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Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:43:44 -0400

{Please excuse cross-posting}

I am pleased to announce that IOP Publishing has made a significant
change to our copyright arrangements for research published on an open
access basis in IOP-owned journals plus New Journal of Physics, and
for bibliographic metadata.

We have adopted a more liberal Creative Commons license (CC-BY 3.0)
for future articles published on a gold open access basis.  This
license allows others to distribute, re-mix, amend, and build upon a
piece of work as long as they credit the original creation. The
licenses grant rights to the users of the content but do not replace
the copyright, which remains with the copyright holder.

The change applies to articles being published on an open access basis
in all IOP-owned hybrid journals and the gold open access titles
Environmental Research Letters and New Journal of Physics (a partner
journal with Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft) .

In addition to the change in license for open access articles, the
basic metadata of the articles in IOP's own journals will also be
available for use under a CC-BY license.  This is intended to increase
the visibility of such data and to help clarify to third parties what
they can and cannot do with metadata.

Most articles submitted before October 25, 2012 will be published
under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0
license. Articles submitted on or after this date will automatically
be published under a CC-BY license. IOP's copyright statements on
iopscience.iop.org have been updated to reflect this change.

Thank you, as always, for your support.

With regards,

Sharice

Sharice P. Collins
Vice President, Marketing
IOP Publishing, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA  19106
ioppublishing.org