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Research Publishing & Impact: American Institute of Physics

American Institute of Physics (AIP): Read and Publish Agreement

This capped agreement includes 23 hybrid journal titles during 2023-2025, which allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs).

AIP Publishing connects global researchers to a living legacy of published science, to peers and institutions and societies across the globe, and to services, tools, and platforms that expand the impact and reach of their work. With journals on photonics, materials science, plasmas, fluids, mathematical physics, and instrumentation, AIP Publishing supports physical science researchers in every discipline. 

Included titles

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access in 23 titles with no transactional APCs. This includes high-impact titles with Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as Applied Physics LettersJournal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

View the 2023 Otago titles list.

Eligible articles

Article types

Open access publishing covered under this Read & Publish agreement includes the following article types:

  • Research articles
  • Review articles

Please note: there are several additional types of articles listed during submission process. The CAUL Consortia Manager will accept only the two types noted above.

Authors who wish to make excluded article types openly available may choose to:

  • Publish “closed access” and deposit the Author’s Accepted Manuscript in their institutional repository.
  • Pay an APC (if applicable) to publish the article open access.
Acceptance date

Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement (2023-2025) are eligible to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.

Number of included articles

There is a cap on the number of articles by eligible authors from participating institutions that can be published under the terms of this agreement. In 2023 the cap is 363 articles.

Other charges

There are no other transactional charges for authors.

Corresponding authors from institutions listed under 'Participating institutions' may publish research and review articles to open access on the publisher's platform once the article has been accepted by AIP Publishing and approved by the Consortium Manager, with no transactional APCs.

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under CC-BY.

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. Authors retain copyright.

How to submit your article for open access publishing

Create and log into your account on scitation.org. After logging in, follow the steps outlined in AIP Publishing’s Read & Publish Guide for Authors.

Author identification

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their institutional affiliation when selected from the picklist that is matched to the institutional Ringgold ID.

Authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication in order for the publication to be approved to be published open access with no transactional APCs.

Archiving in institutional repositories

Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
●    Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after acceptance. 
●    Learn more by visiting: https://publishing.aip.org/resources/researchers/rights-and-permissions/author-licenses/ 

Reading

The agreement provides unlimited access to all journals listed in the license under ‘Included titles’, including perpetual access for subscribed-to years.

Archiving in institutional repositories

Authors may deposit articles in institutional repositories.
●    Author accepted manuscripts may be made available via institutional repositories after acceptance. 
●    Learn more by visiting: https://publishing.aip.org/resources/researchers/rights-and-permissions/author-licenses/ 

Reporting

The publisher will supply CAUL Procurement Services with reports on publishing output with article-level information on a quarterly basis. CAUL will share publishing output data with participating institutions on a regular basis.