UK (Jisc) Open Access Agreement
APS and Jisc have an Open Access Agreement to support UK institutions and authors publishing Open Access in hybrid open access Physical Review journals. The institutions eligible for the agreement are listed below.
UK (Jisc) Open Access Arrangement Terms and Conditions
Agreement Period: Agreement Period: January 1, 2023 - 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
- 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)
Eligible articles may also be posted to open access repositories with a CC-BY license without embargo.
Non-Participating Journals - Authors also may submit to and publish in the following non-participating Open Access journals to be in compliance with the UKRI OA policy.
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:
Author Eligibility Criteria
Eligible Authors are:
- officially affiliated with one of the UK 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 UK 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 arrangement 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.
Articles submitted by corresponding authors affiliated with the following institutions are eligible to be published open access:
- Cardiff University
- Coventry University
- Durham University
- Heriot-Watt University
- Imperial College London
- King's College London
- Lancaster University
- Loughborough University
- Newcastle University
- Queen Mary University of London
- Queen's University Belfast
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Daresbury Laboratory
- Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
- Sheffield Hallam University
- Swansea University
- The Open University
- University College London
- University of Bath
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of East Anglia
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Kent
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Liverpool
- University of Manchester
- University of Nottingham
- University of Oxford
- University of Sheffield
- University of St Andrews
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Sussex
- University of the West of Scotland
- University of Warwick
- University of York
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).