German library consortia (TIB) Open Access Agreement
APS and the TIB have an Open Access Agreement to support German institutions and authors publishing Open Access in hybrid open access Physical Review journals. The institutions eligible for the agreement are listed below.
German library consortia (TIB) Arrangement Terms and Conditions
Agreement Period: January 1, 2025 - December 31, 2028, 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
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.
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 German 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 German institutions 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 German (TIB) institutions
Articles submitted by corresponding authors affiliated with the following institutions are eligible to be published open access:
- Bielefeld University
- Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
- Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
- Chemnitz University of Technology
- Clausthal University of Technology
- Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Fachhochschule Münster
- Ferdinand Braun Institute
- Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH
- Free University of Berlin
- Freiberg University of Mining and Technology
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR))
- German Patent and Trade Mark Office
- GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin
- Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Kiel University
- Leibniz Institute for Crystal Growth
- Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics
- Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden
- Leibniz University Hannover
- Leipzig University
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Mathematical Research Institute of Oberwolfach
- Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
- Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- Paderborn University
- Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics
- Philipps University of Marburg
- Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
- RWTH Aachen
- Saarland University
- Technical University of Berlin
- Technical University of Braunschweig
- Technical University of Darmstadt
- Technical University of Ilmenau
- Technical University of Munich
- Ulm University
- Universität der Bundeswehr München
- University of Bayreuth
- University of Duisburg-Essen
- University of Freiburg
- University of Giessen
- University of Göttingen
- University of Greifswald
- University of Hamburg
- University of Kaiserslautern-Landau
- University of Kassel
- University of Konstanz
- University of Münster
- University of Potsdam
- University of Siegen
- University of Stuttgart
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).
