The Higgs will be open access

"I read George Monbiot's piece on the high social, intellectual and financial cost of the academic publishing business with a familiar sense of outrage, shared in most of the follow up letters. That journals charge prohibitive amounts of money for the privilege of reading research funded by others is amazing. Even more amazing is that they are still getting away with it more than 20 years after the web was born. In particle physics, everything worth reading is posted on the arXiv server, which is why I am able to link original articles from my blogs and you are able to read them free. No one I know would consider publishing in a journal which didn't allow this...."