Author Licenses
Authors in our journals retain copyright while granting AIP Publishing an exclusive license to publish. Our publishing agreement includes a wide range of options to meet funder and employer requirements.
License to Publish
For the journals listed below, AIP Publishing holds exclusive publishing rights unless otherwise indicated within the article:
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Applied Physics Letters
- Applied Physics Reviews
- Biomicrofluidics
- Chaos
- Journal of Applied Physics
- The Journal of Chemical Physics
- Journal of Mathematical Physics
- Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy
- Low Temperature Physics
- Physics of Fluids
- Physics of Plasmas
- Review of Scientific Instruments
- Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data
Open Access Publishing
For the open access journals listed below, copyright to all content remains with the authors, and a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license applies:
- AIP Advances
- APL Bioengineering
- APL Materials
- APL Photonics
- Structural Dynamics
AIP Publishing authors who want to allow open access to their work in our subscription-based journals can choose Author Select, which also uses a CC BY license.
Under the terms of the CC BY license, no permission is needed to reuse, distribute or adapt the article content, but you do need to give attribution to the original source. Please use this format for Creative Commons attribution:
Author names, Journal Title, Vol. #, Article ID #, (Year of publication); licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.