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COSEC (Slovenian Institutions) Open Access Agreement

APS and COSEC have an Open Access Agreement to support Slovenian institutions and authors publishing Open Access in hybrid open access Physical Review journals. The institutions eligible for the agreement are listed below.

COSEC (Slovenian Institutions) Arrangement Terms and Conditions

Agreement Period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2029, inclusive of both dates.

Open Access Publishing Eligible articles published in participating titles under this arrangement will be published with a CC-BY license at no cost to authors.

Included Institutions: Please review the list of participating institutions included in this arrangement.

Included Institutions: Please review the list of participating institutions included in this arrangement.

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)

Non-Participating Journals

An open access article publication charge (APC) may be due in these journals. We recommend contacting your library who may have funding available to support open access fees.

• Physical Review X (PRX)
• PRX Energy
• PRX Life
• PRX Quantum
• Physical Review Research (PRResearch)
• Physical Review Physics Education Research (PRPER)
• Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB)

APS also publishes a subscription only reviews title: Reviews of Modern Physics (RMP)

Author Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors are:

• officially affiliated with one of the COSEC (Slovenian Institutions) listed below,
• and 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 are:

• submitted by an Eligible Author,
• list one of the participating institutions listed below as the affiliation of the Eligible Author,
• are accepted for publication by a Participating Journal during the Agreement Period,
• and 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.

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.

Included COSEC institutions

Articles submitted by corresponding authors affiliated with the following institutions are eligible to be published open access:

• Jožef Stefan Institute
• Jožef Stefan International Postgraduate School
• National Institute of Chemistry
• University of Ljubljana
• University of Maribor
• University of Nova Gorica

Read Access: All institutions taking part in the open access agreement will have access to the full APS package including all Physical Review journals and Reviews of Modern Physics.

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).