LibGuides: Research Publishing & Impact: American Institute of Physics

American Institute of Physics (AIP): OA Publishing Agreement

This 2025 capped agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish open access with no transactional article processing charges (APCs). The cap is set at 385 articles for 2025.

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.

Article eligibility

Articles accepted from 1/1/2025 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.

Article types

The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:

research articles
review articles
conference article
perspective

There are no exclusions.

Title list

Check the 2025 Otago OA Publishing Agreement Titles List (updated 3 March 2025) for your desired journal.

Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.

Other charges

AIP Publishing does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.

Author eligibility

As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:

Any author that is part of the faculty, student body, or research organization within the academic institutions who have a license with AIPP under the Read & Publish agreement.

Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement.

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:

institutional affiliation
email address

Responsible corresponding authors must use their @otago.ac.nz email address when submitting an article for publication.

Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement.

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:

CC BY

Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.

Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website.

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

How to submit your article for open access publishing

The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.

AIP Author Submission Steps (pdf) - Workflow for AIP article submission

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/

Contact details: AIP Publishing

Please email pcr@aip.org for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.