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From: CERN Press Office
Date: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 6:42 PM
Subject: CERN Press release: CERN and APS announce partnership for Open
Access
*PRESS RELEASE*
CERN and APS announce partnership for Open Access
Geneva 18 September 2014.
The American Physical Society (APS) and The European Organization for
Nuclear Research (CERN) jointly announce a partnership to make all
CERN-authored articles published in the APS journal collection to be Open
Access. Articles in APS' Physical Review Letters, Physical Review D, and
Physical Review C in 2015 and 2016 will be covered by this agreement. All
physics results from CERN will benefit from this partnership, in
theoretical physics and experimental physics, at the LHC accelerator as
well as other experimental programmes.
*“CERN is a long-time supporter of APS journals, and is committed to Open
Access. This collaboration is a very important step towards global Open
Access for a global discipline”*, said CERN Director General Rolf Heuer.
Although APS is not participating in the current cycle of SCOAP3, the
global Open Access initiative in physics coordinated by CERN, this
agreement demonstrates both organizations’ commitment to Open Access
publishing.
*“It was important to continue our discussions with CERN, while keeping in
mind the financial stability of the APS publishing programme,”* said Mac
Beasley, 2014 APS President. *“This is a fitting solution that advances
physics.”*
Thanks to this partnership, articles will be available free of charge for
everyone to read. Copyright will remain with the authors and permissive
Creative Commons CC-BY licences will allow re-use of the information (e.g.
in books, review articles, conference proceedings and teaching material) as
well as text- and data-mining applications.
CERN and APS have been cooperating for a long time to support APS’s
pioneering Open Access journal Physical Review Special Topics Accelerator
and Beams that publishes articles on topics of technical innovation at CERN
and elsewhere. APS and CERN are committed to continue to work together to
find new ways to collaborate to provide for the widest dissemination of
physics results through global Open Access initiatives.
The American Physical Society is a non-profit membership organization
working to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics through its
outstanding research journals, scientific meetings, and education,
outreach, advocacy and international activities. APS represents 50,000
members, including physicists in academia, national laboratories and
industry in the United States and throughout the world. Society offices are
located in College Park, MD (Headquarters), Ridge, NY, and Washington, DC.
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, operates the world’s
leading laboratory for particle physics. Its business is fundamental
physics, finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works. Founded
in 1954, CERN has become a prime example of international collaboration,
with 21 Member States as of January 2014. Additional nations from around
the globe also contribute to and participate in the research programmes.
CERN operates the global SCOAP3 partnership, a consortium of over 2000
libraries, research organizations and funding agencies in over 36
countries, which has converted to Open Access 10 journals in High-Energy
Physics. The CERN Laboratory sits astride the Franco–Swiss border near
Geneva. Its flagship research facility, the Large Hadron Collider, is
housed in a 27-kilometre tunnel under the plain between Lake Geneva and the
Jura mountains.
*About CERN*
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's
leading laboratory for particle physics. It has its headquarters in Geneva.
At present, its Member States are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech
Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Israel,
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Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Romania is a Candidate for Accession.
Serbia is an Associate Member in the pre-stage to Membership. India, Japan,
the Russian Federation, the United States of America, Turkey, the European
Commission and UNESCO have Observer Status.
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