Journal of Applied Physics and Physics of Plasmas, two of AIP Publishing’s foremost scholarly publications, are now open access as part of a Subscribe to Open (S2O) pilot program.
The switch to open access (OA) is a result of institutional subscribers renewing their subscriptions and supporting the S2O pilot program. With sufficient support, new volumes are converted to OA under a Creative Commons license for everyone to read and re-use.
For authors, this means the ability to increase the reach and impact of their work by publishing OA in either journal under a Creative Commons license of their choosing without incurring any costs.
Announced in July 2023, AIP Publishing’s S2O pilot program is a demonstration of the publisher’s commitment to equity, accessibility, and open science in scholarly publishing.
The S2O model helps research institutions, funders, and publishers bridge the transition into OA. Under S2O, current subscribers are offered continued access to their publications through the normal subscription process. If enough subscribers renew, that year’s content for those publications is then flipped over to OA. All of this is accomplished without service disruption, additional costs, or extra effort on the part of the community. Subscribers need only to renew their subscriptions normally, and any articles published that year are made OA in perpetuity at no direct cost to authors.
The S2O pilot is far from AIP Publishing’s only exploration into sustainable OA solutions. Other options the publisher makes available include Gold OA, Diamond (sponsored) OA, Author Select, Read and Publish agreements, Research4Life and World Bank waivers and discounts, and post-publication access through CHORUS, scholarly collaboration networks, and deposits in institution and funder repositories.
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