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KEMO (Austrian Institutions) Open Access Agreement

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

KEMO (Austrian Institutions) Arrangement Terms and Conditions

Agreement Period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2027, 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.

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

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) (Please note that this is a diamond open access publication with no fees to readers or authors.)

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

Author Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors are:

• officially affiliated with one of the participating 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 KEMO institutions

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

• Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Erich Schmid Institute of Materials Science
  • Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck
  • Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna
  • Institute of High Energy Physics
  • Stefan Meyer Institute for Subatomic Physics
  • Space Research Institute
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• Johannes Kepler University of Linz
• University of Leoben
• Vienna University of Technology
• Graz University of Technology
• University of Innsbruck
• University of Graz
• University of Vienna

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).