American Institute of Physics (AIP)

- free Open Access publishing in two journals from AIP

From 1 January 2025 to around 10 December 2025, you can publish Open Access free of charge in the two AIP journals: Journal of Applied Physics and Physics of Plasmas. This applies to articles included in the 2025 volume of the journals. 

AIP has announced that these two journals are now Open Access as part of the Subscribe to Open (S2O) publishing pilot. Thus, content published in the 2025 volumes of the journals are available as Open Access, and authors can publish Open Access in these journals for free in the 2025 volumes.
 

The deadline for accepting articles for the current year's volume is usually around 10 December. If the article has not included until 2026, then the author will not know whether an APC is charged or whether the article is published Open Access for free till 1March 2026. In practice, AIP handles this by withholding any APC charges until it is clarified whether an APC needs to be paid or not.

Therefore, it is important that the article is accepted before 10December 2025, if you want to publish it for free as Open Access.

  • Use your DTU e-mail as the corresponding author
  • State DTU as your institutional affiliation (Technical University of Denmark)
  • Select Open Access to publish your article without a publication fee
  • Choose a Creative Commons license
    If it is possible to choose between different CC-licenses, then you are encouraged to select a CC BY 4.0 license which is the least restrictive license in the CC-portfolio.

Any author can freely publish their articles Open Access in the two journals based on the 2025 agreement.

It is always the corresponding author who is responsible for the publication of the article and any related expenses.

The Subscribe to Open program (S20) is based on the concept that enough institutions maintain their subscriptions and as a result assist in supporting the journals. If the journals’ financial goals are met, then the content of the present year will be converted to Open Access, and the authors will be able to publish Open Access for free. If the financial goals are not met, then access to the journals will require payment and the authors will be charged with an APC if they want to publish in the journal.

If the journal’s financial goals are met, the article in the present year will be converted to Open Access (with a CC-BY license).

AIP’s Subscribe to Open (S2O) program

  • Journal of Applied Physics
  • Physics of Plasmas

If the journal’s financial goals are met, the article in the present year will be converted to Open Access (with a CC-BY license). 

All article types are included in the two journals.