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Read & Publish Agreements Negotiated by CAUL

AIP Publishing

A wholly owned not-for-profit subsidiary of the American Institute of Physics (AIP), AIP Publishing’s mission is to advance, promote, and serve the physical sciences for the benefit of humanity by empowering researchers and breaking down barriers to open, equitable research communication. Our services, tools, and platforms connect researchers with publications, peers, institutions, and societies across the globe, expanding the reach and impact of their work.

The AIPP Read & Publish agreement has our top 23 journals with options to add for the four newest journals.

Further information on this agreement is available from AIP Publishing.

Key facts

This page was last updated on 4 March 2024.

Cap usage


Participating institutions

The following institutions participate in this agreement:

  • Australian National University
  • Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation
  • Curtin University
  • Deakin University
  • Flinders University
  • Griffith University
  • James Cook University
  • La Trobe University
  • Macquarie University
  • Massey University
  • Monash University
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • RMIT University
  • Swinburne University of Technology
  • University of Adelaide
  • University of Auckland
  • University of Canterbury
  • University of Melbourne
  • University of New England
  • University of New South Wales
  • University of Newcastle
  • University of Otago
  • University of Queensland
  • University of South Australia
  • University of Sydney
  • University of Tasmania
  • University of Technology Sydney
  • University of Waikato
  • University of Western Australia
  • University of Wollongong
  • Victoria University of Wellington
  • Western Sydney University

Authors who do not see their institution listed above should contact library staff to enquire further.


Agreement details

This agreement allows authors from participating institutions to publish in most of AIP Publishing's hybrid journals without the need for any transactional open access article processing charge (APC).

This is a capped agreement. This agreement provides for an allowance of 375 articles by authors from institutions participating in the agreement to be published open access in 2024 with no transactional APCs.

Article eligibility

Articles accepted from 1/1/2024 are eligible to be published open access under this agreement.

Article types

The following article types are eligible for open access under this agreement:

  • research articles
  • review articles
  • conference article
  • perspective

Author eligibility

As defined by the publisher, the eligible author is:

Any author that is part of the faculty, student body, or research organization within the academic institutions who have a license with AIPP under the Read & Publish agreement.

Responsible corresponding authors must include a participating institution as one of their affiliations to benefit from this agreement. 

Authors will be identified as eligible for open access publishing by their:

  • institutional affiliation
  • email address

Responsible corresponding authors must use their institutional email address when submitting an article for publication

Responsible corresponding authors should not use personal email addresses (e.g. Hotmail, Gmail). Doing so may result in delayed approval of the article or the article may not be approved to be published open access under the terms of the agreement. 

Discount schemes

No other APC discounts are offered under this agreement.

Title list

The agreement allows for publishing in most journals. The complete title list is available online. If you wish to publish open access, please check to ensure that your desired journal is included.

Hybrid journals that 'flip' to OA during the course of this agreement will remain available for OA publishing for the duration of the agreement.

Author rights

Articles from authors at participating institutions may be published under the following Creative Commons licenses:

  • CC BY

Authors retain all rights as per the CC license.

Further information about licenses is available on the publisher's website

The Creative Commons licenses allow reuse (some with conditions) while protecting the authors' rights of acknowledgment as authors. 

Article approvals

Article approvals are managed by CAUL via a custom publisher platform.

Other charges

AIP Publishing does not charge additional fees for page and/or colour fees. Authors should always check each journal’s submission guidelines to ensure that they will not be subject to any other fees or charges.


Open access workflow

How to submit your article for open access publishing

The following instructions for authors have been provided by the publisher. Further details are available on the publisher’s website.


Contact details

AIP Publishing

Please email pcr@aip.org for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.

CAUL

Please email consortium@caul.edu.au for questions regarding this agreement. Please include your full name, institution, article title, journal name and DOI (if available), and state the reason for your enquiry.