational Changhua Normal UniversityTunghai UniversityNational Taiwan UniversitySoochow UniversityNational Chengchi UniversityNational Synchrotron Radiation Research Center

Contact Window

Business undertaker: Ma Shengzong; stma@mx.nthu.edu.tw; +886-3-5742520

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