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APS and the Bibsam Consortium Open Access Agreement

The Bibsam Consortium (Bibsam) consists of Swedish universities, colleges, state research institutions and other authorities that have jointly signed licensing agreements. APS has undertaken an open access agreement with Bibsam to advance open science and research collaboration.

Read and Publish Agreement Terms and Conditions

Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Licensee: The Bibsam Consortium (Bibsam)
Hybrid Agreement Period: January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2026, inclusive of both dates
Gold Agreement Period: January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2026, inclusive of both dates
Member Institutions: Please review the list of participating institutions included in this agreement.
Read Access: Through this agreement, authorized users affiliated with one or more Bibsam Member Institutions may obtain electronic access to the following online, licensed materials, including Physical Review Journals and related publications and products:

• all peer-reviewed Physical Review Journals published by APS
• Physical Review Online Archive (PROLA)
• Physics Magazine

Open Access Publishing
Participating Journals - The costs of publishing on an open access basis in the following journals are centrally covered by this agreement. Gold journals are only covered by those institutions participating in the Bibsam Gold agreement listed here.

Hybrid journals

• Physical Review Letters (PRL)
• Physical Review A (PRA)
• Physical Review B (PRB)
• Physical Review C (PRC)
• Physical Review D (PRD)
• Physical Review E (PRE)
• Physical Review Applied (PRApplied)
• Physical Review Fluids (PRFluids)
• Physical Review Materials (PRMaterials)

Gold journals

• Physical Review X (PRX)
• PRX Energy
• PRX Life
• PRX Quantum
• Physical Review Research (PRResearch)
• Physical Review Physics Education Research (PRPER)

Non-Participating Journals - Authors affiliated with Bibsam Member Institutions may submit to and publish in the following non-participating journals, though a separate Article Publication Charge (APC) not covered by this agreement, may be required to publish on an open access basis:

• Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP)
• Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB) (Please note that this is a diamond open access publication with no fees to readers or authors.)

Author Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors are:

1. officially affiliated with one of Bibsam’s Member Institutions, and
2. identified as the corresponding author in the initial instance of submission of a manuscript to one of the participating Physical Review Journals.
   • The eligible author cannot be changed after initial submission, including when the manuscript is transferred to another APS journal and where the corresponding author is changed.

Article Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Articles:

1. are submitted by a confirmed Eligible Author,
2. list a Bibsam Member Institutions as the affiliation of the Eligible Author,
3. are accepted for publication by a Participating Journal during the Agreement Period, and
4. are of one of the article types acceptable under the policies of the Participating Journal, including but not limited to: Regular Articles, Letters, Rapid Communications, Reviews, Perspectives, and Short Papers.

Article Cap: There is no cap under this agreement, and eligible authors may publish unlimited articles.

Funds Transformed: The entirety of hybrid journals’ subscription and access fees may be transformed to support open access publishing.

SCOAP³
APS’s participation in SCOAP³ is fully considered and integrated into this agreement. Authors publishing their high-energy physics (HEP) research open access under SCOAP³ may continue to do so as usual. The purpose of this Read and Publish agreement is to provide centrally funded open access publishing services for authors publishing non-HEP research, and as such it complements APS’ participation in SCOAP³.

Please review the information about SCOAP³ and Physical Review Journals.

American Physical Society (APS) and The Bibsam Consortium Member Institutions

Under the terms of the transformative agreement between APS and Bibsam, articles submitted by authors affiliated with the following member institutions or participating institutions are eligible to be published open access:

Hybrid journals

• AlbaNova University (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Chalmers University of Technology (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden)
• Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden)
• Linnaeus University (Kalmar, Sweden)
• Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden)
• Luleå University of Technology (Luleå, Sweden)
• Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
• Malmö University (Malmö, Sweden)
• Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Örebro University (Örebro, Sweden)
• Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Swedish Defence Research Agency (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Umeå University (Umeå, Sweden)
• University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)

Gold journals

• AlbaNova University (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Linköping University (Linköping, Sweden)
• Linnaeus University (Kalmar, Sweden)
• Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden)
• Luleå University of Technology (Luleå, Sweden)
• Lund University (Lund, Sweden)
• Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
• Stockholm University (Stockholm, Sweden)
• University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)

More information
For further information or assistance, please contact help@aps.org. For more information about open access and Physical Review Journals, please review APS’s Institutional Open Access Agreements (IOAs).