Choose a Publishing Agreement

Before your accepted article is published by IEEE, you will be asked to complete a publishing agreement.

IEEE offers two agreement options to fit your needs.

• The IEEE Copyright Form transfers the author’s copyright to IEEE.
• The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY)  and the Creative Commons Attribution, NonCommercial, No Derivatives License (CCBY-NC-ND) allow authors to retain copyright. The article is available via universal free online access.

Note: The CC BY  and CCBY-NC-ND are only available when publishing open access. The following magazines offer open access at this time: IEEE Annals of the HIstory of Computing, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, IEEE BITS the Information Theory Magazine, Computer, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Computing in Science & Engineering, IEEE Industry Applications Magazine, IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine, IEEE Internet Computing, IEEE Micro, IEEE Multimedia, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Software, IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, IT Professional.