The APS Author Choice program was developed to allow researcher authors the ability to provide immediate, open and free access to their work. For a growing number of our authors, providing open access is a condition of funding. For others, they simply want to have their latest findings available to the scientific domain without delay.  Still others believe that paying to make their article free in the first 12 months of publication is not a worthwhile use of their grant monies.

In an effort to meet the needs of these authors and in consultation with our members, we have decided to provide this new option so that authors can elect to release their results at the time that best suits them.  We also hope that by offering this model, we may be able to reduce subscription prices in the future.

The APS is a nonprofit organization devoted to fostering education, scientific research, and dissemination of information in the physiological sciences. From its beginning in 1887 the Society has grown to more than 10,500 members today. APS is a premier not-for-profit publisher in the life sciences community whose publications are among the most respected and frequently cited in the world. APS publishes 13 widely acclaimed scholarly journals and recently posted over 650,000 pages of historical scientific studies online, some dating back to 1898.