IEEE is committed to working with institutions and funders to provide sustainable open access publishing opportunities to authors that allow for a wider dissemination of knowledge and enables authors to maximize exposure of their research. IEEE works with funders to enable authors to comply with open access policies when publishing in IEEE journals.
We comply fully with the open access requirements of the funders listed below.
Where required by their funder, authors may retain the right to distribute their accepted manuscript (AM) via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g., Europe PubMed Central) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, to be made available for release no later than the date of first online publication.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- See the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation open access policy page for more information or email openaccess@gatesfoundation.org.
- IEEE enables authors to process OA invoices through CCC RLSC for eligible articles funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
FWF
- Read the full details of the IEEE open access agreement for Austrian authors here: open.ieee.org/partners/austrian-science-fund/
NIH
- See the NIH Public Access Policy here: https://publicaccess.nih.gov/policy.htm
- IEEE’s position on NIH policy can be viewed here: https://www.ieee.org/publications/rights/ieee-position-on-nih-policy.html
NIHR
- See the NIHR Open Access Policy here: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/documents/nihr-open-access-policy/28999
UKRI
As required by UKRI, authors may retain the right to distribute their accepted manuscript (AM) via an institutional and/or subject repository (e.g., Europe PubMed Central) under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license, to be made available for release no later than the date of first online publication.
By following either of the UKRI Policy’s Route 1 or Route 2 options, authors funded by UKRI will be fully compliant while continuing to publish in the IEEE publication of their choice:
Wellcome Trust
- Learn more about Wellcome Trust’s open access policy and view information for authors here: https://wellcome.org/grant-funding/guidance/open-access-guidance/open-access-policy