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ETH Zurich Open Access Agreement

APS and ETH Zurich have an Open Access Agreement to support authors publishing Open Access in fully open access Physical Review journals.

ETH Zurich Arrangement Terms and Conditions

Agreement Period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026, 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.

Participating Journals The costs of publishing on an open access basis in the following journals are centrally covered by the agreement:

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

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 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)
• Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (PRAB)

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

Author Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors are:

• officially affiliated with ETH Zurich,
• 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 ETH Zurich 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.

Please note that ETH Zurich may deny funding through this agreement if other APC funding is available, such as for Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) funded work. For more information on this policy please see the ETH Zurich funding guidelines.

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.

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).