APS is committed to supporting the transformation to open access and open science while maintaining high-quality peer review and ensuring equity for researchers, to the benefit of the scientific enterprise.
A pioneer in open access publishing, APS launched its first fully open access journal in 1998. In early 2011 APS transformed some of the largest, most-cited, and most-trusted peer-reviewed, primary research titles in physics into hybrid journals by offering authors an option to publish individual articles open access. Since then it has expanded the options it offers authors by launching a number of new hybrid and gold open access titles, including the highest-impact open access journal in physics, Physical Review X (PRX), and the related family of highly selective, open access topical journals, such as PRX Energy, PRX Life, and PRX Quantum.
APS has also been experimenting with Institutional Open Access agreements since 2014. Such agreements facilitate the open access publication of articles submitted by authors affiliated with participating research institutions. For more information please visit our Open Access and Transformative Agreements page.
You may also review information about article publication charges (APCs) for each journal as well as APS's support for researchers in complying with their funders' policies.