| GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| Publisher | AIP Publishing |
| Agreement ID | aip2026ie |
| Agreement labeling | IReL AIP Fusion 2026-2028 |
| Is the agreement document publicly available? | Yes |
| URL | https://irel.ie/open-access/american-institute-of-physics/ |
| Agreement period | 1/1/2026 – 12/31/2028 |
| Consortia / Institution | IReL |
| Country | Ireland |
| COST | |
| How do the costs of the agreement relate to the previous agreement with the publisher? | Agreement costs within the range of the previous spending level |
| Comments on cost development | The Fusion model by design limits the price increase for institutions in the transition from R&P/read-only to Fusion |
| Describe how the cost model has changed from the previous agreement (e.g., move from subscription to R&P / from capped to uncapped / from single APC payments to flat fee, etc.) | Fusion fees are based on a combination of publication history, historic spend and historic usage of licensed content |
| Read-access costs
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is a split of the cost between read access and publishing services defined? |
Yes |
| If a split of the cost between read access and publishing services is defined, what percentage of the overall agreement cost relates to read access? | 20%-50% |
| PUBLISHING-RELATED TERMS | |
| Publication output
What is the approximate number of annual corresponding author publications from your institution/consortium with the publisher (in closed, hybrid and fully OA journals)? |
30 |
| Is the agreement’s provision for OA publishing capped (e.g., limited to a specific number of articles per year) or uncapped? | Uncapped |
| Coverage
Are all journals relevant to your affiliated authors (i.e., journals in which you expect them to publish) eligible for OA publishing under the agreement? |
Yes |
| Are APC-based full open access journals covered by the agreement? | Yes, alongside hybrid titles |
| Article types
Eligible article types |
Primary research article, Review article, Perspective article, Tutorial article |
| Risk sharing
What risk-sharing mechanisms exist in cases of exceeding or not reaching the anticipated number of OA publications under the agreement? |
No risk-sharing mechanism |
| READ ACCESS-RELATED TERMS | |
| Coverage of read access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, is access to all relevant journals required by your users covered by the agreement? |
Yes |
| Perpetual access
If the agreement includes read access to subscription content, are perpetual access (post cancellation/termination) rights included? |
Yes |
| If perpetual access rights to subscription content is included, are there associated fees (for continued access to the platform, local hosting, data delivery, etc.)? | No |
| OA WORKFLOW | |
| Author workflow and verification
The date for articles’ eligibility is based on: |
Acceptance date |
| Describe the mechanisms used by the publisher for matching authors with an eligible institution: | PIDs (Ringgold, ROR, ORCID, etc.) |
| How do consortia or institutions verify author eligibility and approve OA funding? | Via publisher’s dashboard or third-party platform (pre-publication) |
| Does the agreement include mechanisms to correct mistakenly approved, missed, or not approved publications (e.g., retrospective OA conversion of closed articles or refunding paid APCs)? | No |
| Does the publisher’s reporting on publications satisfy the needs of your institution (frequency, metadata fields, data quality, etc.)? | Yes |
| Comments on publisher reporting | Reporting fields and format required are defined in the agreement’s APPENDIX D |
| May authors be charged additional publication fees (such as page charges, article development charges, etc.)? | No |
| How would you assess the practical implementation of the agreement? | Ok |
| PUBLISHING LICENSES | |
| Author’s licenses
Open access license types included |
CC BY mandatory |
| Has the author workflow been customized to direct authors to a certain license (e.g., by making the option for CC BY the preselected default)? | No |
| In addition to the OA publishing provision, does the agreement include mechanisms to make author accepted manuscripts open access? | No |
| OVERALL ASSESSMENT AND COMMENTS | |
| Please share your overall assessment of this agreement with the community. Were negotiation goals (such as open access, cost development, etc.) reached? Which elements would have to be adjusted in future agreements? | IReL is satisfied that the agreement: provides uncapped OA with all AIP publications; at a price deemed reasonable; using a transparent pricing model; and using a model which makes efforts to address institutions’ concerns about the sustainability and global scalability of OA publishing deals. |
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