Collection updates

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American Institute of Physics (AIP) Publishing

Agreement duration:The UNSW OA publishing agreement is from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2026 or until the annual publishing cap is reached. A previous two-year agreement was in place during 1 January 2024 - 31 December 2025.

Acceptance date: Eligible articles that have an acceptance date during the term of this agreement from 1 January 2026 - 31 December 2026 are eligible to be published open access.

Summary: The American Institute of Physics (AIP) publish a journal portfolio that covers physical sciences from core topics in physics to areas of chemistry and biology; and from basic science to applied research. With journals on photonics, materials science, plasmas, fluids, mathematical physics, and instrumentation, AIP Publishing supports physical science researchers. This is a capped agreement with an article allowance of 385 across all participating institutions. Once the allowance is used corresponding authors of any additional articles accepted in 2025 may choose to publish articles as "closed access" or to pay an APC for the article to be published open access. More information is available at ESAC details for AIP Publishing. NB: AIP Publishing’s fully Open Access (Gold) journals are not included.

Titles included:2026 AIP Publishing Title list.

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions including UNSW to publish open access in 24 hybrid titles with no author-facing APCs. This includes titles with Australian and New Zealand authorship, such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Information for authors:See the AIP Publishing website for more information. This agreement includes all current UNSW researchers including HDR candidates and must use their UNSW institutional email address (name@unsw.edu.au) to be eligible and to help verify affiliation. Articles may be published open access under a CC BY or CC BY-NC licence type. Page and colour charges may apply. Rapid service fees not included in the agreement.

For journal response times between submission and acceptance you should check the specific journal guidelines for accurate information.

Eligible article types:Research articles, Review articles.

Sharing via repositories: UNSW corresponding authors can comply with the Open Access policy by retaining the rights to the Author Accepted Manuscript and depositing a copy into UNSWorks (via ROS) using a CC BY licence.

How to submit your article for open access publishing:

The UNSW corresponding author should follow the usual article submission process via the publisher website.
On acceptance of the article, the publisher will ask the corresponding author to complete a form (publishing agreement).
On acceptance of the manuscript, the payment system will allow UNSW corresponding authors to choose UNSW as their institution and remove the open access fee. Articles from authors at participating institutions will be published under a CC BY licence.
To comply with the Open Access policy the UNSW corresponding author will need to retain the rights to either the Published Version of Record or Author Accepted Manuscript, and deposit into UNSWorks using a CC BY licence.

Corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses(e.g. Hotmail, Gmail)or email addresses affiliated with other organisations, research centres or institutes.Otherwise they may be ineligible under the terms of this agreement.

*For any queries about this open access publishing agreement please use this short form.*