APS and Max Planck Society Open Access Agreement

The Max Planck Society, or the Max Planck Gesellschaft (MPG), is the international flagship for German science, conducting research in the natural sciences, life sciences and humanities. APS has undertaken a transformative agreement with the Max Planck Society to advance open science and research collaboration.

Read and Publish Agreement Terms and Conditions

Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
Licensee: Max Planck Society (MPG)
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 MPG 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.

Hybrid journals
Agreement Period: January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2030, inclusive of both dates

Gold journals
Agreement Period: January 1, 2026 – December 31, 2030, inclusive of both dates

Non-Participating Journals

Authors affiliated with the Max Planck Society 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:

Author Eligibility Criteria

Eligible Authors are:

officially affiliated with the Max Planck Society or one of its Member Institutions, 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 a confirmed Eligible Author,
list the Max Planck Society and/or one of its Member Institutions 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.

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.

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).

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