Open Access Publishing Options
Our commitment to open science spans our entire publication portfolio. We publish a suite of Gold Open Access journals, and our Author Select option enables authors to make their paper open access in all our other titles.
Gold Open Access Journals
AIP Publishing’s growing list of peer-reviewed Gold Open Access journals includes:
- AIP Advances
- APL Bioengineering
- APL Energy (coming soon)
- APL Machine Learning (coming soon)
- APL Materials
- APL Photonics
- JASA Express Letters (in partnership with the Acoustical Society of America)
- Matter and Radiation at Extremes (sponsored by China Academy of Engineering Physics)
- Nanotechnology and Precision Engineering (sponsored by Tianjin University)
- Structural Dynamics (in partnership with American Crystallographic Association)
Publication Charges and Gold Open Access Fees
The publication fee for Open Access articles in AIP Advances is $1500 USD. The publication fee for Open Access articles in all other Gold Open Access AIP Publishing titles is $2750 USD.
Article processing charge (APC) for our partner journals varies by society. Article processing charge for JASA Express Letters and information on discounts for members of the Acoustical Society of America can be found here.
Publishing Open Access in our Subscription Journals through Author Select
By electing to participate in Author Select, authors may choose to make their article Open Access. Author Select is available on all AIP Publishing subscription journals. The $3500 USD fee for Author Select articles supports publication and archiving costs.
Read & Publish Agreements
To learn more about Read & Publish Agreements, and find out if your institution is participating, click here.
Article Processing Charge (APC) Refund Policy
AIP Publishing will only refund a previously paid article processing charge (APC) if alternative funding is provided for the open access article. The alternative funding must be received by AIP Publishing prior to issuing a refund. Refunds must be requested within 12 months of the publication date. For more information on how to request a refund for an open access APC please contact us at pcr@aip.org.
Waiver Policy
AIP Publishing is committed to ensuring that authors can publish in Open Access journals regardless of their economic status. As a result, AIP Publishing has a waiver fund to support full or partial waivers for authors who are based in certain countries. Groups A and B of eligible countries are listed below and are identified based on the classification of countries by the Health InterNetwork Access to Research Initiative (Hinari).
In order to make the waiver fund possible, AIP Publishing expects authors outside of the countries in Groups A and B to pay the full article processing charge for their accepted manuscript.
Group A – Countries on the following list will not be charged a publication fee:
| Afghanistan | Grenada | Rwanda |
| Angola | Guinea | Saint Helena |
| Bangladesh | Guinea-Bissau | Saint Lucia |
| Belize | Guyana | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Benin | Haiti | Samoa |
| Bhutan | Kenya | Sao Tome and Principe |
| Burkina Faso | Kiribati | Senegal |
| Burundi | Kyrgyzstan | Sierra Leone |
| Cambodia | Lao People’s Democratic Republic | Solomon Islands |
| Cameroon | Lesotho | Somalia |
| Cabo | Verde | Liberia South Sudan |
| Central African Republic | Madagascar | Sudan |
| Chad | Malawi | Suriname |
| Comoros | Maldives | Syrain Arab Republic |
| Congo | Mali | Tajikistan |
| Cook Islands | Marshall Islands | Timor-Leste |
| Côte d’Ivoire | Mauritania | Togo |
| Democratic People’s Republic of Korea | Micronesia | Tokelau |
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | (Federated States of) Mozambique | Tonga |
| Djibouti | Myanmar | Tuvalu |
| Dominica | Nauru | Uganda |
| Equatorial Guinea | Nepal | Ukraine |
| Eritrea | Nicaragua | United Republic of Tanzania |
| Eswatini | Niger | Vanuatu |
| Ethiopia | Niue | Yemen |
| Gambia | Papau New Guinea | Zambia |
| Ghana | Republic of Moldova | Zimbabwe |
Group B – Countries on the following list will be charged a reduced publication fee: 1500 USD for APL Materials, Structural Dynamics, APL Photonics, and APL Bioengineering and 800 USD for AIP Advances.
| Albania | Georgia | Nigeria |
| Algeria | Guatemala | Republic of North Macedonia |
| Antigua and Barbuda | Guyana | Pakistan |
| Armenia | Hondoras | Palau |
| Azerbaijan | Iraq | Paraguay |
| Belarus | Jamaica | Peru |
| Bolivia (Plurinational State of) | Jordon | Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Kosovo* | Servia |
| Botswana | Lebanon | Seychelles |
| Colombia | Libya | Sri Lanka |
| Cuba | Mauritius | Tunisia |
| Ecuador | Mongolia | Uzbekistan |
| Egypt | Montenegro | Venezuela (Bolivian Republic of) |
| El Salvador | Morocco | Vietnam |
| Fiji | Namibia | West Bank and Gaza Strip |
| Gabon |
*(in accordance with Security Council resolution 1244 (1999)
Making Articles Publicly Accessible After Publication
Green Open Access
AIP Publishing also supports green Open Access, which allows you to self-archive a version of your article in an institutional or subject repository, such as arXiv, immediately upon acceptance.
CHORUS Initiative
AIP Publishing, through participation in the CHORUS initiative, makes publicly available the Accepted Manuscript version of an article in response to government or funder requirements. Accepted Manuscripts are licensed under AIP Publishing’s License to Publish Agreement, unless otherwise mandated and indicated in the article.
Scholarly Collaboration Networks (SCNs)
Scholarly collaboration networks (SCNs) are rapidly growing as an avenue to share scholarly information. We understand that researchers are constantly looking for ways to make meaningful professional connections with the ability share their research and data. AIP Publishing supports the voluntary principles for article sharing on these websites and allows accepted versions of the manuscript to be posted and distributed immediately.