Pioneering CERN scheme will pay publishers more if they hit open-science targets

Leaders at CERN, Europe’s particle-physics laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, will introduce financial incentives for academic publishers to adopt open science policies as part of the organization’s collective agreement with 11 particle-physics journals.

The current scheme sees those journals publish work from the field openly and at no cost to authors, in exchange for bulk payments. Under the newly launched initiative, CERN will pay more to publishers that adopt polices such as use of public or open peer review and linking research to data sets, and less to those that do not.