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:  Computer, Computing in Science & Engineering, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing,   IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications,   IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Internet Computing,  IEEE Micro, IEEE MultiMedia, IEEE Pervasive Computing, IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, IEEE Security & Privacy, IEEE Software, and IT Professional.