Once your article has been accepted for publication, you will be asked to submit final files, complete an electronic copyright form, and pay the APC. Below you will find information on each of these steps along with an outline of the publication process.
Once accepted, authors will need to provide the following items for publication:
After you submit final files, you will automatically be directed to the Electronic Copyright Form.
Since IEEE Access is a fully open access journal, all articles will be published under either the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) or the Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, No Derivatives License (CCBY-NC-ND).
CC BY and CCBY-NC-ND allow authors to retain copyright of their article and permit a very broad range of reuse. Under CC BY, reuse for commercial purposes or to create derivative works is permitted, whereas under CCBY-NC-ND, reuse cannot be for commercial purposes or change the work in any way. Under the CC BY licenses, authors are responsible for protecting their content from possible abuses such as infringement and plagiarism.
Authors will be asked to select CC BY or CCBY-NC-ND prior to publication, so be sure to check your funder’s requirements, if applicable.
Once the copyright information is completed, within a few business days, authors will receive an email from Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) to settle the article processing charge (APC) by check, credit card, or wire transfer.
Corresponding authors who are IEEE members receive a 5% discount; IEEE members who are also IEEE Society members receive a 20% discount (the 5% IEEE member discount plus an additional 15% discount for Society membership). Please note that this discount does not apply to Student or Graduate Student Members.
Authors located in low-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) are eligible for discounts on article processing charges. Discounts are only applied if all authors are located in a country eligible for a discount. For more information, please visit the Author Center by clicking here. The IEEE APC waiver for low-income countries (as classified by the World Bank) is in place to assist authors from geographical locations whose economic situation creates a genuine hardship that would otherwise prohibit them from publishing. However, we expect that all sources of funding are considered; for example, if all co-authors are not from low-income countries, our expectation is that they will help cover the required APC. Please click here to learn more about why IEEE and other publishers charge APCs for open access.
Additionally, you may want to check with your institution’s library to see if they have established a deposit account with IEEE to pay APCs on your behalf. You could also reach out to your co-authors to ask them to contribute to the article processing charges.
Please note that discounts cannot be combined.
Once an author submits final files, the accepted version of the article will be published Early Access on IEEE Xplore within 2-3 days. Once the article is in Early Access, it is considered published and cannot be withdrawn.
The corresponding author will receive page proofs from the production team within 7-10 business days after submitting final files. The person designated as the corresponding author is responsible for making sure that all coauthors carefully review the page proofs and provide any necessary changes prior to providing approval. Once the proof is approved, the Early Access version of the article will be replaced by the final, approved version on IEEE Xplore. Once an article is published on IEEE Xplore, it cannot be edited or withdrawn.
Below is a list of items that will be edited on each accepted article prior to publication per IEEE style guidelines:
The article title will be shortened to fit the space of one column within the running head.
If an equation is too large to fit in a single column, rather than making the text smaller, the equation will be floated on the page, and the text will be edited to reflect that the equation is now at the bottom or top of page.
Biographies are reordered in the following manner:
IEEE/other publication Editorship, etc.
Titles of publications within the text will be formatted as follows:
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