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American Physical Society (APS) - Transformative agreement

PublisherAmerican Physical Society
Term of agreement2025-2028
The agreement is pending formalization; work is proceeding under pre-contractual supply.
Disciplinary areas coveredPhysics
Characteristics of the agreementAccess to the APS journals available and the possibility for authors affiliated with the Scuola Normale who are also corresponding authors to publish open-access articles at no extra cost starting from January 1st, 2026.
Types of articles publishable in open access
  • Regular Articles
  • Letters 
  • Rapid Communications 
  • Reviews
  • Perspectives
  • Short Papers
Journals in which publishing in open access is possibleIn the nine hybrid journals available on the publishing platform.
Workflow for publishing in open access
  • the corresponding author will be identified and recognized on the APS platform as affiliated to the institution (SNS);
  • the author decides whether to publish in open access through the transformative agreement;
  • the affiliation will be checked by the institution;
  • after validation of the affiliation, the article will be published in open access and the author retains copyright to his work.

We strongly invite our affiliated corresponding authors to use the institutional email account when submitting their papers to APS.
The validation of the corresponding author takes into account the date of acceptance of the article on the part of the publisher independently of the date of the first submission.

APCs coverUnlimited availability.
Availability of the APCs for the current yearAPCs available.

Self-archiving mode (Green Open Access)

 

LicenceCC-BY 4.0
Informational supportCRUI Open Access Agreement
For more information or helptrasformativi@sns.it

 

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